PERSONS
Sir Tristram Sumner … Proprietor and Manager of the Grosvenor
Theatre.
Gervase Sackville … Bishop of St. James's.
Warwick Groom …}
Silas Orchard … } Actors.
Mark Belfry … An American Manager.
Hildreth … Sir Tristram's Secretary.
Abbot … Business Manager.
Salerne … Stage Manager.
Blyth … }
Boulder … } Commissionaires.
Temple … Sir Tristram's Dresser.
Rouse … Call-boy.
Two Doctors
Lady Sumner … Sir Tristram's Wife.
Europa Troop … An Actress.
Actors, Scene-shifters, Property-men.
Scene: London. Time: The Present A month elapses between the third and fourth Acts.
THE THEATROCRAT
ACT I
Scene: Sir Tristram Sumner's study in his house in Piccadilly. Sir Tristram is reading an old letter. When the door opens he puts the letter hastily in his pocket.
Enter Lady Sumner.
Sir T. Martha! You've come to trouble me; your eyes
Are lustreless and evil. Will it end
At all? Will you give over urging death?
Lady S. A visitor.
Sir T. Who is it?