"Good Gracious, Annabelle": A Romantic Farce Comedy in Three ActsS. French, 1922 - 106 pages |
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Good Gracious Annabelle: A Romantic Farce Comedy in Three Acts (Classic Reprint) Clare Kummer No preview available - 2015 |
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ain't ALFRED Alonzo Jennings Annie ARTHUR HOPKINS beautiful bill bledon Bluebell co-respondent Colton Morrisson comedy comes cook cook's corridor course dear East Orange Enter ALEC Enter ANNABELLE Enter JAMES enter L.2 Enter LOTTIE enters L.I. ETHEL Exits L.I. Exits R.2 eyes father fish garden GEORGE WIMBLEDON girl give glad goes L.C. GRACIOUS ANNABELLE GWEN GWENDOLEN Harry Hermit hundred dollars hurry husband somewhere JAMES exits John kitchen Lizzie Lodge look Ludgate lunch Madam Maggie married mean mind morning MURCHISON never night NINGS Page Boy Palm Room parlor maid piano play pocket poor right of table Rising Rock Point SAMUEL FRENCH servants shares of stock sir-I Sits sorry stay stops suppose surprise Swithin tell there's thing thought TITCOMB to-day to-I tray wait West 38th Street What's WICKHAM L.I. Wilbur Wilbur Jennings WILLIAM GOSLING woman
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Page 2 - ... without a valid contract for production first having been obtained from the publisher, confers no right or license to professionals or amateurs to produce the play publicly or in private for gain or charity. In its present form this play is dedicated to the reading public only, and no performance of it may be given except by special arrangement with Samuel French, 28-30 West 38th Street, New York.
Page 15 - I'm in — I mean what is in the envelope. Two shares of the greatest stock in the world, Titcomb. Will give me control of property worth millions. Some idiot borrowed seven hundred dollars on it and forgot to pay up. That's all it cost me. Good business, — eh? TITCOMB (impressed) — Very good, I should say, sir. WIMBLEDON— They think all I do is to spend money. But I'm making it all the time — just as though I needed it. That's the secret of success, Titcomb. TITCOMB — Yes, sir? WIMBLEDON...
Page 57 - ... Looking for the kitchen they come upon Annabelle, and this calls for explanations. RAWSON (to ANNABELLE after ALEC leaves) — You must know Mr. Wimbledon very well— to visit him when he's away? ANNABELLE — Yes, well — I think you see enough of people when you're not visiting them, don't you? And the best time to visit them is when they're away. Where are you stopping, Mr. Rawson? RAWSON — Why, I'm staying here. ANNABELLE — Here? Then you know Mr. Wimbledon? RAWSON — No, I don't....
Page 46 - ... see but you'll have to go down then, Maggie. This is Mrs. Jennings, Mr. Ludgate. I did think of her for parlor maid. Maybe she could do both — Mr. Jennings' wife and parlor-maid, too. JAMES — I see no objections, as long as she sleeps in the Lodge. GWENDOLEN (terrified) — Annabelle! JAMES — Wages, forty, Maggie. GWENDOLEN — But I couldn't sleep in the Lodge. JAMES — Why not? GWENDOLEN (boldly) — My husband snores — JENNINGS — I don't, as a matter of fact. ANNABELLE — I'm sure...
Page 46 - ... chauffeurs. You and I are considered of equal importance with the family, Mrs. Losslethorpe. ANNABELLE — I should think so. What good is the rest of the family if you kill the cook? (ETHEL interrupts.) That's all, Lizzie. ETHEL — I should hope so. (Exit ALFRED and ETHEL into Palm Room.) ANNABELLE — This is the gardener, Mr. Jennings — Alonzo Jennings. JAMES — Are you married, Mr. Jennings? JENNINGS — Married ? JAMES — Mr. Wimbledon likes to have the gardener's wife in the Lodge....
Page 102 - I suppose it means a law suit — perhaps a few years of litigation. WIMBLEDON (walking a few paces and turning) — Rawson — you're a good business man — what would you advise us to do? RAWSON — What I've always advised — what I tried to get your father to do — (After a pause.) Get together. WIMBLEDON — Be partners? RAWSON — Why not? You've only got to look at me — to know that I would keep your secrets as though they were my own. WIMBLEDON — I said that, didn't I? And the fight...
Page 17 - But you can all disappear into the Palm Room and order a beautiful cup — with champagne and apricots and everything very juicy and cold — and beautiful flowers— with ferns to make us think we're in the woods — and beautiful clams, to make us think we're at the seashore." The others have gone to order the lunch when Gosling comes. He is still irritated but Annabelle does not notice that. GOSLING — You were late as usual. Well, what's the trouble? ANNABELLE (lightly) — There isn't any....