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Title: Theft
A Play In Four Acts

Author: Jack London

Release Date: June 25, 2007 [EBook #21936]

Language: English

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THEFT

A Play In Four Acts

By Jack London

1910

ACT I A Room in the House of Senator Chalmers

ACT II Rooms of Howard Knox at Hotel Waltham

ACT III A Room in the Washington House of Anthony Starkweather

ACT IV Same as Act I

Time of Play, To-Day, in Washington, D. C. It Occurs in Twenty
Hours

CHARACTERS

Margaret Chalmers

Howard Knox

Thomas Chalmers

Master Thomas Chalmers

Ellery Jackson Hubbard

Anthony Starkweather

Mrs Starkweather

Connie Starkweather

Felix Dobleman

Linda Davis

Julius Rutland

John Gieford

Matsu Sakari

Dolores Ortega

Senator Dowsett Mrs Dowsett

Housekeeper, Servs

Wife of Senator Chalmers

A Congressman from Oregon

A United States Senator and several times millionaire

Son of Margaret and Senator Chalmers

A Journalist

A great magnate, and father of Margaret Chalmers

His wife

Their younger daughter

Secretary to Anthony Starkweather

Maid to Margaret Chalmers

Episcopalian Minister

Labor Agitator

Secretary of Japanese Embassy

Wife of Peruvian Minister

Agents, etc

ACTORS' DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTERS

Margaret Chalmers. Twenty-seven years of age; a strong, mature
woman, but quite feminine where her heart or sense of beauty are
concerned. Her eyes are wide apart. Has a dazzling smile, which
she knows how to use on occasion. Also, on occasion, she can be
firm and hard, even cynical An intellectual woman, and at the
same time a very womanly woman, capable of sudden tendernesses,
flashes of emotion, and abrupt actions. She is a finished product
of high culture and refinement, and at the same time possesses
robust vitality and instinctive right-promptings that augur well
for the future of the race.

Howard Knox. He might have been a poet, but was turned
politician. Inflamed with love for humanity. Thirty-five years
of age. He has his vision, and m