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 CHARACTERS 
 
 Walter Varnell. 
 Cleo Varnell, his wife. 
 Lydia Varnell, his sister. 
 The Hotel Manager. 
 
 Scene : — A small reception room in a fashionable hotel. 
 
 Copyright, 1915, by H. L. Dale 
 As author and proprietor 
 
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 SCENE. — A small reception-room in a fashionable hotel. 
 There is a telephone. 
 
 Enter Walter Varnell and the two ladies. The ladies are 
 in their best bib and tucker, and carry muffs. 
 
 Walt. This room is empty. You had better wait in here. 
 
 Cleo Varnell {throwing herself into a chair and giving a 
 sigh of perfect content'). Oh, I'm too full for utterance. I just 
 hated to leave that frozen pudding. I'm a teetotaler, but I 
 love frozen pudding. 
 
 Lydia Varnell. Wasn't it good ? I'll say this for you, 
 Walter, you're not stingy. When you do a thing, you do it 
 up brown. 
 
 Walt. Leave it to me. 
 
 Lydia. The check must have been enormous. 
 
 Walt, {pulling out some change). Sixty cents left out of a 
 ten-dollar bill. 
 
 Lydia (sitting down aghast). Nine dollars and forty cents 
 for a luncheon for three people ! 
 
 Cleo. Good heavens, that would buy a ton of coal ! What 
 did we have to eat that cost all that ? 
 
 Walt. Search me ! I didn't look at the bill ; I was 
 ashamed to ; the waiter was so haughty. 
 
 Lydia. Nine dollars and forty cents ! Why, that's robbery, 
 Walter ! 
 
 Walt. Oh, hang the expense. We don't have you with 
 us often, Sis. When we do, we treat you right, don't we, 
 Cleo? 
 
 Cleo. Oh, I suppose so. But I do wish I hadn't left that 
 frozen pudding. They'll probably put it back into the freezer 
 and serve it to some one else. 
 
 Walt. Now, you two girls make up your minds what show 
 you want to see and I'll go and get the tickets. 
 
 3 
 
4 SOUVENIR SPOONS 
 
 Lydia. Let me pay for them, Walter. That will be my 
 part of the treat. 
 
 Walt. Tut, tut, my dear, this is on Cleo and me. 
 
 Cleo. Oh, let her pay for them if she wants to. She's 
 your sister. 
 
 Walt. Look here, wifie, we won't scrap about it; this 
 whole blow is on me, see? Now hurry up and decide what 
 show it is. 
 
 Cleo. Let Lydia choose ; she's company. 
 
 Lydia. No, you choose, Cleo. 
 
 Cleo. I don't know what's in town. 
 
 Walt. Well, here's a paper. We'll look and see. {Takes 
 newspaper out of his pocket.*) Urn — er. Where are the 
 amusements ? Oh, here they are. Want something funny ? 
 
 Lydia. Let's go to a vaudeville show. 
 
 Cleo. I hate vaudeville; it's nothing but hash. Isn't 
 there a musical comedy somewhere ? 
 
 Walt. Montgomery and Stone at the Park. 
 
 Cleo. Let's go there. Montgomery is awfully funny — or 
 is it Stone ? 
 
 Lydia. Stone is the funny one. 
 
 Cleo. Is he? Are you sure? Now, I thought it was 
 Montgomery. Why do they put him first if it's the other way 
 around ? 
 
 Walt. What's the matter with you? Has the pudding 
 gone to your head? Would you like to see them, Lydia? 
 
 Lydia. I'd love to. 
 
 Walt. All right, it's a go. You two can amuse yourselves 
 for five or ten minutes, can't you? 
 
 Lydia. Oh, surely. I've got some postal cards of the hotel 
 that I found down-stairs. I'll address them and send them 
 home. 
 
 (Walt, goes out.) 
 
 Cleo {calling after him). Hurry back! Don't pay over 
 two dollars apiece, Walter. It would be just like him to be 
 silly and buy them of a speculator, or something. Did you 
 say you had some postal cards? Where did you get them? 
 I didn't see them. 
 
 Lydia. They were in a basket near the door as we came in. 
 Just pictures of the hotel, you know. Want one ? 
 
