Author: Harry L. Newton

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781330820520

Excerpt from All on Account of Polly: A Comedy in Three Acts "How about you, Marie?" "I'm no foreigner; I'm Irish." "Ah, the rich! The only thing American they'll tolerate about the house is money." Harkins listens to advice. "Grab yourself a pick and shovel. Ye might get a crick in yer back, but it won't be from bowing and scraping to a bunch of Feather-Stones and Chadfields." "Made-in-America" language, habits and things are good enough for me. Why imitate foreigners?" Peter loses his monocle - and other things. "Here, Polly, is the first dollar I ever earned." "There's twenty-eight dollars here, Baldwin." Bajdwin discovers he has had a raise in salary. Pudgy and Tommy from the tenements call. Peter asks for a job - and gets one. Polly and Baldwin are alone. "What's a little thing like a kiss between sweethearts?" The reformation of the Beverly family is complete. "Just a Song at Twilight." At the opening of the play the affairs of the Beverly household have reached a critical stage. Mr. Beverly, a man of large affairs in New York City, is surrounded by two extravagant, luxury loving daughters, a reckless, spendthrift son and a wife who, improvident herself, has spoiled her children from the time they were born. The Beverly family has been spending money faster than the head of the house can earn it. Beverly is beset with creditors who even follow him out to his sumptuous Long Island home and threaten proceedings. He tries to make his family see the necessity of economy and warns them of the inevitable crash impending. Instead of heeding him, however, his warning is greeted with sneers and criticism and they decide that he is an old "grouch." Into this clouded atmosphere of selfishness, deceit and false show comes Polly Perkins, Mr. Beverly's ward and a modest heiress. The Beverly mode of living on Long Island is in decided contrast to the simple New England village life to which she has been accustomed and for a moment she loses her bearings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.