Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net WORKS OF ISRAEL ZANGWILL THE MELTING-POT THE AMERICAN JEWISH BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK 1921 THE MELTING-POT COPYRIGHT, 1909, 1914, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Printed by THE LORD BALTIMORE PRESS Baltimore, Md. TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN RESPECTFUL RECOGNITION OF HIS STRENUOUS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE FORCES THAT THREATEN TO SHIPWRECK THE GREAT REPUBLIC WHICH CARRIES MANKIND AND ITS FORTUNES, THIS PLAY IS, BY HIS KIND PERMISSION, CORDIALLY DEDICATED _The rights of performing or publishing this play in any country or language are strictly reserved by the author._ THE CAST [As first produced at the Columbia Theatre, Washington, on the fifth of October 1908] David Quixano WALKER WHITESIDE Mendel Quixano HENRY BERGMAN Baron Revendal JOHN BLAIR Quincy Davenport, Jr. GRANT STEWART Herr Pappelmeister HENRY VOGEL Vera Revendal CHRYSTAL HERNE Baroness Revendal LEONORA VON OTTINGER Frau Quixano LOUISE MULDENER Kathleen O'Reilly MOLLIE REVEL Settlement Servant ANNIE HARRIS Produced by HUGH FORD [As first produced by the Play Actors at the Court Theatre, London on the twenty-fifth of January 1914] David Quixano HAROLD CHAPIN Mendel Quixano HUGH TABBERER Baron Revendal H. LAWRENCE LEYTON Quincy Davenport, Jr. P. PERCEVAL CLARK Herr Pappelmeister CLIFTON ALDERSON Vera Revendal PHYLLIS RELPH Baroness Revendal GILLIAN SCAIFE Frau Quixano INEZ BENSUSAN Kathleen O'Reilly E. NOLAN O'CONNOR Settlement Servant RUTH PARROTT Produced by NORMAN PAGE Act I