LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN. 1922
TO
IRENE VANBRUGH

All applications regarding the Performance Rights of this play should be addressed to Mr. R. Golding Bright, 20, Green Street, Leicester Square, London, W.C. 2.

This play was produced on February 26, 1914, at the Duke of York’s Theatre, with the following cast:

Norah MarshIrene Vanbrugh.
Edward MarshC. V. France.
Gertrude MarshMarion Ashworth.
Frank TaylorGodfrey Tearle.
Reginald HornbyBasil Foster.
Benjamin TrotterGeorge Tully.
Sidney SharpJ. Woodall-Birde.
Emma SharpMary Rorke.
James WickhamAthol Stewart.
Dorothy WickhamNetta Westcott.
Agnes PringleLena Halliday.
Clement WynneCharles Goodwin.
KateMarion Christie Murray.

CHARACTERS

Norah Marsh.
Edward Marsh.
Gertrude Marsh.
Frank Taylor.
Reginald Hornby.
Benjamin Trotter.
Sidney Sharp.
Emma Sharp.
James Wickham.
Dorothy Wickham.
Agnes Pringle.
Clement Wynne.
Kate.

The action of the play takes place at Tunbridge Wells, and later in Canada.

THE LAND OF PROMISE

ACT I

Scene: The drawing-room at Miss Wickham’s house in Tunbridge Wells. It is a room in which there is too much furniture. There are armchairs covered with faded chintz, little tables here and there, cabinets containing china, a great many photographs in silver frames, porcelain ornaments wherever there is a vacant space, Chippendale chairs and chairs from the Tottenham Court Road. There are flowers in vases and growing plants. The wall-paper has a pattern of enormous chrysanthemums, and on the walls are a large number of old-fashioned watercolours in gilt frames. There is one door, which leads into the hall; and a French window opens on to the garden. The window is decorated with white lace curtains. It is four o’clock in the afternoon. The sun is streaming through the drawn blinds. There is a wreath of white flowers in a cardboard box on one of the chairs. The door is opened by Kate, the parlour-maid. She is of respectable appearance and of a decent age. She admits Miss Pringle. Miss Pringle is companion to a wealthy old lady in Tunbridge Wells. She is a woman of middle age, plainly dressed, thin and narrow of shoulders, with a weather-beaten, tired face and grey hair.