Name: The Trysting Place; A Farce in One Act
Author: Booth Tarkington
ISBN: 9781397339683

The Trysting Place; A Farce in One Act

By Booth Tarkington 22 Sep, 2019

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Excerpt from The Trysting Place: A Farce in One Act The scene is a room just of the lounge of a hotel in the country. However, this is not a country hotel, but, on the contrary, one of those roast and elaborate houses of entertainment that affect an expensive simplicity in what is called the colonial manner, and ask to be visited - by those financially able to do so - in the general interest of health and the outdoor life. The wall at the back of the stage is broken only by symmetrically spaced pilasters of an ivory color; each of the side walls is broken in the same manner; but here the pilasters help to frame two rather broad entrances, one at the right and one at the left, and beyond these entrances, on both sides, we have glimpses of the two corridors that lead to them. There are a few old prints - or new prints from old plates - upon the walls, and there are ﬂowering plants on stands in the corners. The furniture consists of some chintz-covered easy-chairs, a light wicker settee with a chintz cushion and a valance that reaches the ﬂoor; and there are two wicker tables with a vase, of jonquils upon each of them. In the rear right-hand corner of the room, near the stand of plants, there is a tropical-looking chair. Less

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