The Friend Of Women And Other Stories - Plot & Excerpts
NELLIE HONE ELIDA RODMAN, her niece ALICE, a maid CAROLINE HONE, Mrs. Hone’s daughter-in-law ALEXANDER HONE, Mrs. Hone’s son WINTHROP DELANCEY MISS EMILY HARCROSSE MISS HARRIET HARCROSSE, Emily’s sister *** SCENE 1: Living room of Mrs. Hone’s apartment on upper Park Avenue, New York. Late on a weekday afternoon, autumn 1937.SCENE 2: Same, one hour later.SCENE 3: Same, five hours later. ACT 1 Scene 1 TIME: Late on a weekday afternoon, autumn 1937 PLACE: The living room of MRS. HONE’s apartment on upper Park Avenue, New York. It is an old building and an old room. In the center is a threshold with double doors opening into the vestibule. At stage R. is a door leading to the dining room, at stage L. to a den. The wall to the left of door C. is covered almost to the ceiling with bookcases, and masses of books, large, old, presumably valuable, are jammed into their shelves, with magazines and papers stuffed on top of them. On top of the bookcase is the marble bust of a Roman emperor and several bronzes, an Antinous, a satyr pursuing a nymph, a chariot, etc.
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