JERGINS: I saw Lord Pondleburrow wearing a ...
SIR WEBLEY: Wearing what, Jergins?
JERGINS: Wearing one of those billycock hats, Sir Webley.
SIR WEBLEY: Well, well. I suppose they've got to change, but not at that
rate.
JERGINS: No, Sir Webley.
[EXIT, _shaking his head as he goes._
SIR WEBLEY: Well, we must find out about this fellow.
NEEKS: Yes. I'll call Mr. Gleek's attention. He knows all about that
sort of thing.
SIR WEBLEY: Yes, yes. Just ...
[NEEKS _rises and goes some of the way towards_ GLEEK'S _chair._
NEEKS: Er--er----
GLEEK (_looking round_): Yes?
SIR WEBLEY: Do you know anything of a man called Mr. William
Shakespeare?
GLEEK (_looking over his pince-nez_): No!
[_He shakes his head several times and returns to his paper._
CURTAIN.
FAME AND THE POET
_DRAMATIS PERSONAE_
HARRY DE REVES, _a Poet_.
(_This name, though of course of French origin, has
become anglicised and is pronounced_ DE REEVS.)
DICK PRATTLE, _a Lieutenant-Major of the Royal Horse
Marines_.
FAME.
SCENE
_The Poet's rooms in London. Windows in back. A high screen in a
corner._
_Time: February 30th._
_The_ POET _is sitting at a table writing._
[_Enter_ DICK PRATTLE.
PRATTLE: Hullo, Harry.
DE REVES: Hullo, Dick.
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