Hints on Presentation.
This play has been written from mining life and hotel life as the author has actually found it, except that miners employ a very energetic and picturesque profanity which can not be reproduced in a play. One caution is necessary in the characters of “Pay Streak” and the “Rocky Mountain Grouse.” The man is not a clown and the girl is not coarse. Miners are serious people, and however ludicrous their conversation and actions may appear to outsiders, to themselves it is earnestness. A man who will stand up and die in defense of his claim must be an earnest man. The other characters need no special elucidation. Great care must be taken, in the duel scene, to use blank cartridges. Any mistake here may prove real tragedy.
BILL OF THE PLAY.
Act I. The outcast brother. His return. The engagement ring. The terrible mistake.
Act II. Cabin of Rogers & Vance, Gunnison county, Colorado. “There’s a man lookin’ for pard.” The meeting. The duel. Too late.
Act III. Hotel, Indian River, Florida. Two wanderers and a bride and groom. The unexpected meeting. Reconciliation. “Look for the Pay Streak.”
STAGE DIRECTIONS.
R. means right of the stage; C., center; R. C., right center; L., left; 1 E., first entrance; U. E., upper entrance, etc.; D. F., door in flat or back of the stage. The actor is supposed to be facing the audience.
