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Title: The Melting-Pot

Author: Israel Zangwill

Release Date: December 18, 2007 [EBook #23893]

Language: English

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WORKS OF ISRAEL ZANGWILL

THE MELTING-POT

THE AMERICAN JEWISH BOOK COMPANY
NEW YORK
1921

THE MELTING-POT
COPYRIGHT, 1909, 1914,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Printed by
THE LORD BALTIMORE PRESS
Baltimore, Md.

TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT

IN RESPECTFUL RECOGNITION OF HIS STRENUOUS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE
FORCES THAT THREATEN TO SHIPWRECK THE GREAT REPUBLIC WHICH
CARRIES MANKIND AND ITS FORTUNES, THIS PLAY IS, BY HIS KIND
PERMISSION, CORDIALLY DEDICATED

_The rights of performing or publishing this play in any country
or language are strictly reserved by the author._

THE CAST

[As first produced at the Columbia Theatre, Washington, on the fifth of
October 1908]

David Quixano WALKER WHITESIDE
Mendel Quixano HENRY BERGMAN
Baron Revendal JOHN BLAIR
Quincy Davenport, Jr. GRANT STEWART
Herr Pappelmeister HENRY VOGEL
Vera Revendal CHRYSTAL HERNE
Baroness Revendal LEONORA VON OTTINGER
Frau Quixano LOUISE MULDENER
Kathleen O'Reilly MOLLIE REVEL
Settlement Servant ANNIE HARRIS

Produced by HUGH FORD

[As first produced by the Play Actors at the Court Theatre, London on
the twenty-fifth of January 1914]

David Quixano HAROLD CHAPIN
Mendel Quixano HUGH TABBERER
Baron Revendal H. LAWRENCE LEYTON
Quincy Davenport, Jr. P. PERCEVAL CLARK
Herr Pappelmeister CLIFTON ALDERSON
Vera Revendal PHYLLIS RELPH
Baroness Revendal GILLIAN SCAIFE
Frau Quixano INEZ BENSUSAN
Kathleen O'Reilly E. NOLAN O'CONNOR
Settlement Servant RUTH PARROTT

Produced by NORMAN PAGE

Act I

_The scene is laid in the living-room of the small home of the