The Intimate Strangers Author:Booth Tarkington Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Produced by Erlanger, Dillingham, and Ziegfeld at the New National Theatre, Washington, D. C., October 31, 1921, with the following cast: The Station-master C... more »harles Abbe Ames Alfred Lunt Isabel Miss Burke Florence Frances Howard Johnnie White Glenn Hunter Henry Frank J. Kirk Aunt Ellen Elisabeth Patterson Mattie Clare Weldon chapter{Section 4SYNOPSIS OF SCENES Act I. A railway station. A night in April. During Act I the curtain is lowered to denote a lapse of a few hours. Act II. The living-room at Isabel's. The next morning. Act III. The same. That evening. chapter{Section 5THE INTIMATE STRANGERS ACT I Scene : The rise of the curtain discloses a, darkness complete except for an oblong of faintly luminous blue; this is a large window; and one or two stars are seen through the upper panes. After a moment a door up right is opened and a man enters carrying a lantern. He pushes a switch button near the door and two bulbs, shaded by green painted tin, come to life, right center; two other bulbs, left center, take on similar life simultaneously. These lights hang by wires from the ceiling. The interior revealed is that of a small railway station, a "way station" at an obscure junction in the country. The walls are wainscoted in wood to a height of four feet; above that is plaster painted a tan brown. In the right wall half way up is the ticket window, with a little shelf; the up-and-down sliding inner panel of the window closed. Up to this, in right wall, is a door. In the back wall up right is another door, that which has admitted the man with the lantern. Center in the rear wall is the window. There is a stove, left, with a pipe running to the left wall. The only decorations are some printed 7 posters giving notice of changes in tra...« less