The Land of Promise: A Comedy in Four Acts

THE LAND OF PROMISE
By the same Author
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS BY W. S. MAUGHAM
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN. 1922 TO IRENE VANBRUGH
All applications regarding the Performance Rights of this play should be addressed to Mr. R. Golding Bright, 20, Green Street, Leicester Square, London, W.C. 2.
This play was produced on February 26, 1914, at the Duke of York’s Theatre, with the following cast:
The action of the play takes place at Tunbridge Wells, and later in Canada.
Scene: The drawing-room at Miss Wickham’s house in Tunbridge Wells. It is a room in which there is too much furniture. There are armchairs covered with faded chintz, little tables here and there, cabinets containing china, a great many photographs in silver frames, porcelain ornaments wherever there is a vacant space, Chippendale chairs and chairs from the Tottenham Court Road. There are flowers in vases and growing plants. The wall-paper has a pattern of enormous chrysanthemums, and on the walls are a large number of old-fashioned watercolours in gilt frames. There is one door, which leads into the hall; and a French window opens on to the garden. The window is decorated with white lace curtains. It is four o’clock in the afternoon. The sun is streaming through the drawn blinds. There is a wreath of white flowers in a cardboard box on one of the chairs. The door is opened by Kate, the parlour-maid. She is of respectable appearance and of a decent age. She admits Miss Pringle. Miss Pringle is companion to a wealthy old lady in Tunbridge Wells. She is a woman of middle age, plainly dressed, thin and narrow of shoulders, with a weather-beaten, tired face and grey hair.
Kate.
I’ll tell Miss Marsh you’re here, Miss Pringle.