PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
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Produced by Mr. Dion Boucioault at the New Theatre, London, on April 8, 1918, with the following cast:--
BELINDA TREMAYNE .......... _Irene Vanbrugh_. DELIA (her Daughter) ...... _Isabel Elsom_. HAROLD BAXTER ............. _Dion Boucicault_. CLAUDE DEVENISH ........... _Dennis Neilson-Terry_. JOHN TREMAYNE ............. _Ben Webster_. BETTY ..................... _Anne Walden_.
The action takes place in Belinda's country-house in Devonshire at the end of April, the first act in the garden and the second and last acts in the hall
_It is a lovely April afternoon--a foretaste of summer--in_ BELINDA'S _garden_.
BETTY, _a middle-aged servant, is fastening a hammock--its first appearance this year--to a tree down_ L. _In front there is a garden-table, with a deck-chair on the right of it and a straight-backed one to the left. There are books, papers, and magazines on the table_. BELINDA, _of whom we shall know more presently, is on the other side of the open windows which look on to the garden, talking to_ BETTY, _who crosses to_ R. _of hammock, securing it to tree_ C.
BELINDA (_from inside the house_). Are you sure you're tying it up tightly enough, Betty?
BETTY (_coming to front of hammock_). Yes, ma'am; I think it's firm.
Arthur Conan Doyle