 {As she takes them out of her muff, a spoon drops on the 
 floor.) 
 
SOUVENIR SPOONS 5 
 
 Cleo. What was that ? It looked like a spoon. 
 
 Lydia (trying to conceal it}. Oh, nothing. 
 
 Cleo {running to Lydia). It is a spoon ! Let me see it. 
 Why, Lydia, it is one of the hotel spoons ! 
 
 Lydia {looking around). Ssh ! What of it? I wanted a 
 souvenir. 
 
 Cleo (lowering her voice). Oh, Lydia, I shouldn't have 
 thought you'd dared ! 
 
 Lydia. Why not? No one saw me. I'm making a col- 
 lection. I've got over thirty — all from different hotels and 
 restaurants. 
 
 Cleo. Oh, my ! Isn't it — isn't it stealing? 
 
 Lydia (sharply). Stealing ! Of course not. The hotel 
 people lose a lot of these things — they expect to. If I'd 
 known the bill was to be so big, I'd have taken the table-cloth. 
 I was sadly tempted to take one of those little brass finger 
 bowls. (Cleo starts.) Weren't they the dearest little things ! 
 Russia stuck out all over them. It would have been perfectly 
 easy to tip out the water, and to drop my muff over it — so — 
 like that. 
 
 Cleo. Oh, Lydia ! I— I — 
 
 Lydia. What's the matter ? 
 
 Cleo. Er — er — nothing. But suppose the hotel people 
 should — should miss anything ? 
 
 Lydia. What if they do? They're hardly likely to hold 
 us up and search us. We're respectable, aren't we? (She 
 puts the spoon in the front of her waist.) There, it's out of 
 sight. 
 
 Cleo. It hadn't occurred to me before, but it's awfully like 
 stealing, isn't it ? 
 
 Lydia. Ssh ! Some one will hear you ! You mustn't say 
 a word to Walter, he'd be horrified. 
 
 Cleo. Oh, I won't, I won't ! 
 
 Lydia. Promise. 
 
 Cleo. Oh, I promise. 
 
 Lydia. Now, I'm going to address these cards before he 
 gets back. Do you want one? 
 
 (She sits at a desk and is back to Cleo.) 
 
 Cleo. No, thanks. 
 
 (Takes a little brass finger bowl out of her muff unseen 
 by Lydia, and tries to find a place about her clothing to 
 hide it.) 
 
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 Lydia. Every time I think about that luncheon check, it 
 makes my blood boil. Oh, here is a picture of the hotel 
 dining-room. Wonder what I'll put on that? Oh, I know. 
 ( Writes.) " Den of the Forty Thieves." (Cleo nearly drops 
 the bowl.) Mother won't know what that means, but I can 
 tell her when I get home. Here's one of the main entrance of 
 the hotel. Let's see. {Writes.) *' All hope abandon ye who 
 enter here." The folks will think I've got a grudge against 
 this place. {Clenches her fists.) Nine dollars and forty cents ! 
 (She turns around suddenly and catches Cleo leaning over, 
 still trying to find a place to hide the bowl.) What are you 
 doing ? 
 
 Cleo. Pulling up my stocking. 
 
 Lydia. That reminds me, I have a hole in mine. 
 
 Cleo. What did you say about bowl ? 
 
 Lydia. I said I have a hole in my stocking. I'll have to 
 be careful. Oh, here's Walter, back so soon. Hello, what 
 luck? 
 
 (She gets up as Walt, enters. Cleo, finding no better 
 place than her muff, conceals it there again, unseen by 
 Walt, and Lydia.) 
 
 Walt. Didn't keep you waiting long, did I ? Got the 
 tickets down-stairs. Well, there's nothing doing for Mont- 
 gomery and Stone. I had to get seats for the Broadway. 
 
 Lydia. What are they playing there? 
 
 Walt. Oh, a crook play, " My Lady Raffles." 
 
 Lydia} (^ /Apr )- "My Lady Raffles ! " 
 
 Cleo. I don't want to see that. I don't like the sound of 
 it. I'm sure it's something unpleasant. 
 
 Walt. No, it's a farce. One of the roaring kind. 
 
