Belasco, David, 1853-1931; Theater -- United States
_The Gypsy Hag_, a fortune-teller C. P. Flockton.
_Mlle. Le Grand_ } Dancers from the { Ruth Dennis.
_Mlle. Guimard_ } Grand Opera { Eleanor Stuart.
_Mme. La Dauphine_--_Marie Antoinette_ at sixteen Helen Hale.
_Marquise de Crenay_ } { Helen Robertson.
_Duchesse D’Aiguillon_ } Ladies { Miss Lyn.
_Princesse Alixe_ } of { Miss Leonard.
_Duchesse de Choisy_ } _King Louis_ { Louise Morewin.
_Marquise de Langers_ } Court { May Montford.
_Comtesse de Marsen_ } { Grace Van Benthuysen.
_Sophie_, a maid Irma Perry.
_Rosalie_, of the Concièrgerie Helen Robertson.
_Cerisette_ Julie Lindsey.
AND
_JEANNETTE VAUBERNIER_, afterwards _La du
Barry_ MRS. LESLIE CARTER.
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Guests of the Fête, Dancers from the Opera, King’s Guardsmen, Monks,
Clowns, Pages, Milliners, Sentries, Lackeys, Footmen, King’s Secret
Police, Sans-Culottes, a Mock King, a Mock Herald, a Drunken Patriot, a
Cocoa Vender, Federals, National Guards, Tricoteuses.
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SYNOPSIS OF SCENES.
Act I.--The Milliner’s Shop in the Rue St. Honoré, Paris.
_JEANNETTE_ TRIMS HATS.
Act II.--(One month later.) _Jeannette’s_ Apartments, adjoining
the Gambling Rooms of the _Marquise de
Quesnoy_ (“La Gourdan”).
“THE GAME CALLED DESTINY.”
Act III.--(A year later.) _Du Barry_ holds a Petit-Lever in
the Palace of Versailles--at noon.
“THE DOLL OF THE WORLD.”
Act IV.--Scene 1. In the Royal Gardens. Before the dawn
of the following morning.
“FOLLY, QUEEN OF FRANCE.”
Scene 2. Within the Tent.
“THE HEART OF THE WOMAN.”
Act V.--(A lapse of years.) During the Revolution.
Scene 1. The Retreat in the Woods of Louveciennes.
“FATE CREEPS IN AT THE DOOR.”
Scene 2. (Five days later.) In Paris again.
“A REED SHAKEN IN THE WIND.”
Scene 3. In Front of the Milliner’s Shop on the
same day.
“Once more we pass this way again,
Once more! ’T is where at first we met.”
* * * * *
Time: Period of King Louis the Fifteenth and after the reign of his
Successor.
Place: Paris, Versailles, and Louveciennes.
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