The Thirteenth Chair eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 104 pages of information about The Thirteenth Chair.

The Thirteenth Chair eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 104 pages of information about The Thirteenth Chair.

BAYARD VEILLER

London, Samuel French, Ltd.

1922

All applications for a licence to perform this play, either by
professional or amateur companies, must be made to—­

Messrs. Samuel French, Ltd.,
26 Southampton Street,
Strand, London, W.C.2,

or their authorized representatives.

The fee for the representation by amateurs is Five Guineas.

In the event of more than one performance being given by amateurs, the fee for each and every representation subsequent to the first is Four Guineas.  This reduction only applies when the performances are consecutive (evening following evening, or evening following matinee) and at the same theatre or hall.

  Upon payment of the fee, a licence will be issued for the performance
  to take place, and no performance may be given unless this licence has
  been obtained.

  Character costumes and wigs used in the performance of plays contained
  in French’s Acting Edition may be obtained from Messrs. Charles H. Fox,
  Ltd., Acre House, 72 Long Acre, London, W.C.2.

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|| The above mentioned fee is   ||
|| reduced now to three guineas ||
|| each performance.            ||
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Made and Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London.

THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR

Produced at The Duke of York’s Theatre, London, on October the 16th, 1917, with the following cast of characters:—­

Roscoe Crosby                            Mr. Charles Rock
William Crosby                           Mr. Lionel Belcher
Edward Wales                             Mr. Yorke Stephens
BRADDISH Trent                           Mr. Dennis Wyndham
Howard Standish                          Mr Vane Sutton-Vane
Philip Mason                             Mr. Arthur Finn
Pollock                                  Mr Charles Bishop
inspector Donohue                        Mr. James Carew
Sergeant Dunn                            Mr. Frank Harris
Doolan                                   Mr. Denham Charles
Helen O’NEILL                            Miss Hilda Bayley
Mrs. Crosby                              Miss Dorothy Hammon
Mary Eastwood                            Miss Margaret Moffat
Helen Trent                              Miss Ethel Carrington
Elizabeth Erskine                        Miss Grace Darby
Grace Standish                           Miss Gladys Maude
Mme. Rosalie la Grange                   Mrs. Patrick Campbell

The scene throughout the play is the Italian Room in Roscoe Crosby’s House, New York.  The time is evening.  The second act takes place ten minutes later than the first and the third act half an hour later than the second.

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