 Cleo. Couldn't you get anything at all for Montgomery 
 and Stone? 
 
 Walt. Not a thing. All sold out. 
 
 Cleo. Why didn't you try the speculators? 
 
 Lydia. Oh, come, Cleo, be a sport. What do you care 
 what you see as long as it is entertaining. 
 
 Cleo (with meaning). Well, I guess I can stand it if you 
 can. 
 
 {She gets up and puts her muff on a table while she adjusts 
 her hat.) 
 
SOUVENIR SPOONS 7 
 
 Walt. We've got plenty of time to walk. Don't you want 
 to ? We can look in the shop windows on the way. 
 
 Cleo. Oh, yes ; let's. Perhaps Lydia will see some spoons 
 she likes. 
 
 Lydia. That will be fine. {Under her breath.) Cat ! 
 (Cleo looks as if she were going without her muff, and Lydia 
 reaches for it.) Don't forget your muff, Cleo dear. 
 
 Cleo. I wasn't forgetting it, thank you. 
 
 {fust as they are going out The Hotel Manager heads 
 them off.) 
 
 Man. (to Walt.). Pardon me. I am the manager of this 
 hotel. May I speak with you a minute ? 
 
 Walt. Certainly. (To the ladies.) You will excuse me ? 
 
 {They speak apart as the ladies walk away.) 
 
 Cleo {nervously). What can be the matter ? 
 
 Lydia (equally nervous). I'm sure I don't know. Walter 
 seems to be getting hot under the collar. 
 
 Cleo. You don't suppose the hotel people have discovered 
 anything, do you ? 
 
 Lydia. How silly ; of course not. They wouldn't make a 
 fuss about so small a thing. 
 
 Walt, (angrily). It's an insult ! An outrage ! To pen 
 us up here like a lot of thieves ! Search us and be done 
 with it ! 
 
 Man. It is not intended as an insult, neither do we mean to 
 pen you here like thieves. We simply ask you, as a courtesy, 
 to remain in this room until we can locate the guilty person. 
 
 Lydia. Guilty person ! What do you mean ? 
 
 Man. We have just discovered a theft in the dining-room, 
 madame, and we wish no one to enter or leave the hotel until 
 we find the culprit. We have good reason to believe that he, 
 or she, is still on the premises. 
 
 Cleo. But we can't stay ; we are going to the theatre. 
 
 Man. I am sorry to insist — to cause you inconvenience. 
 It will be but a short time I am sure. A taxi is at your dis- 
 posal. 
 
 {He goes out.) 
 
 Walt, {calling after Man.). Why don't you lock us up? 
 Lock us up, I say ! (He storms around.) This is an out- 
 
8 SOUVENIR SPOONS 
 
 rage ! An outrage ! To keep me here like this. Me, a busi- 
 ness man, director in three banks, known from one end of the 
 city to the other ! They shall suffer for this ! I'll sue them 
 for libel ! I'll write a letter to the Tribune / 
 
 Cleo. It seems to me, Walter, that you are mightily con- 
 cerned about yourself. You don't think how unpleasant it is 
 for me. 
 
 Lydia. Well, I think it is a big fuss over nothing. 
 
 Walt. You think it nothing to be detained here, to be 
 under suspicion ? 
 
 Lydia. I mean I think the hotel people are making a great 
 fuss over a very small 
 
 {Realizing that she has said too much, she claps her hand 
 over her mouth.) 
 
 Walt, {turning on her). Small ! Small ! Who told you 
 it was small ? How do you know it is small ? What do you 
 mean? 
 
 (Lydia begins to whimper.) 
 
 Cleo. She means that probably what has been taken is of 
 very small value. 
 
 Walt. How do you know it is of small value? He didn't 
 say what had been stolen. {At "stolen" Lydia bursts into 
 tears.) What's the matter with you, anyway? 
 
 Cleo. She's nervous — excited. 
 
 Walt. What's happened to her to make her nervous? 
 Why should she be excited ? She looks guilty ! 
 
 Lydia (crying louder). Oh ! Oh ! Oh ! 
 
 Walt. What do you two know about this affair ? It be- 
 gins to look mighty suspicious. 
 
