TREASURER Mr. P. WARREN ASSISTANT TREASURER Mr. NAGLE * * * * *
Doors open at three quarters past 6 o'clock--Performances will commence an half past 7, precisely.
[Footnote A: The text that follows was compared with Lawrence Barrett's copy of the second edition, now in the library of The Players, New York. The title page reads: Plays and Poems: | by | George H. Boker | In two volumes | Vol. I | Second Edition | Boston: | Ticknor and Fields. | MDCCCLVII. | | Boker's copyright, 1856.]
McVicker's Theatre, Chicago, November 6, 1882
MALATESTA, _Lord of Rimini_ Mr. B.G. Rogers. GUIDO DA POLENTA, _Lord of Ravenna_ Mr. F.C. Mosley. LANCIOTTO, _Malatesta's son_ Mr. Lawrence Barrett. PAOLO, _His brother_ Mr. Otis Skinner. PEPÉ,[1] _Malatesta's jester_ Mr. Louis James. CARDINAL, _Friend to Guido_ Mr. Charles Rolfe. RENÉ,[1] _A troubadour_ Mr. Percy Winter. FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, _Guido's daughter_ Miss Marie Wainwright. RITTA, _Her maid_ Miss Rosie Batchelder.
_Lords, Ladies, Knights, Priests, Soldiers, Pages, Attendants, etc._
Grand Opera House, Chicago, August 26, 1901.
MALATESTA, _Lord of Rimini_ Mr. W.J. Constantine. GUIDO DA POLENTA, _Lord of Ravenna_ Mr. E.A. Eberle. LANCIOTTO, _Malatesta's son_ Mr. Otis Skinner. PAOLO, _His brother_ Mr. Aubrey Boucicault. PEPE, _Malatesta's jester_ Mr. William Norris. CARDINAL, _Friend to Guido_ Mr. Frederick von Rensselar. RENE, _A troubadour_ Mr. Fletcher Norton. FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, _Guido's daughter_ Miss Marcia Van Dresser. RITTA, _Her maid_ Miss Gertrude Norman.
_Lords, Ladies, Knights, Priests, Soldiers, Pages, Attendants, etc._ SCENE. _Rimini, Ravenna, and the neighbourhood._ TIME. _About 1300 A.D._
[Footnote 1: In the original edition, the accents in the names of PEPÉ and RENÉ are used only in the Dramatis Personæ, and not in the body of the book.]
SCENE I. _Rimini. The Garden of the Palace. PAOLO and a number of noblemen are discovered, seated under an arbour, surrounded by RENE, and other troubadours, attendants, &c._
PAOLO. I prithee, Rene, charm our ears again With the same song you sang me yesterday. Here are fresh listeners.
RENE. Really, my good lord, My voice is out of joint. A grievous cold--
PAOLO. A very grievous, but convenient cold, Which always racks you when you would not sing.