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Good-by! good-by!

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


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
MotherGertrude Berkeley
Hoffman (Joseph Kerman)Charles Bryant
MinnaEdith Speare
ArnoC. 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

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Good-by! good-by!
Arno: You are wanted.
Hedwig: Franz? Amelia: Franz, too.
Amelia: No, you must not! You have too much to live for.


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 largefireplace at the right. Near it a high-backed settle. On the left aheavy oak table and benches. Woven mats on the floor. A door at leftleads into a bedroom. In the corner a cupboard. At the back a widewindow with scarlet geraniums and an open door. A few firearms arestacked near the fireplace. There is an air of homely color and neatnessabout the room.

Through the open door may be seen women stacking grain. Others go bycarrying huge baskets of grapes or loads of wood, and gradually itpenetrates the mind that all these workers are women, aristocrats andpeasants side by side. Now and then a bugle blows or a drum beats in thedistance. A squad of soldiers marches quickly by. There is everywherethe tense atmosphere of unusual circumstance, the anxiety and exc

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