Chapter I: Front Matter

A. W. Pinero’s Plays

Price, 50 Cents Each

THE AMAZONS

Farce in Three Acts. Seven males, five females. Costumes, modern; scenery, not difficult. Plays a full evening.

THE CABINET MINISTER

Farce in Four Acts. Ten males, nine females. Costumes, modern society; scenery, three interiors. Plays a full evening.

DANDY DICK

Farce in Three Acts. Seven males, four females. Costumes, modern; scenery, two interiors. Plays two hours and a half.

THE GAY LORD QUEX

Comedy in Four Acts. Four males, ten females. Costumes, modern; scenery, two interiors and an exterior. Plays a full evening.

HIS HOUSE IN ORDER

Comedy in Four Acts. Nine males, four females. Costumes, modern; scenery, three interiors. Plays a full evening.

THE HOBBY HORSE

Comedy in Three Acts. Ten males, five females. Costumes, modern; scenery easy. Plays two hours and a half.

IRIS

Drama in Five Acts. Seven males, seven females. Costumes, modern; scenery, three interiors. Plays a full evening.

LADY BOUNTIFUL

Play in Four Acts. Eight males, seven females. Costumes, modern; scenery, four interiors, not easy. Plays a full evening.

LETTY

Drama in Four Acts and an Epilogue. Ten males, five females. Costumes, modern; scenery complicated. Plays a full evening.

THE MAGISTRATE

Farce in Three Acts. Twelve males, four females. Costumes, modern; scenery, all interior. Plays two hours and a half.

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Walter H. Baker & Company
No. 5 Hamilton Place, Boston, Massachusetts

Love and Tea

A Comedy-Drama of Colonial
Times in Two Acts

_Written at the instance of the D. A. R._

By
ANNA PHILLIPS SEE
_Author of “When Women Vote,” etc._

NOTE

The professional and moving picture rights in this play are
strictly reserved and application for the right to produce it
should be made to the author in care of the publishers.
Amateurs may produce it without payment of royalty on
condition that the name of the author appears on all programmes
and advertising issued in connection with such
performances.

BOSTON
WALTER H. BAKER & CO.
1915

Love and Tea

CHARACTERS

MISS LAVINIA BOLTWOOD, _a despotic spinster_.
BETTY BOLTWOOD, _her niece_.
MRS. COWLES, _a neighbor_.
MRS. ADAMS, _a neighbor_.
MRS. STRONG, _the village gossip_.
MANDY, _slave of Miss Boltwood_.
JUDGE INGRAM, _a middle-aged bachelor of mild Tory sentiments_.
WILLIAM DICKINSON, _a fiery young Minuteman_.

SYNOPSIS

ACT I.--Place, the living-room of a comfortable village home.
Time, April 1775, a few days after the Battle of Lexington.
ACT II.--Place, the same.
Time, June 1775, not long after the battle of Bunker Hill.

THE STORY OF THE PLAY

Miss Boltwood, a despotic spinster, is persuaded to join a band of ladies who have sworn to give up tea and all taxed articles till the Revolutionary War is over. The tea habit is too strong for Miss Boltwood and she drinks it secretly. Her niece, Betty, discovers this and uses the information to compel her aunt to consent to her (Betty’s) engagement to the young minuteman, William Dickinson.

Miss Boltwood also has a lover, the Tory, Judge Ingram, whom she has kept dangling for years. When he joins the Patriot cause and she hears the (false) report that he has been arrested as a spy, she champions him and finds that she loves him; she becomes an ardent Patriot also--all this just as he has decided that their _friendship_ is ideal! Mandy, who is a privileged character, furnishes much fun.

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY ANNA PHILLIPS SEE
_As author and proprietor_

_All rights reserved._

Love and Tea