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Title: War Brides: A Play in One Act

Author: Marion Craig Wentworth

Release Date: January 5, 2005 [EBook #14602]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Good-by! good-by!]

WAR BRIDES

_A Play in One Act_

BY

MARION CRAIG WENTWORTH

ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE
PLAY AS PRESENTED BY MME. NAZIMOVA

NEW YORK

THE CENTURY CO.

1915

Copyright, 1915, by

THE CENTURY CO.

Acting rights controlled by

DRAMATISTS' PLAY AGENCY,

145 West 45th Street,

NEW YORK CITY

_Published, February 1915_

TO
MY LITTLE BOY
BRANDON

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Good-by! good-by! _Frontispiece_
FACING PAGE
Arno: You are wanted 42

Hedwig: Franz? }
Amelia: Franz, too } 62

Amelia: No, you must not! You have too
much to live for 66

This play was first produced
on January 25, 1915, at
B.F. KEITH'S PALACE THEATRE,
NEW YORK CITY,
with the following cast:

Hedwig (Joan) Mme. Nazimova
Amelia (Amy) Mary Alden
Mother Gertrude Berkeley
Hoffman (Joseph Kerman) Charles Bryant
Minna Edith Speare
Arno C. Brown
Hertz (Captain Bragg) William Hasson

Peasants, Women and Soldiers.

Time--Present. Place--A War-Ridden Country.

Personal Manager for Madame Nazimova
William F. Muenster

WAR BRIDES

The war brides were cheered with enthusiasm and the churches were
crowded when the wedding parties spoke the ceremony in
concert.--PRESS CLIPPING.

SCENE: _A room in a peasant's cottage in a war-ridden country. A large
fireplace at the right. Near it a high-backed settle. On the