ACT I—
Rise dark, two blue pan lights back of window, two baby spots off left; one focussed on bed and the other on door down r.1. Red fire-escape light shows door r. when opened. Night lamp on table near bed.
ACT II—
Lights full up, white and amber, strip light off door right. Lights straw for sun effect at back.
ACT III—
Blue on back drop. Stage full up, amber and white. Strips off right and left. Large lamp on newell post at foot of stairs. Stage dark at lamp crash.
ACT IV—
Stage dark, blue baby spot for moonlight, through window right. Blue on back drop. Fire glow, half up with lanterns on your foots and borders.
Clarence
Comedy in 4 acts by Booth Tarkington. 5 males, 5 females. 2 interiors. Costumes, modern. Plays 2½ hours.
One of the "five million", Clarence served where he was sent—though it was no further than Texas. As an entomologist he found—on this side of the ocean—no field for his specialty, so they set him to driving mules.
Now, reduced to civil life and seeking a job, he finds a position in the home of one Wheeler, a wealthy man with a family. And because he'd "been in the army" he becomes guide, philosopher and friend to the members of that distracted family group. Clarence's position is an anomolous one. He mends the plumbing, tunes the piano, types—off stage—and plays the saxophone. And around him revolves such a group of characters as only Booth Tarkington could offer. It is a real American comedy, at which the audience ripples with appreciative and delighted laughter.