Alice's Blighted Profession: A Sketch for Girls

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Produced by Clarity, Heike Leichsenring and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's note: Obvious printer errors have been corrected. Ads for plays originally included at the beginning of the book have been joined to the further ads at the end of the book. ALICE'S BLIGHTED PROFESSION A SKETCH FOR GIRLS By HELEN C. CLIFFORD Copyright, 1919, By FITZGERALD PUBLISHING CORPORATION FITZGERALD PUBLISHING CORPORATION SUCCESSOR TO DICK & FITZGERALD 18 Vesey Street New York City, N. Y. CHARACTERS ALICE A young lawyer DIANA A fashionably dressed society woman BELL A nervous charity worker MISS JOHNICKSTONER A nervous stenographer MISS CHICKENFENCER A vivacious stenographer MRS. BAXTER A haughty society woman MISS WORKER A prayerful salvation-army lassie MARY An excitable suffragette TIME.--To-day. LOCALITY.--New York City. TIME OF PLAYING.--50 minutes. Curtain is dropped between Scene I and II for a few minutes to denote lapse of time. COSTUMES Appropriate to the character portrayed. Alice's Blighted Profession SCENE.--A modern business office. Center door, desk in center covered with paper and letters; four office chairs, telephone, rug, etc., as may be available. DISCOVERED: ALICE seated at desk. ENTER, C.D., DIANA. DIANA. Well, Alice Berning, what do you mean by being indoors on such a beautiful day? Come, put on your wraps, my machine is---- ALICE. Diana, you are a regular steam engine. No, I cannot accept your kind invitation to go for a spin. DIANA. Do you know what brought me here to-day? It was to ask you to accompany us on our tour through the north next week. (Sits on arm of ALICE'S chair) There's a dear. Say you will come. Why, you cannot imagine how disappointed Jack and I will be, not mentioning all our other guests, if you refuse. ALICE. Really, Diana, I am very sorry to have to refuse. But I simply cannot go. Why, look at all this correspondence and no one but myself to answer it. DIANA. Why don't you get a stenographer? Why not advertise? ALICE. Oh, I've done that--I advertised for a stenographer, and, would you believe it, when I came down this morning there were at least twenty-five applicants outside my door clamoring to get in.

Helen C. Clifford

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