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    The Fool
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    The Fool

    By Channing Pollock

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    The Fool is a classic play by Channing Pollock that was performed on Broadway. A table of contents is included.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781508016441
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      The Fool - Channing Pollock

      THE FOOL

      ………………

      Channing Pollock

      WAXKEEP PUBLISHING

      Thank you for reading. In the event that you appreciate this book, please show the author some love.

      This book is a work of nonfiction and is intended to be factually accurate.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2015 by Channing Pollock

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      THE FOOL

      THE PERSONS

      THE PLACES

      ACT I.

      ACT II.

      ACT III.

      ACT IV.

      The Fool

      By Channing Pollock

      THE FOOL

      A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS

      ACT III FROM THE SELWYN PRODUCTION

      Photograph by White Studio

      THE FOOL

      A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS

      BY

      CHANNING POLLOCK

      "They called me in the public squares

      The fool that wears a crown of thorns."

      The cast of THE FOOL as originally presented by

      Selwyn & Company, at the Times Square Theatre,

      New York, October 23, 1922

      THE FOOL

      ………………

      PRODUCED BY FRANK REICHER

      Scenic Production and Decorations by

      Clifford B. Pember

      THE PERSONS

      (In the order in which they speak)

      And a Number of Persons of Minor Importance

      Stage, screen and amateur rights in this play are owned and controlled by the Author, who may be reached care Selwyn & Company, at the Selwyn Theatre, New York. No performances or public readings may be given without his written consent.

      THE PERSONS

      ………………

      (In the order in which they speak)

      Mrs. Henry Gilliam.

      Dilly Gilliam.

      Mrs. Thornbury.

      Mr. Barnaby.

      Mrs. Tice.

      Jerry Goodkind.

      Rev. Everett Wadham.

      Clare Jewett.

      George F. Goodkind.

      Charlie Benfield.

      Daniel Gilchrist.

      A Poor Man.

      A Servant.

      Max Stedtman.

      Joe Hennig.

      Umanski.

      Grubby.

      Mack.

      Mary Margaret.

      Pearl Hennig.

      And a Number of Persons of Minor Importance.

      THE PLACES

      ………………

      Act I.—The Church of the Nativity.

      Christmas Eve, 1918.

      Act II.—The Goodkinds’ Home.

      November, 1919.

      Act III.—"Overcoat Hall."

      October, 1920.

      Act IV.—Gilchrist’s Room—Upstairs.

      Christmas Eve, 1920.

      The action takes place in New York City.

      ACT I.

      ………………

      Scene: The Church of the Nativity. New York.

      The set, representing only the chancel, is as deep as possible, so that, even when its foreground is brightly illuminated, the detail back of that is lost in shadows. Pierced by three fine stained glass windows, the rear wall looms above the altar, on which the candles are not lighted. In front of that is the sanctuary, and, in front of that, the communion rail, with three steps to the stage. Just right of these steps is a very tall and beautiful Christmas tree. The tree has been expensively trimmed, and has a practical connection for an electric-lighted ornament still to be placed at its top. Down R., a door to the choir room, and, down L., a door to the parish house and the street. These doors are exactly alike. Down L., two folding wooden chairs that have been brought in for temporary use. A tall stepladder L. of the tree, facing front. Down R., two wooden boxes of ornaments, that on top open and half emptied. There is a pile of tissue-wrapped and ribboned packages under the tree, and a general litter of gifts, boxes, and crumpled paper everywhere. The Church of the Nativity is fashionable and luxurious; the effect of the set must be that of a peeping into a building spacious, magnificent, and majestic.

      At Rise: Christmas Eve, 1918. The act begins in bright day-light—about half past three in the afternoon—so that the early winter twilight may have set in before its end. The sun’s rays now come through a stained-glass window above the door L., so that the R. of the stage is bathed in white, the C. in blue, and the L. in a deep straw. Two women and a girl are discovered. Mrs. Henry Gilliam, bending over the box down L., is fat, forty, rich and self-satisfied. Her daughter, Daffodil, commonly called Dilly, perched upon the ladder, is a flapper. As regards her mind, this means that, at twenty, she is wise and witty, cynical and confident, worldly and material beyond her elders. Physically, she is pretty, and, of course, has not hesitated to help out nature wherever she has thought it advisable. Considering what has been spent on her education, she is surprisingly ignorant and discourteous, particularly to her mother, who bores her dreadfully. Leila Thornbury is a divorcee; thirty, smart, good-looking, with something feverish in her face, in her eyes, in her movements. Deliberately attractive to men, she is disliked, in proportion, by women. All three are very expensively dressed. Mrs. Thornbury has laid aside a fur coat on the cost of which twenty families might have lived a year. She is at the end of the stage, concerned with a number of dolls and other toys.

      Mrs. Gilliam

      [Turning with some ornament, on a level with her eyes she observes a generous view of Dilly’s nether limbs]: Dilly, for pity’s sake, pull down your skirt! [As Dilly pays no attention, she continues to Mrs. Thornbury] I don’t know what skirts are coming to!

      Dilly

      They’re not coming to the ground, mother. You can be sure of that!

      Mrs. Gilliam

      What I can’t understand is why our young women want to go around looking like chorus girls!

      Mrs. Thornbury

      Perhaps they’ve noticed the kind of men that marry chorus girls.

      Dilly

      Salesmanship, mother, begins with a willingness to show goods.

      Mrs. Gilliam

      Dilly! Pull down your skirt!

      Dilly

      I can’t! That’s all there is; there isn’t any more!

      Mrs. Thornbury

      [Holding up two dolls]: What are we going to do with these?

      Mrs. Gilliam

      [Despairingly surveying the profusion]: Goodness knows!

      Mrs. Thornbury

      I’ve two engagements before dinner, and I’ve got to go home and undress for the opera.

      Dilly

      I gave up a dance for this.

      Mrs. Gilliam

      A dance at this hour?

      Dilly

      People dance at any hour, mother.

      Mrs. Gilliam

      What do they do it for?

      Dilly

      For something to do. [To Mrs. Thornbury] We’re young and we’ve got to have life and gaiety; haven’t we, Mrs. Thornbury?

      Mrs. Thornbury

      We’ve got to have something. I don’t know what it is, but I know we have to keep going to get it.

      Mrs. Gilliam

      But you all waste your time so dreadfully. I’m busy, too, but my life is given to the service of others.

      Dilly

      What could be sweeter?

      Mrs. Gilliam

      Dilly! Nobody knows better than you that I’ve never had a selfish thought! Mr. Gilliam——

      Dilly

      Of the Gilliam Groceries, Inc.

      Mrs. Gilliam

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