Dorothy Comstock '19
Viola Lillian White '18
Lilina Caroline Goodrich '16
Lela Sylvia Brockway '20
Arianna Margaret Hughes '18
Claudia Janet Lane '18
Clara Jeanette Baker '18
Lucia Ellen Hasbrouck '15
Ladies at the Court of Lorenzo

Grazia Eleanor Ray Broeniman '99
Nurse to Beatrice and Bianca

Giulietta, servant to Bianca Virginia Archibold '17
"Little Snow-White" Gretchen Tonks
"Little Rose-Red" Joy Macracken '36

Leonora Catherine Barr '20
Giuliana Mabel Hastings Humpstone '94
Clara Olive Remington '19
Giovanitta Caroline Curtis Johnson '83
Anna Frances Haldeman Sidwell '84
Eugenia Helen Hoy Greeley '99
Townsmen of Fiori

Eleanora
A little girl, daughter to Leonora

Gilda Ruth Benedict '20
A little girl, sister to Beppo

Adelina, another little girl Maiserie MacCracken '31
Nurse Edith Ward

Pierrot
Harlequin
Pant Aloon
Polichinello
Colombine
Strolling players

Courtiers, Ladies-in-Waiting, Soldiers, Pages, Musicians,
Towns-people, Children

PROLOGUE

[Anselmo and Luigi]

ANSELMO. What think you,--lies there any truth in the tale
The King will wed again?

LUIGI. Why not, Anselmo?
A king is no less lonely than a collier
When his wife dies, And his young daughter there,
For all her being a princess, is no less
A motherless child, and cries herself to sleep
Night after night, as noisily as any,
You may be sure.

ANSELMO. A motherless child loves not,
They say, the second mother. Though the King
May find him comfort in another face,--
As it is well he should--the child, I fancy,
Is not so lonely as she is distraught
With grief for the dead Queen, and will not lightly
Be parted from her tears.

LUIGI. If tales be true,
The woman hath a daughter, near the age
Of his, will be a playmate for the Princess.

CURTAIN

ACT I

Scene 1

[Scene: A garden of the palace at Fiori; four years later.]

[Discovered seated Laura, Franc