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Read Ebook: Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea by Mitchell Langdon Elwyn Moses Montrose Jonas Editor
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next PageEbook has 1154 lines and 28284 words, and 24 pagesFOOTNOTES: LYRIC THEATRE REGINALD DeKOVEN, Proprietor SAM S. and LEE SHUBERT , Lessees and Managers NINTH AND LAST WEEK. BEGINNING MONDAY EVENING. JANUARY 14, 1907. Matinee Saturday. Under the Direction of HARRISON GREY FISKE MRS. FISKE --AND-- THE MANHATTAN COMPANY Presenting a Play in Four Acts, Entitled THE NEW YORK IDEA BY LANGDON MITCHELL Cast of Characters. Scene--New York Time--The Present. The production staged by Mr. and Mrs. Fiske. THE NEW YORK IDEA THE PEOPLE. The following is the Cast for the evening performance at the Lyric Theatre, New York, Monday, November 19, 1906. Scene--New York. Time--The Present. Revived in New York at The Playhouse, Tuesday Evening, September 28, 1915, with the following Cast. PHILIP PHILLIMORE Lumsden Hare. GRACE PHILLIMORE Norah Lamison. MRS. PHILLIMORE Eugenie Woodward. MISS HENEAGE Josephine Lovett. MATTHEW PHILLIMORE Albert Reed. WILLIAM SUDLEY John Cromwell. MRS. VIDA PHILLIMORE Mary Nash. SIR WILFRID CATES-DARBY Ernest Lawford. JOHN KARSLAKE Conway Tearle. MRS. CYNTHIA KARSLAKE Grace George. BROOKS Selwyn Joyce. TIM FIDDLER Tracy Barrow. NOGAM G. Guthrie McClintic. THOMAS Richard Clarke. BENSON Anita Wood. THE NEW YORK IDEA GRACE. I never in my life walked so far and found so few people at home. The fact is the nineteenth of May is ridiculously late to be in town. MISS HENEAGE. Thomas, Mr. Phillimore's sherry? THOMAS. The sherry, ma'am. MISS HENEAGE. Miss Phillimore. GRACE. The Dudleys were at home. They wished to know when my brother Philip was to be married, and where and how? MISS HENEAGE. If the Dudleys were persons of breeding, they'd not intrude their curiosity upon you. GRACE. I like Lena Dudley. MRS. PHILLIMORE. Do I know Miss Dudley? GRACE. She knows Philip. She expects an announcement of the wedding. MRS. PHILLIMORE. I trust you told her that my son, my sister and myself are all of the opinion that those who have been divorced should remarry with modesty and without parade. GRACE. I told the Dudleys Philip's wedding was here, to-morrow. MISS HENEAGE. I have spent the afternoon, Mary, in arranging and listing the wedding gifts, and in writing out the announcements of the wedding. I think I have attained a proper form of announcement. Of course the announcement Philip himself made was quite out of the question. However, there is mine. "Mr. Philip Phillimore and Mrs. Cynthia Dean Karslake announce their marriage, May twentieth, at three o'clock, Nineteen A, Washington Square, New York." It sounds very nice. I consider an announcement of the wedding of two divorced persons to be in the nature of an intimate communication. It not only announces the wedding--it also announces the divorce. The person I shall ask counsel of is cousin William Sudley. He promised to drop in this afternoon. GRACE. Oh! We shall hear all about Cairo. MRS. PHILLIMORE. William is judicious. Cousin William will disapprove of the match unless a winter in Cairo has altered his moral tone. THOMAS. Mr. Sudley. How d'ye do, Mary? A very warm May you're having, Sarah. GRACE. Dear Cousin William! MISS HENEAGE. Wasn't it warm in Cairo when you left? SUDLEY. We left Cairo six weeks ago, Grace, so I've had no news since you wrote in February that Philip was engaged. I need not to say I consider Philip's engagement excessively regrettable. He is a judge upon the Supreme Court bench with a divorced wife--and such a divorced wife! GRACE. Oh, but Philip has succeeded in keeping everything as quiet as possible. SUDLEY. No, my dear! He has not succeeded in keeping his former wife as quiet as possible. We had not been in Cairo a week when who should turn up but Vida Phillimore. She went everywhere and did everything no woman should! GRACE. Oh, what did she do? SUDLEY. She "did" Cleopatra at the tableaux at Lord Errington's! She "did" Cleopatra, and she did it robed only in some diaphanous material of a nature so transparent that--in fact she appeared to be draped in moonshine. That was only the beginning. As soon as she heard of Philip's engagement, she gave a dinner in honour of it! Only divorc?es were asked! And she had a dummy--yes, my dear, a dummy!--at the head of the table. He stood for Philip--that is he sat for Philip! Ah! MRS. PHILLIMORE. Dear me! MISS HENEAGE. I disapprove of Mrs. Phillimore. SUDLEY. Of course you do, but has Philip taken to Egyptian cigarettes in order to celebrate my winter at Cairo? GRACE. Those are Cynthia's. SUDLEY. Who is "Cynthia?" Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page |
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