 Lydia (crying). Oh! Oh! Walter — I've— I've got what 
 they're looking for. I took it. 
 
 Walt. You've got it ! You took it ! What do you 
 mean ? 
 
 (He takes hold of her wrist.) 
 Lydia (shrieking). Don't ! Don't kill me, Walter ! 
 
 (Cleo tiptoes to the door a?id closes it.) 
 Walt. What do you mean ? Out with it ! 
 
SOUVENIR SPOONS 9 
 
 Lydia. The spoon. Here it is. (She brings forth the 
 spoofi, and then sinks on her knees at his feet,) Don't kill me ! 
 Don't kill me ! 
 
 Walt. You — stole — this — spoon ! 
 
 Cleo. Oh, Walter, she only took it as a souvenir. 
 
 Walt. Souvenir ! Did you take one, too ? 
 
 Cleo. No, I didn't know anything about it until we got up- 
 stairs. Don't be angry, Walter. You'll give it back, won't 
 you, Lydia? 
 
 Lydia {getting upfront the floor). Oh, yes, yes. 
 
 Walt, {covering his face with his hands). My sister a 
 thief! 
 
 Lydia {bursting forth again). Oh ! Oh ! Oh ! 
 
 Cleo (putting her arms about Lydia). Lydia! Lydia! 
 
 Walt. Come away from her, Cleo, come away. You'll 
 contaminate yourself. It makes me shudder to see you together. 
 Oh, the disgrace of it ! I could stand almost anything but that 
 —a thief! 
 
 (He is overcome again.) 
 
 Cleo (patting his arm). Oh, Walter, don't. I am sure it 
 isn't as bad as you think. She isn't mean — wicked ; you know 
 she isn't. 
 
 Walt. My poor little lamb, my dove ! Because you are 
 pure yourself you think the whole world good. 
 
 (Lydia drys her eyes and s?iiffs.) 
 
 Cleo. It was only a teaspoon, Walter — such a little thing ! 
 
 Walt, (shaking his head sadly). Feminine logic ! If she'd 
 take a teaspoon, she'd take a silver service — the principle is the 
 same. Besides this may not be her first offense. For all we 
 know she may have taken a hundred spoons. 
 
 Lydia (crying again). Oh ! Oh ! Oh ! 
 
 Walt. See, she weeps ! A guilty conscience ! Oh, Lydia, 
 this is awful — awful ! I can't understand why you took it. 
 Do you lack spoons ? 
 
 LydIa. No, no, I'll give it back, I'll give it back. 
 
 "Walt. Of course, you must, and shall. (There is a knock 
 at the door.) Hello ! (Enter Man.) Oh, it is you. Well, 
 we have the culprit. My sister has confessed ! 
 
 Man. Confessed ? 
 
 Walt. She took the spoon. 
 
 Cleo. As a souvenir. 
 
10 SOUVENIR SPOONS 
 
 Man. Spoon ? Souvenir ? 
 
 Walt. It will be returned, of course; and I hope the mat- 
 ter can be hushed up. 
 
 Man. But we have the thief in custody down-stairs. It 
 was one of the porters. 
 
 Walt. ) 
 
 Lydia. [• What ! 
 
 Cleo. ) 
 
 Walt. Weren't you looking for a spoon ? 
 
 Man. No, for a lady's purse. 
 
 (The two women sink into chairs.} 
 
 Walt, {after a pause). Well, as long as you know so 
 much, you may as well know more. My sister had the bad taste 
 to take one of your spoons. 
 
 Lydia. ) . 
 
 Cleo. | As a souvenir. 
 
 Man. Oh, yes. You will find, I am sure, that the — er — 
 souvenir was charged on the bill. 
 
 Walt. Charged for on the bill ! 
 
 Man. Yes, the waiters are instructed to charge for any of 
 the table furnishings that may be taken as — as souvenirs. Do 
 you care to see the bill ? 
 
 Walt. Indeed I do care to see the bill. 
 
 Cleo. Oh, let's not bother. Let's take his word for it and 
 get out of the mess as gracefully as possible. 
 
 Lydia. I want to see the bill. I want to see what they're 
 getting for spoons these days. 
 
