A. E. W. MASON
Copyright, 1910, by Louis Nethersole
Copyright, 1912, by Margaret Angil Hull
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The following is a copy of program of the first performance of GREEN STOCKINGS as produced at the Thirty-ninth Street Theatre, New York, on October 2, 1911:
Liebler and Company
presents
GREEN STOCKINGS
A Comedy in Three Acts
By A. E. W. MASON
CAST OF CHARACTERS
| Colonel J. N. Smith, D.S.O. | H. Reeves Smith |
| William Faraday, J. P. | Stanley Dark |
| Admiral Grice, R. N. | Arthur Lawrence |
| Honorable Robert Tarver | Ivo Dawson |
| James Raleigh | Wallace Widdecombe |
| Henry Steele | Henry Hull |
| Martin | Halbert Brown |
| Celia Faraday | Margaret Anglin |
| Evelyn Trenchard | Mrs. Ruth Holt Boucicault |
| Madge Rockingham | Helen Langford |
| Phyllis Faraday | Gertrude Hitz |
| Mrs. Chisholm Faraday | Maude Granger |
SYNOPSIS OF SCENES
ACT I. Room in Mr. Faraday's House, February 11th. Evening.
ACT II. Same as Act I. Eight months later. About six o'clock.
ACT III. Morning room in Mr. Faraday's house. Evening same day.
DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTERS
Admiral Grice (Retired), a testy old gentleman of about sixty-five, with the manner of an old sea dog, of ruddy complexion, with white hair and whiskers.
William Faraday, a well-preserved man of about sixty-five. Fashionable, superficial and thoroughly selfish.
Colonel Smith, a dignified, dryly humorous man of military bearing, about forty years old.
Robert Tarver, an empty-headed young swell.
Henry Steele and James Raleigh, two young men of about thirty and thirty-five respectively.
Martin, a dignified old family servant.
Celia Faraday, an unaffected woman of twenty-nine, with a sense of humor.
Madge (Mrs. Rockingham) and Evelyn (Lady Trenchard), handsome, well-dressed, fashionable women of twenty-five and twenty-seven respectively.
Phyllis, the youngest sister, a charming and pretty but thoughtlessly selfish girl of twenty.
Mrs. Chisholm Faraday, of Chicago (Aunt Ida), a florid, quick-tempered, warm-hearted woman of fifty or thereabouts.