Two Blind Beggars and One Less Blind

Two Blind Beggars and One Less Blind Moeller, Philip Derived Text Format to access the structural information conversion Mathias Göbel TextGrid CC-BY-4.0 Lizenzvertrag Philip Moeller, 1880 – 1958 Two Blind Beggars and One Less Blind: A Tragic Comedy in One Act by Philip Moeller as played by the Washington Square Players New York Egmont Arens 21 p. GEORGE GREGORY THE LITTLE GIRL THE THIRD BEGGAR One-act Tragi-Comedy Prose data extraction from source 1918 First performed: 1915

TWO BLIND BEGGARS AND ONE LESS BLIND

was first produced by the Washington Square Players, at the Bandbox Theatre, New York, 1915, with the following cast:

GREGORY, an old blind beggar Edward Goodman GEORGE, another blind beggar Ralph Roeder A THIRD BEGGAR, less blind Walter H. Frankl A LITTLE GIRL Florence Enright

The Scene is a rag-pickers cellar. Five feet above the back of the stage is the level of the sidewalk, where the feet of the people passing can be seen and from 'which a broken stair leads down. The scene is dimly lit by the light from the street. In a corner is an old stove with a few coals turning to ashes. On a box is an oil lamp. Gregory and George are sorting rags . GEORGE

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GEORGE Whining

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They go on quietly working. There is a sound of voices passing the door GEORGE

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GREGORY Throwing a handful of rags at George

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They go on working. Gregory feels about him GREGORY

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A coal drops. He lifts his hand, palm up, in the direction of the stove

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They go on working. Gregory again feels about him GREGORY

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Gregory rolls over on the floor. After a moment George begins to whistle GREGORY Sitting up

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He rolls back on the floor. Georges reaches another bundle GEORGE

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When he lies down Gregory straightens up, as if they were each at either end of a see-saw GREGORY

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Gregory lurches towards him and catches him by the hair GREGORY

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His hand comes down to George's throat GEORGE Trembling

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He rolls the bundle over. There's a scuffle and scrape on the floor

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Gregory unties the cord. George falls to sleep. When the string is unloosened Gregory stretches out his leg and kicks George in the ribs GEORGE Starting up

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George flings himself down again snarling

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GEORGE Sitting upright

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They go on working. Gregory chuckling softly to himself

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GREGORY Exploding with mirth

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GREGORY Fiendishly

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They go on working. Far off a 'whistle blows GEORGE

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His hand stops GREGORY

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They go on sifting the rubbish. Another coal drops in the stove GREGORY

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They are nearing the end of the bundle. Suddenly their bodies straighten and their arms come up together, a dollar bill in their hands

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Their heads come together GREGORY

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GREGORY Attempting to snatch the bill away and shrieking

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GEORGE Whispering

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GREGORY Quickly

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He clutches the bill GEORGE

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He attempts to snatch the bill. They struggle GREGORY

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And then to George

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Suddenly they spring at each other's throats. The bill falls from their hands and tumbles back amid the rags. They sway and slip. They are up again and the fight goes on GEORGE

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They are now behind the stove and gradually they sink to the floor. They have strangled one another. Then there is silence and another coal drops in the stove. A moment later the Third Beggar and the Little Girl come down into the cellar. They step on the last step and sit down THE LITTLE GIRL

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He starts groping about him

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He comes forward and stumbles against the bodies THE LITTLE GIRL

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He again comes forward and this time trips over the outstretched legs of the beggars THE THIRD BEGGAR

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He searches in his pocket, turning out one and then the other THE THIRD BEGGAR

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The Little Girl looks among the rags where the beggars have been sifting. She finds the bill THE LITTLE GIRL

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She brings it to the old man THE THIRD BEGGAR

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He folds it into a sliver

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The Little Girl does so. He lights the paper. In the flicker of light he sees the two dead beggars THE LITTLE GIRL

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THE LITTLE GIRL At the stairs

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The Little Girl goes out. The bill is nearly burnt to a cinder. He looks at the bit left in his hand

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Then as he leans over the two beggars

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