Belinda

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Produced by Mr. Dion Boucioault at the New Theatre, London, on April 8, 1918, with the following cast:—

BELINDA TREMAYNE … …….

Irene Vanbrugh

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DELIA (her Daughter) … …

Isabel Elsom

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HAROLD BAXTER … ……….

Dion Boucicault

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CLAUDE DEVENISH … ……..

Dennis Neilson–Terry

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JOHN TREMAYNE … ……….

Ben Webster

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BETTY … ………………

Anne Walden

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The action takes place in Belinda's country–house in Devonshire at the end of April, the first act in the garden and the second and last acts in the hall

It is a lovely April afternoon—a foretaste of summer—in BELINDA'S garden.

BETTY, a middle–aged servant, is fastening a hammock—its first appearance this year—to a tree down L. In front there is a garden–table, with a deck–chair on the right of it and a straight–backed one to the left. There are books, papers, and magazines on the table. BELINDA, of whom we shall know more presently, is on the other side of the open windows which look on to the garden, talking to BETTY, who crosses to R. of hammock, securing it to tree C.

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