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Chapter 16

The Little Stone House

A Play By George Calderon


Copyright, 1913, by Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.
All rights reserved.

The Little Stone House is founded on a story by the same author, published anonymously some years ago in Temple Bar.

The agents for amateur rights in this play are Messrs. Samuel French, 28 West 38th Street, New York, and Joseph Williams, Ltd., 32 Great Portland Street, London, from whom a license to play it in public must be obtained.

It was first performed for the Stage Society at the Aldwych Theatre, London, January 29, 1911, with the following cast:

Praskóvya, a lodging-house keeper Mrs. Saba Raleigh

Varvára, her servant Miss Eily Malyon

Astéryi, a lodger Mr. Franklin Dyall

Fomá, a lodger Mr. Stephen T. Ewart

Spiridón, a stonemason Mr. Leon M. Lion

A Stranger Mr. O. P. Heggie

A Corporal Mr. E. Cresfan

Produced by Mr. Kenelm Foss.

Scene: Small provincial town in Russia.

Reprinted by permission of, and special arrangement with, Messrs. Sidgwick and
Jackson, Ltd., publishers of the English edition.