* _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
original cartoons. There is a good architect's drawing board in
use by a window and a rack containing many rolls of drawings and
prints_.
TED _is sitting on the couch, reading an old book. He wears a once
excellent but now threadbare suit_.
TIPPY _wears shabby old dressing gown, short. He has no trousers
on. He is pressing his pants on an ironing board._
_Each is silent and preoccupied_, KEN _makes a finishing touch with
color brush, then turns his board down to a more vertical position
and backs off, surveying his work_.
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