THE TRYSTING PLACE



The Trysting Place

A Farce in One Act

By
BOOTH TARKINGTON

New YorkLondon
SAMUEL FRENCH     Samuel French, Ltd.
PublisherPublisher
25 West 45th Street26 Southampton St., Strand

COPYRIGHT, 1923 BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

All rights reserved

The professional stage rights of this play are reserved by theAuthor. The amateur stage rights are held by the Ladies HomeJournal. For permission to produce the play application shouldbe made by professional producers to Mr. Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis,Indiana, and by amateur producers to the Editor ofthe Ladies Home Journal.

Printed in the United States of America


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THE PEOPLE AS THEY COME
INTO THE PLAY

Mrs. Curtis, The Young Woman, twenty-five or perhaps even a little older.

Lancelot Briggs, The Boy, slim and obviously under twenty.

Mrs. Briggs, his mother, a handsome woman of forty-five or fifty.

Jessie, his sister, a pretty girl of about twenty.

Rupert Smith, The Young Man, about twenty-five.

Mr. Ingoldsby, a man of fifty-five or, possibly, sixty.

The Mysterious Voice, male and adult.


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THE TRYSTING PLACE

The scene is a room just off the “lounge” of a hotelin the country. However, this is not a “countryhotel;” but, on the contrary, one of those vastand elaborate houses of entertainment that affectan expensive simplicity in what is called thecolonial manner, and ask to be visited—by thosefinancially able to do so—in the general interestof health and the outdoor life. The wall at theback of the stage is broken only by symmetricallyspaced pilasters of an ivory color; each ofthe side walls is broken in the same manner; buthere the pilasters help to frame two ratherbroad entrances, one at the right and one at theleft, and beyond these entrances, on both sides,we have glimpses of the two corridors that leadto them. There are a few old prints—or newprints from old plates—upon the walls; andthere are flowering plants on stands

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