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Script for one-act play titled “The Leper”Entry/Object ID
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Script for one-act play titled “The Leper”. 15 pages in black and red ink. Front cover reads, “J.E. NASH, STENOGRAPHY NASH TYPEWRITING 1370 BROADWAY Cor. 37th Street, NEW YORK - “THE LEPER”-. Page one reads, “THE LEPER” Dramatic One Act Play By BARTLETT BODER. “Page two reads, “-THE LEPER” – PLACE: The Jordan’s flat in San Francisco. A living room. Door C., and down L. and R. Up L., a bookcase and near it a table and chairs. Up R., in corner a small table with telephone and telephone directory. Down R., a divan. It is night. DISCOVERED: ANNA JORDAN at ri se is siting on divan down R., reading a novel. She is in evening dress. A knock is heard at door C. She sighs impatiently but does not answer. The door is opened and NEIL EVANS enters, also in evening dress. He places his hat covered with his coat on chair to L. of door C. EVANS: From the lively manner in which you answered my knock I thought you might not be in. just incase of defective hearing I suppose. Why is our little California song bird moody? I don’t like to find her that way. ANNA: Please don’t call me your little California songbird. I don’t, don’t like it. NEIL: Our songbird, I said. But you are my little songbird too. I cannot tell a lie.(Sits on arm of divan) ANNA: (Severely) Don’t talk rubbish, Mr. Evans. EVANS: Oh! Ho ho, have you forgotten that my first name is Neil?” Page three reads, “ANNA: Well Neil, then. It’s all the same. I don’t suppose it is necessary to inquire, but just for form’s sake what news it there? Have you found out what has become of my husband? I knew the minute I heard you knock that he hadn’t come. EVANS: I haven’t a word and I haven’t the slightest idea. He wasn’t aboard the boat. ANNA: Well, couldn’t you have telephoned me that? Why did you come? You know how such things look. EVANS: I don’t mind telling you. I felt like seeing you again. There, do you blame me? ANNA: It was because you insisted on going along that I didn’t go meet the boat myself. EVANS: Oh don’t be foolish. Listen here, you. For the last six weeks I’ve taken you to every café and theatre in San Francisco. Every minute of that time you were another man’s wife and you knew it. ANNA: Oh! Disgusting! (She rises and crosses to chair L.) Oh what I wish to know is - where is my husband? I asked you as a friend to find out for me. EVANS: My dear, as a friend I tried to find out. Well the ship docked two hours ago? I got inside the customs lines with the pass I got for us both. I watched with great care and I feel sure your husband was not on the boat. I then obtained a passenger list from a Stewart. Your husband’s name had been printed on the list all right----Lexicon
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Script for one-act play titled “The Leper”