War Brides: A Play in One Act

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Title: War Brides: A Play in One Act

Author: Marion Craig Wentworth

Release Date: January 5, 2005 [EBook #14602]

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[Illustration: Good-by! good-by!]




WAR BRIDES

_A Play in One Act_

BY

MARION CRAIG WENTWORTH

ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE
PLAY AS PRESENTED BY MME. NAZIMOVA


NEW YORK

THE CENTURY CO.

1915




Copyright, 1915, by

THE CENTURY CO.


Acting rights controlled by

DRAMATISTS' PLAY AGENCY,

145 West 45th Street,

NEW YORK CITY


_Published, February 1915_




TO
MY LITTLE BOY
BRANDON










LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Good-by! good-by! _Frontispiece_
FACING PAGE
Arno: You are wanted 42

Hedwig: Franz? }
Amelia: Franz, too } 62

Amelia: No, you must not! You have too
much to live for 66




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on January 25, 1915, at
B.F. KEITH'S PALACE THEATRE,
NEW YORK CITY,
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Hedwig (Joan) Mme. Nazimova
Amelia (Amy) Mary Alden
Mother Gertrude Berkeley
Hoffman (Joseph Kerman) Charles Bryant
Minna Edith Speare
Arno C. Brown
Hertz (Captain Bragg) William Hasson

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