nd looks at the floor again. The artillery booms like a
thunder peal in the distance. Then the gramophone drowns it with the deep
voices of the monks, a great chorus, singing_ ADESTE, FIDELES! NANKO _dips
his finger in something on the floor and stares at it. A look of horror
comes into his face. He stands with his mouth open, listening._]
It's true!

CAST
of the first performance at the Christmas (1913)
Festival of THE MACDOWELL CLUB
OF NEW YORK CITY

RADA

_A Drama in One Act by Alfred Noyes_

(A Christmas Tragedy of the Balkans, being a
plea for "Peace on earth, good will toward men.")

* * * * *

PERSONS OF THE PLAY

RADA, _wife of the vilage doctor_, Miss Mirzah Cheslir

SUBKA, _her daughter, aged twelve_, Miss Lenore Phelps

ARRAM, } _two hostile soldiers quartered_ Mr. Henry Hull
MICHAEL,} _on her house in time of war_ Mr. Wright Kramer

NANKO, _a half-witted schoolmaster_, Mr. Charles White Whittlesey

FIRST SOLDIER ....... Mr. Charles Douville Coburn

SECOND SOLDIER ...... Mr. Harold Herts

{..... Mr. Charles F. Peters
OTHER SOLDIERS {..... Mr. Harold Butterfield
{..... Mr. W. G. Belew

* * * * *

SCENE: The living-room of a country doctor in the Balkans, in a village
which has just been taken by the enemy.

TIME: Christmas Eve.

Stage Director, Miss Mary Shaw

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