 Man. (going to telephone). Were you in the main dining- 
 room or in the grill ? 
 
 Walt. In the main room. 
 
 Man. (calling up). Hello. The cashier in the main dining- 
 room, please. (To Walt.) Do you happen to remember the 
 amount of the check ? 
 
 Lydia. Remember the amount of the check ! 
 
 Walt. Around nine dollars. 
 
 Man. Hello. Is that you, Miss Floyd ? This is Mr. 
 Davis. Will you see if you have a check for nine dollars, or 
 thereabouts? (To Walt.) What time were you in the din- 
 ing-room ? 
 
 Walt. About half an hour ago. 
 
 Man. (to Miss Floyd). About half an hour ago. You 
 have ? Will you send it up-stairs ? Yes, to the small reception 
 
SOUVENIR SPOONS II 
 
 room on the second floor. Right away, please. Thank you. 
 (Hangs up receiver.) We have had so many losses, we found 
 that the only way to protect ourselves. 
 
 Walt. And the bills are paid without question? 
 
 Man. (with a smile). As a rule, yes. Once in a while a 
 gentleman will protest, but for the sake of the lady — it is usually 
 a lady who takes — er — souvenirs — he will pay the bill. We try 
 to avoid unpleasant situations. (There is a kfiock at the door, 
 which Man. answers.) Yes, thank you. Here is the bill. 
 (They gather around him.) " Three Manhattan cocktails; 
 
 oysters; er — er " (He runs down the list.) "Frozen 
 
 pudding " Here it is, ''One silver teaspoon — two 
 
 dollars." 
 
 Lydia. Two dollars apiece ! (Looks at the spoon.) Two 
 dollars a dozen ! 
 
 Man. Here, hold on; what's that after the spoon ? "One 
 brass finger bowl, a dollar and a half! " Did you take a finger 
 bowl, too? 
 
 Lydia. I didn't. I didn't. I took only a spoon. 
 
 Man. Perhaps there is a mistake. I will have the waiter 
 come up-stairs. Let's see, you had waiter number five. He is 
 usually very accurate. 
 
 (He starts toward the telephone.) 
 
 g him and speaking in a smai 
 ie — the finger bowl ! 
 
 (She takes it from her muff.) 
 
 \g into a chair). You, too ! 
 ing her fists). Hypocrite ! 
 
 (Man. gives a smile and a shrug.) 
 
 Cleo (stopping him and speaking in a small voice). Please 
 don't. I took the — the finger bowl ! 
 
 Walt, (sinking into a chair). You, too ! 
 Lydia (clenching her fists). Hypocrite ! 
 
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 not come out. Trouble follows, ended by the discovery that the baby did 
 not have scarlet fever after all. Full of life and laughs ; strongly recom- 
 mended. 
 
 Price, 25 cents 
 
 CHARACTERS 
 
 Jean Campbell, the stenographer, engaged to Bert. 
 Priscilla Carter, the newspaper woman, engaged to Ralph. 
 Martha Stearns, the cooking teacher, engaged to Max. 
 Gladys Cushing, the butterfly, engaged to Charlie. 
 Margery Whiting, the bride-to-be, engaged to Billy. 
 Elizabeth Kennedy, independent, not engaged at all. 
 Dr. E. T. Simpson, the physician. 
 And 
 The Voice of Authority, unseen but all-powerful. 
 
 THE COMING OF ANNABEL 
 
 A Comedy in One Act 
 
 By Alice C. Thompson 
 
 Six females. Costumes, modern ; scene, an interior. Plays thirty 
 
 minutes. A group of village gossips, bent "on the slaughter of the char- 
 
 actertof a visitor to the town, are routed and reformed by the example of 
 
 Annabel's charity and amiability. Good character. Clever and effective. 
 
 Price, 15 cents 
 
 THE MISSES PRINGLES* LEAP YEAR 
 
 A Comedy in Two Acts 
 By Amaryllis V. Lord 
 Ten females and the apparition of a man. Costumes, modern ; scenery, 
 unimportant. Plays half an hour. The Misses Barbara, Priscilla and 
 Betsy Pringle, while scorning matrimony in public, have a secret inclina- 
 tion J toward it, and taking advantage of leap year, each, without the 
 knowledge of the others, proposes by letter to Deacon Smith with sur- 
 prising results. Very easy and amusing, requiring no scenery and but 
 little rehearing. 
 
