DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTERS

KEN HOLDEN. _A young man about 28 or 29, a graduate of Harvard.
Trained as an architect. But unemployed since his graduation. He is
in love with "Laura." But is very dispirited at his inability to
obtain employment_.

TIPPY SAYRE. _About the same age as Ted. Also a graduate of
Harvard. He also has been unable to find employment. But is a man
of very happy-go-lucky type whom it is hard to dishearten. He is
making a living by washing dogs_.

TED BROOKS. _Age 28. Also a Harvard graduate of the same class as
the others and also unemployed since graduation. He comes of
wealthy parents who lost their money in the market crash. And seems
quite unable to find any work for which he is suited. And has no
special training. He is being partly supported by Kate Allen who is
in love with him_.

MARTIN PETERSON. _About the same age as the others, also a graduate
of Harvard. He is an artist and is making a little money. He is
also a very enthusiastic Communist._

KATE ALLEN. _About the same age as the men. She is a graduate of
Vassar, but although she is working she only earns a small salary,
half of which she gives to Ted, with whom she is in love_.

LAURA STEVENS. _A pretty girl of about the same age as the others.
A graduate of Vassar. She is in love with Ken Holden and is working
at a salary of about $25 a week_.

BISHOP HOLDEN. _A bishop and typical gentleman of his calling. Ken
Holden is his son_.

LUCILLE BROWN.* _A young girl. She is secretary to Stanley
Prescott_.

STANLEY PRESCOTT.* _A successful American business
man. Hard, conservative_.

CASE WORKER. _A middle-aged woman, working as a
home relief investigator_.

MRS. DONOVAN. _A very flamboyant woman of middle
age, fussy and silly type_.

POLICEMAN. _A typical New York policeman_.

* NOTE: These characters are not in the play in case Scene 2,
Act I, is omitted.

CLASS OF '29

ACT I

SCENE I: _It is Saturday afternoon, about one o'clock._

_The room is a large one in an old brown-stone house. The ceiling
is high, the floor ancient. It serves for a sleeping as well as a
living room. Off it at one end is a kitchen, at the other a small
bedroom._

_There is no woman's touch in the place, but in spite of its
dilapidation there is a mellow and intellectual air--lent, perhaps,
by the books and magazines that lie scattered about; some old
college pennants on the wall; also both architectural drawings and