THE PAINTED SWAN
By the same Author.
- THE FIR AND THE PALM
- THE WHOLE STORY
- BALLOONS
THE
PAINTED SWAN
A Play in Three Acts
BY
ELIZABETH BIBESCO
“People don’t escape from one thing to another thing, but from one thing to the same thing.”
LONDON
HUTCHINSON & CO.
Paternoster Row, E.C.4
All Rights Reserved.
Applications regarding performing rights
should be addressed to Mr. J. L. Campbell,
Regency House, Warwick Street.
TO
ANTOINE
The Painted Swan
A Play in Three Acts
by
ELIZABETH BIBESCO
(as produced at the Everyman Theatre, March 16th, 1925).
Characters in order of their appearance:
| Thompson (the Butler) | Harold B. Meade |
| Lord William Cathcart | Felix Aylmer |
| Selina (his daughter) | Elissa Landi |
| Mrs. Martineau | Muriel Pope |
| Mr. Molyneux | Clifford Mollison |
| (By permission of Reandean) | |
| Timothy Carstairs | Robert Harris |
| (By permission of Reandean) | |
| Philip Jordan | Allan Jeayes |
| Lady Emily Cathcart | Margaret Carter |
| Ann (Lady Candover) | Edith Evans |
| Ninian (Lord Candover) | Frank Cellier |
THE PLAY PRODUCED BY NORMAN MACDERMOTT
| [ACT I.] | Candover Hall. |
| [ACT II.] | The Candovers’ house in London. A month later. |
| (The curtain will be lowered during this act to indicate the passing of an hour). | |
| [ACT III.] | Candover Hall. Two days later. |