WHY MARRY?
From a photograph by White Studio.
Helen: You're about the most conceited man I ever knew.
Ernest: How can I help it, when you admire me so?
[Page 94.
WHY MARRY?
(Originally published under the title
"And So They Were Married")
BY
JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS
ILLUSTRATED
PUBLISHED BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Copyright, 1914, 1918, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published October, 1914
New and revised edition published April, 1918
Reprinted September, 1918; February, 1919
[All rights strictly reserved—including
amateur acting rights.]
TO
HARRIET AND JAMES LEES LAIDLAW
WHY MARRY?
A Comedy in Three Acts
New York: Astor Theatre: Produced by Selwyn & Company,
Dec. 25, 1917, under the direction of Roi Cooper Megrue.
The scene is a week-end at a country house not far away; the time,
Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning, and Sunday evening.
THE PEOPLE AT THE HOUSE
(As You Meet Them)
| JEAN, the host's younger sister, who has been brought up to be married and nothing else | LOTUS ROBB |
| REX, an unmarried neighbor, who has not been brought up to be anything but rich | HAROLD WEST |
| LUCY, the hostess, who is trying her best to be "just an old-fashioned wife" in a new-fashioned home, | BEATRICE BECKLEY |
| UNCLE EVERETT, a Judge, who belongs to the older generation and yet understands the new—and believes in divorce | NAT C. GOODWIN |
| COUSIN THEODORE, a clergyman and yet a human being, who believes in everything—except divorce, | ERNEST LAWFORD |
| JOHN, who owns the house and almost every one in it—and does not believe in divorce | EDMUND BREESE |
| HELEN, the host's other sister, whom every one wants to marry, but who doesn't want to marry any one, | ESTELLE WINWOOD |
| ERNEST, a scientist, who believes in neither divorce nor marriage but makes a great discovery | SHELLEY HULLBU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |