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Title: Five Little Plays

Author: Alfred Sutro

Release Date: December 29, 2004 [EBook #14519]

Language: English

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FIVE LITTLE PLAYS

FIVE LITTLE PLAYS

BY ALFRED SUTRO

BRENTANO
NEW YORK 1922

_Printed in Great Britain
by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh_

CONTENTS

THE MAN IN THE STALLS

A MARRIAGE HAS BEEN ARRANGED....

THE MAN ON THE KERB

THE OPEN DOOR

THE BRACELET

THE MAN IN THE STALLS

A PLAY IN ONE ACT

THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY

HECTOR ALLEN
ELIZABETH ALLEN (BETTY)
WALTER COZENS

_This play was produced
at the Palace Theatre
on October 6, 1911_

THE MAN IN THE STALLS

_The sitting-room of a little flat in Shaftesbury Avenue. At back
is a door leading to the dining-room--it is open, and the
dinner-table is in full view of the audience. To the extreme
right is another door, leading to the hall._

_The place is pleasantly and prettily, though quite
inexpensively, furnished. To the left, at angles with the
distempered wall, is a baby-grand piano; the fireplace, in which
a fire is burning merrily, is on the same side, full centre. To
the right of the door leading to the dining-room is a small
side-table, on which there is a tray with decanter and glasses;
in front of this, a card-table, open, with two packs of cards on
it, and chairs on each side. Another table, a round one, is in
the centre of the room--to right and to left of it are
comfortable armchairs. Against the right wall is a long sofa;
above it hang a few good, water-colours and engravings; on the
piano and the table there are flowers. A general appearance of
refinement and comfort pervades the room; no luxury, but evidence
everywhere of good taste, and the countless feminine touches that
make a room homelike and pleasant._

_When the curtain rises,_ HECTOR ALLEN, _a youngish