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Excerpt from Powder and Patches: A Comedy in Two Acts

When Your Wife's Away (a Farce). Mrs. Busby's Pink Tea. (a Comedietta A Girl of Chicago. A Fair Maid of Florida.

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Excerpt from Powder and Patches: A Comedy in Two Acts

Plot laid in Virginia in the Eighteenth Century, during the War of the American Revolution.

Scene I. - Library. Living room at Glenview, the estate of Mr. Richard Carter, a gentleman of Virginia. To the left of the stage is a colonial couch and a screen is placed back of the couch, concealing a door. A small table containing decanter and glasses stands at back of the stage near the screen. (To the right is a chest of drawers, on top of which are candlesticks, blue plates, pewter platters, etc. At one side of the chest of drawers is a window curtained in white with plants arranged upon the sill. A tall colonial clock is in the background to the right.) To the right of center stands a table with old-fashioned chairs arranged upon either side.

The ladies are costumed in Watteau gowns with powdered hair, the gentlemen in velvets and satins, knickerbockers, white wigs, silk hose and buckled shoes; the two young officers are in costume of the Continental Army.

N. B. - The screen, couch, table, two chairs - window effect - decanter and glasses and candles are necessary to arrangement of room. The chest, clock, platters, etc., are optional, but will add to the picture (if procurable).

Act I.

Voice of Geranium in hall singing.

"Ever since King Jesus set me free
This vain world's been a hell to me."

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.