TRELAWNY OF THE "WELLS" A Comedietta in Four Acts By Arthur W. Pinero 1899 This Play was produced at the Court Theatre, London, on Thursday, January 29th, 1898. [_The Original Cast at the Lyceum Theatre, New York_] [Ill 0000] THEATRICAL FOLK Tom Wrench Ferdinand Gadd James Telfer of the Augustus Colpoys Bagnigge-Wells Rose Trelawny Theatre Avonia Bunn Mrs. Telfer, ( Miss Violet) Imogen Parrott, of the Royal Olympic Theatre O' Dwyer, prompter at the Pantheon Theatre Edward J. Morgan Wm. Courtleigh Geo. C. Boniface Charles W. Butler Mary Mannering Elizabeth Tyree Mrs. Chas. Walcot Hilda Spong Grant Stewart Mr. Denzil Mr. Mortimer Mr. Hunston Miss Brewster of the Pantheon Theatre Thos. Whiffen Louis Albion Mace Greenleaf Adelaide Keim Hallkeeper at the Pantheon Edward H. Wilkinson NON-THEATRICAL FOLK Vice-Chancellor Sir William Gower, Kt. Arthur Gower 4 Clara de Foenix & Charles Walcot Henry Woodruff Helma Nelson Miss Trafalgar Gower, Sir William's sister Ethel Hornick Captain de Foenix, Clara's husband H. S. Taber Mrs. Mossop, a landlady Mrs. Thos. Whiffen Mr. Ablett, a grocer John Findlay Charles, a butler W. B. Royston Sarah, a maid Blanche Kelleher THE FIRST ACT at Mr. and Mrs. Telfer's Lodgings in No. 2 Brydon Crescent, Clerkenwell. May THE SECOND ACT at Sir William Gower's, in Cavendish Square. June. THE THIRD ACT again in Brydon Crescent. December. THE FOURTH ACT on the stage of the Pantheon Theatre. A few days later. PERIOD somewhere in the early Sixties. (1860s) NOTE:--Bagnlgge (locally pronounced Bagnidge) Wells, formerly a popular mineral spring in Islington, London, situated not far from the better remembered Sadler's-Wells. The gardens of Bagnlgge-Wells were at one time much resorted to; but, as a matter of fact, Bagnigge-Wells, unlike Sadler's-Wells, has never possessed a playhouse. Sadler's-Wells Theatre, however, always familiarly known as the "Wells," still exists. It was rebuilt in 1876-77. The costumes and scenic decoration of this little play-should follow, to the closest detail, the mode of the early Sixties, the period, in dress, of crinoline and the peg-top trouser; in furniture, of horsehair and mahogany, and the abominable "walnut -and -rep." No attempt should be made to modify such fashions in illustration, to render them less strange, even less grotesque, to the modern eye. On the contrary, there should be an endeavor to reproduce, perhaps to accentuate, any feature which may now seem particularly quaint and bizarre. Thus, lovely youth should be shown decked uncompromisingly as it was at the time indicated, at the risk (which the author believes to be a slight one) of pointing the chastening moral that, while beauty fades assuredly in its own time, it may appear to succeeding generations not to have been beauty at all. TRELAWNY OF THE "WELLS." THE FIRST ACT.