THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET
Sole Lessee: Mr. Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Managers: Mr. Lewis Waller and Mr. H. H. Morell
January 3rd, 1895
| The Earl of Caversham | Mr. Alfred Bishop. |
| Viscount Goring | Mr. Charles H. Hawtrey. |
| Sir Robert Chiltern | Mr. Lewis Waller. |
| Vicomte de Nanjac | Mr. Cosmo Stuart. |
| Mr. Montford | Mr. Harry Stanford. |
| Phipps | Mr. C. H. Brookfield. |
| Mason | Mr. H. Deane. |
| James | Mr. Charles Meyrick. |
| Harold | Mr. Goodhart. |
| Lady Chiltern | Miss Julia Neilson. |
| Lady Markby | Miss Fanny Brough. |
| Countess of Basildon | Miss Vane Featherston. |
| Mrs. Marchmont | Miss Helen Forsyth. |
| Miss Mabel Chiltern | Miss Maud Millet. |
| Mrs. Cheveley | Miss Florence West. |
FIRST ACT
SCENE
The octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern’s house in Grosvenor Square.
[The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands lady chiltern, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age. She receives the guests as they come up. Over the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with wax lights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French tapestry—representing the Triumph of Love, from a design by Boucher—that is stretched on the staircase wall. On the right is the entrance to the music-room. The sound of a string quartette is faintly heard. The entrance on the left leads to other reception-rooms. mrs. marchmont and lady basildon, two very pretty women, are seated together on a Louis Seize sofa. They are types of exquisite fragility. Their affectation of manner has a delicate charm. Watteau would have loved to paint them.]
mrs. marchmont. Going on to the Hartlocks’ to-night, Margaret?