LUCILLE BROWN.* _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