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A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Melodrama / 3w, 21m
Fulton Oursler, Lowell Brentano
Fulton Oursler and Lowell Brentano
A magician and his assistant are doing a trick on the stage. Suddenly the lights go out. When they go on again, a man, Carrington, is found murdered in the audience. Other characters in the play pop out of the audience: doctors and policemen. Carrington turns out to be an unsavory character and head…
MONSIEUR CHATRAND - tall, good-looking, rather foreign in appearance, and suave in manner. 30-35.ALEXANDER - a slight, boyish figure. He stands rigidly erect, as if in a cataleptic condition. The voice and manner of his speaking are in the themselves weird and uncanny. There is a slow and terror-stricken rhythm in his tone, and that contracts against the calm and strong poise of Chatrand.JOHN CARRINGTON - a man who advertises his prosperity and his importance. About him here is a slightly belligerent air. He is perhaps 55, red-faced, and grey-haired, with a well trimmed, iron grew mustache.BEVERLY LANE - truly beautiful and about her there is an air of wistful sadness. She is not more than 20 years old. She is soft and gentle, and evidently timid of the arrogant man who is her escort. Upon her features there is written a genuine refinement and intelligence.DOCTOR BLACKSTONE - middle-aged physician of distinguished appearance.MRS. WIMBLETON - buxom, flightly, talkative. About 35 or 30.MALONEY - a stage electrician. Age 30.MR. YOUNG - an alert theatre manager. Age 40.SERGEANT SCHMIDT - rather stout and of German extraction. Age 35.BILL DICKINSPECTOR RILEY - a big, dominating plain-clothes officer. Age 50. ESTELLE - a beautiful French girl. TOMMY - a man of Japanese descentOFFICER DOUGHERTYREPORTEROFFICER BURKEOFFICER SIMPSONOFFICER SHAYNEOFFICER MYEROFFICER JONESOFFICER THORNTONDR. STERLINGALBERT HENRY SMITHMAN WITH A GOLD CARDVAUDEVILLIANS, STAGE HANDS, ETC.
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