KATE ALLEN ...................... Helen Morrow LAURA STEVENS ...................... Marjorie Brown BISHOP HOLDEN ...................... Harry Irvine LUCILLE BROWN ...................... Olive Stanton STANLEY PRESCOTT ...................... Edward Forbes A CASE WORKER ...................... Marjorie Dalton MISS DONOVAN ...................... Edna Archer Crawford POLICEMAN ...................... Jon Lormer ACT I SCENE 1. A basement apartment on a Saturday afternoon about one o'clock, Fall, 1935. SCENE 2. Stanley Prescott's office, later the same day. ACT II The same as ACT I, SCENE 1. About 6 P. M., Spring, 1936. ACT III The same. About 10 P. M. This play can be produced without using Scene 2, Act I at all, and has been so produced by both Federal Theatres and nonprofessionals. This reduces the settings required to one. In case this scene is not played, then of course the characters Lucille Brown and Stanley Prescott are also omitted. The omission of this scene requires no alteration of the lines or action of any other part of the play. DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTERS KEN HOLDEN. _A young man about 28 or 29, a graduate of Harvard. Trained as an architect. But unemployed since his graduation. He is in love with "Laura." But is very dispirited at his inability to obtain employment_. TIPPY SAYRE. _About the same age as Ted. Also a graduate of Harvard. He also has been unable to find employment. But is a man of very happy-go-lucky type whom it is hard to dishearten. He is making a living by washing dogs_. TED BROOKS. _Age 28. Also a Harvard graduate of the same class as the others and also unemployed since graduation. He comes of wealthy parents who lost their money in the market crash. And seems quite unable to find any work for which he is suited. And has no special training. He is being partly supported by Kate Allen who is in love with him_. MARTIN PETERSON. _About the same age as the others, also a graduate of Harvard. He is an artist and is making a little money. He is also a very enthusiastic Communist._ KATE ALLEN. _About the same age as the men. She is a graduate of Vassar, but although she is working she only earns a small salary, half of which she gives to Ted, with whom she is in love_. LAURA STEVENS. _A pretty girl of about the same age as the others. A graduate of Vassar. She is in love with Ken Holden and is working at a salary of about $25 a week_. BISHOP HOLDEN. _A bishop and typical gentleman of his calling. Ken Holden is his son_. 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_.