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Title: War Brides: A Play in One Act
Author: Marion Craig Wentworth
Release Date: January 5, 2005 [EBook #14602]
Language: English
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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
This play was first produced
on January 25, 1915, at
B.F. KEITH'S PALACE THEATRE,
NEW YORK CITY,
with the following cast:
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
Peasants, Women and Soldi