Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) _LADY FREDERICK_ _HEINEMANN'S MODERN PLAYS_ 16mo. Each price is 6d paper, or 2s 6d cloth By the same Author _A MAN OF HONOUR_ _JACK STRAW_ _THE PLAYS OF SIR ARTHUR W. PINERO_ Complete Edition Twenty-three Volumes _PLAYS OF HUBERT HENRY DAVIES_ Two Volumes _PLAYS OF C. HADDON CHAMBERS_ Two Volumes _THE PLAYS OF W. E. HENLEY AND R. L. STEVENSON_ Four Volumes Also in One Volume, crown 8vo, buckram, Price 6s _THE COLLECTED WORKS OF HENRIK IBSEN_ Copyright Edition entirely revised by WILLIAM ARCHER Complete in Eleven Volumes, crown 8vo, Price 4s each. _LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN_ _21 Bedford St., W.C._ _LADY FREDERICK_ _A COMEDY_ _In Three Acts_ _BY W. S. MAUGHAM_ _LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN_ _MCMXII_ _Copyright: London William Heinemann 1912_ This play was produced at the Court Theatre on Saturday, October 26, 1907, with the following cast: LADY FREDERICK BEROLLES ETHEL IRVING SIR GERALD O'MARA EDMUND BREON MR. PARADINE FOULDES C. M. LOWNE MARCHIONESS OF MERESTON BERYL FABER MARQUESS OF MERESTON W. GRAHAM BROWN CAPTAIN MONTGOMERIE ARTHUR HOLMES-GORE ADMIRAL CARLISLE E. W. GARDEN ROSE BEATRICE TERRY LADY FREDERICK'S DRESSMAKER FLORENCE WOOD LADY FREDERICK'S FOOTMAN CLAUDE VERNON LADY FREDERICK'S MAID INA PELLY THOMPSON REGINALD EYRE A WAITER HEATH J. HAVILAND _LADY FREDERICK_ _CHARACTERS_ LADY FREDERICK BEROLLES SIR GERALD O'MARA MR. PARADINE FOULDES MARCHIONESS OF MERESTON MARQUESS OF MERESTON ADMIRAL CARLISLE ROSE LADY FREDERICK'S DRESSMAKER LADY FREDERICK'S FOOTMAN LADY FREDERICK'S MAID THOMPSON A WAITER AT THE HOTEL SPLENDIDE TIME: _The Present Day_ ACTS I and II--_Drawing-room at the Hotel Splendide, Monte Carlo._ ACT III--_Lady Frederick's Dressing-Room._ _The Performing Rights of this play are fully protected, and permission to perform it, whether by Amateurs or Professionals, must be obtained in advance from the author's Sole Agent, R. Golding Bright, 20 Green Street, Leicester Square, London, W.C., from whom all particulars can be obtained._ LADY FREDERICK THE FIRST ACT SCENE: _Drawing-room of the Hotel Splendide at Monte Carlo. A large, handsomely furnished room, with doors right and left, and French windows at the back leading to a terrace. Through these is seen the starry southern night. On one side is a piano, on the other a table with papers neatly laid out on it. There is a lighted stove._