[He turns abruptly and goes out. Mrs. Keeney does not appear to notice his departure. Her whole attention seems centered in the organ. She sits with half-closed eyes, her body swaying a little from side to side to the rhythm of the hymn. Her fingers move faster and faster and she is playing wildly and discordantly as the
Curtain falls.]
THE NURSERY MAID OF HEAVEN
A Miracle Play
By Thomas Wood Stevens
Based on a story by Vernon Lee.
Copyright, 1920, by Thomas Wood Stevens.
All rights reserved.
The Nursery Maid of Heaven was first produced by the School of the Drama, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa., on the night of November 14, 1919, with the following cast:
| Sister Benvenuta | Hazel Beck. |
| Sister Grimana | Alicia S. Guthrie. |
| Sister Rosalba | Grey McAuley. |
| The Abbess | Dorothy Rubinstein. |
| The Sister Sacristan | Inez D. R. Hazel. |
| Atalanta Badoer [a novice] | Carolyn McCampbell. |
| Abbe Filosi | Wm. R. Dean. |
| The Puppet Man | Lawrence Paquin. |
| Beelzebubb Satanasso | James S. Church. |
| Scene I: | The Chapter-Room of the Convent of Our Lady of the Rosebush, Cividale. |
| Scene II: | Benvenuta's cell. |
| Scene III: | The Chapter-Room. |