The Little Mother of the Slums

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DUPED A PLAY IN ONE ACT TIME Present. PLACE The palatial residence of Mrs. Ormsby Plunkett, New York City. SCENE Library of residence. Eight o'clock in the evening.CHARACTERS Mrs. Ormsby Plunkett, an arrived social leader in New York's Four Hundred but whose finances have suffered of late. Miss Geraldine...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DUPED A PLAY IN ONE ACT TIME Present. PLACE The palatial residence of Mrs. Ormsby Plunkett, New York City. SCENE Library of residence. Eight o'clock in the evening.CHARACTERS Mrs. Ormsby Plunkett, an arrived social leader in New York's Four Hundred but whose finances have suffered of late. Miss Geraldine Plunkett, the daughter, just out, and whose mother has placed her upon the matrimonial market. Tom Plunkett, brother to Geraldine and an upper classman at Yale. Billy Nevins, a classmate of Tom's and an all around athlete, who is secretly engaged to Geraldine. Butler. AND Toby Barnett, the funny man from the American Music Hall, who assists the young people out of a most distressing situation. PROPERTIES Furniture of a library. A whiskey decanter, box of cigarettes, a cloth covering for piano, a cut glass vase, Venetian vase, a statue of Flying Victory and American Beauty Roses. COSTUMES Geraldine is in a modish frock for a bud. Mrs. Plunkett in elegant evening gown of white and blue. She wears rich jewels and carries a fan. Tom and Billy in evening clothes and Toby in a ridiculous costume from the theater. Duped DISCOVERED Tom and Geraldine. (Geraldine speaks.) Geraldine But Tom, mother is determined that I shall marry Lancelot Bergamo. Oh you must help me. What shall I do (Sobs in her voice, ) Tom Well it's a shame, sis. An outrage But haven't you told mother what a freak he is? Geraldine Everything. But Lancelot's mother is ace-high at Newport and Palm Beach and has fixed it all up with mother. And mother has found out that he receives millions on his wedding day, so that settled it Tom But sis, have you told mother what villainous habits he has and how he was cut out by all our fello..