 Price, 15 cents 
 
JL VJ. Pinero's Plays 
 
 Price, 50 0e:its €acb 
 
 Min fHANNFI Play in Four Acts * Six males, five females. 
 "HU'valrillllijij Costumes, modern; scenery, three interiors. 
 Plays two and a half hours. 
 
 THE NOTORIOUS MRS. EBBSMITH Br MR 
 
 males, five females. Costumes, modern; scenery, all interiors. 
 Plays a full evening. 
 
 THF PROFI IPATF Play in Four Acts. Seven males, five 
 1 I1L. I I\V/rLilU/\ 1 Li females. Scenery, three interiors, rather 
 elaborate ; costumes, modern. Plays a full evening. 
 
 THF QrHfini MKTRFQQ Farce in Three Acts. Nine males, 
 inc. 3inUUL.lT1131J\E,tX> seven females. Costumes, mod- 
 ern; scenery, three interiors. Plays a full evening. 
 
 THE SECOND MRS. TANQUERAY gg, ta *2K, A g!S 
 
 females. Costumes, modern; scenery, three interiors. Plays a 
 full evening. 
 
 QWFFT I AVFNnFR Comedy in Three Acts. Seven males, 
 iJTT£i£il Li/WEni/EiIV four females. Scene, a single interior, 
 costumes, modern. Plays a full evening. 
 
 THF THITlSinFPRfll T Comedy in Four Acts. Ten males, 
 inc. inulllSEiIVDUL.1 nine females. Scenery, three interi- 
 ors; costumes, modern. Plays a full evening. 
 
 THF TIIVIF^ Comedy in Four Acts. Six males, seven females. 
 ***Ei UItIEiiJ Scene. a single interior; costumes, modern. Plays 
 a full evening. 
 
 THF WFAKTR QFY Comedy in Three Acts. Eight males, 
 x flEi TT Ei/lIvCIY JLA eight females. Costumes, modern; 
 scenery, two interiors. Plays a full evening. 
 
 A WIFE WITHOUT A SMILE Females, four females! 
 Costumes, modern; scene, a single interior. Plays a full evening. 
 
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 Salter £. pafeer & Company 
 
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 AS Yflll I'iW'-lT Comed y i* 1 F 1 ^ 6 Acts - Thirteen males, four 
 «W 1VU MRU ii females. Costumes, picturesque ; scenery, va- 
 ried. PlayB a full evening. 
 
 C AMU I V I >rama in Five Acts. Nine males, five females. Cos- 
 VfALniLijh tumes, modern ; scenery, varied. Plays a full evening. 
 
 INfiOMAR 1>la y in Flve • A - Cts - Thirteen males, three females. 
 UlUUlTlitfV Scenery varied ; costumes, Greek. Plays a full evening. 
 
 MAHY STUART Tragedy in Five Acts. Thirteen males, four fe- 
 ulAI\I JlUAAl males, and supefnumeraries. Costumes, of the 
 period ; scenery, varied And elaborate. Plays a full evening. 
 
 THE MERCHANT OF VENICE SSSKSS^S gSSS? 
 
 picturesque ; scenery varied. Plays a full evening. 
 
 DlfHEJ lEI] Elay in Five Acts. Fifteen males, two females. Scen- 
 I\lVllLlvIIvl> e fy elaborate ;- costumes of the period. Plays a full 
 evening. 
 
 THP KIVAIS ) 0o m ©dy in Five Acts. Nine males, five females. 
 lilt/ niTALfi? Scenery? varied ; costumes of the period. Plays a 
 full evening. 
 
 SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER SSSOiS tES^'SJ^ 
 
 rled ; costumes of the period. . Plays a full evening. 
 
 TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL 2r%. ta -2?. 
 
 three females. Costumes, picturesque ; scenery, varied. Plays a 
 full evening. 
 
 Sent prepaid on receipt of price by 
 
 Salter $. Rafter & Compatt? 
 
 No. 5 Hamilton Place, Boston, Massachusetts 
 
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