A Comedy in Three Acts
New York: Astor Theatre: Produced by Selwyn & Company,
Dec. 25, 1917, under the direction of Roi Cooper Megrue.
The scene is a week-end at a country house not far away; the time,
Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning, and Sunday evening.
THE PEOPLE AT THE HOUSE
(As You Meet Them)
| JEAN, the host's younger sister, who has been brought up to be married and nothing else | LOTUS ROBB |
| REX, an unmarried neighbor, who has not been brought up to be anything but rich | HAROLD WEST |
| LUCY, the hostess, who is trying her best to be "just an old-fashioned wife" in a new-fashioned home, | BEATRICE BECKLEY |
| UNCLE EVERETT, a Judge, who belongs to the older generation and yet understands the new—and believes in divorce | NAT C. GOODWIN |
| COUSIN THEODORE, a clergyman and yet a human being, who believes in everything—except divorce, | ERNEST LAWFORD |
| JOHN, who owns the house and almost every one in it—and does not believe in divorce | EDMUND BREESE |
| HELEN, the host's other sister, whom every one wants to marry, but who doesn't want to marry any one, | ESTELLE WINWOOD |
| ERNEST, a scientist, who believes in neither divorce nor marriage but makes a great discovery | SHELLEY HULL (By arrangement with George C. Tyler) |
| THE BUTLER | RICHARD PITMAN |
| THE FOOTMAN | WALTER GOODSON |
ADVANCE NOTICE
BY THE AUTHOR
One afternoon shortly before the New York "opening" of this comedy a most estimable lady sat down to make me a cup of tea.
"Now, do tell me, what is your play about?" she inquired with commendable enthusiasm. For, being a true woman, she had early achieved the becoming habit of letting members of the superior sex talk about themselves.
"'Why Marry?'" said I, "tells the truth about marriage."
"Oh, why," she expostulated, "why write unpleasant plays?"
"But it is not 'unpleasant.'"