Plays of the 47 workshop : second series . Radcliffe playwrights. Instead, itwill busy itself with foreign drama not likely to beseen on the professional stage by its Erasmus Mont anus of Holberg and Fameand the Poet of Lord Dunsany it started success-fully, last December, on its new policy. The pub-lication of this volume marks, then, the mergingof the two series, of The 47 Workshop and theHarvard Dramatic Club plays. The Workshopwill continue to print its plays from time to time,as the demand for them persists and the standardset by the volumes already published can be main-tai
Plays of the 47 workshop : second series . Radcliffe playwrights. Instead, itwill busy itself with foreign drama not likely to beseen on the professional stage by its Erasmus Mont anus of Holberg and Fameand the Poet of Lord Dunsany it started success-fully, last December, on its new policy. The pub-lication of this volume marks, then, the mergingof the two series, of The 47 Workshop and theHarvard Dramatic Club plays. The Workshopwill continue to print its plays from time to time,as the demand for them persists and the standardset by the volumes already published can be main-tained. GEO. P. BAKER. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTSMarch, 1920 TORCHES A PLAY IN ONE ACT BY KENNETH RAISBECK CHARACTERS GlSMONDA ALESSANDROPIETRO M ADO N X A GlU LIA Two NEGRO BOYS Originally produced February 5, 1920, by The 47 Work-shop. Copyright, 1920, by Kenneth Raisbeck. Permissionfor amateur or professional performances of any kind mustfirst be obtained from The 47 Workshop, Harvard College,Cambridge, Mass. Moving Picture rights TORCHES SCENE i1 yirc upper terrace walled on two sidesby a low parapet, on the third - - the right - - bya side elevation of the castle which rises blank savefor one door; this door stands open and a rec-tangle of gold light from within stretches beforeit. Over the parapet are seen the tops of cypresstrees and Lombardy poplars; beyond loom cone-shaped hills; the deep night sky is pricked withinnumerable stars. Three pillars of differentheights rise from the parapet; each is hung withgarlands of trailing flowers and crowned with amarble figure. At the back the parapet is cutinto by two broad low steps which admit to ashallow curving balcony; this jutting balcony isa kind of look-out. The tessellated pavement ofthe terrace is laid with thick Turkey rugs. To theright stands a stone bench. To the left, under arich canopy with curtains at back and side, atable is set; lamps and torches depending fromthe standards of this canopy spill a brilliant
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