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is a copy of the program of the original production, in New York City, May 15, 1936:
The Popular Price Theatre
FEDERAL THEATRE WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION
PRESENTS
CLASS OF '29
A new play by
ORRIE LASHIN and MILO HASTINGS
staged by
LUCIUS MOORE COOK
Settings designed under the supervision of
TOM ADRIAN CRACRAFT
Entire production under the personal supervision of
EDWARD GOODMAN
CAST OF CHARACTERS
(in the order in which they speak)
KEN HOLDEN ...................... Jan Ullrich
TIPPY SAYRE ...................... Allen Nourse
TED BROOKS ...................... Ben Starkie
MARTIN PETERSON ...................... Robert Bruce
KATE ALLEN ...................... Helen Morrow
LAURA STEVENS ...................... Marjorie Brown
BISHOP HOLDEN ...................... Harry Irvine
LUCILLE BROWN ...................... Olive Stanton
STANLEY PRESCOTT ...................... Edward Forbes
A CASE WORKER ...................... Marjorie Dalton
MISS DONOVAN ...................... Edna Archer Crawford
POLICEMAN ...................... Jon Lormer

ACT I
SCENE 1. A basement apartment on a Saturday afternoon about one o'clock, Fall, 1935.
SCENE 2. Stanley Prescott's office, later the same day.
ACT II
The same as ACT I, SCENE 1. About 6 P. M., Spring, 1936.
ACT III
The same. About 10 P. M.
This play can be produced without using Scene 2, Act I at all, and has been so produced by both Federal Theatres and nonprofessionals.
This reduces the settings required to one. In case this scene is not played, then of course the characters Lucille Brown and Stanley Prescott are also omitted. The omission of this scene requires no alteration of the lines or action of any other part of the play.

DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTERS
KEN HOLDEN. A young man about 28 or 29, a graduate of Harvard. Trained as an architect. But unemployed since his graduation. He is in love with "Laura." But is very dispirited at his inability to obtain employment.
TIPPY SAYRE. About the same age as Ted. Also a graduate of Harvard. He also has been unable to find employment. But is a man of very happy-go-lucky type whom it is hard to dishearten. He is making a living by washing dogs.
TED BROOKS. Age 28. Also a Harvard graduate of the same class as the others and also unemployed since graduation. He comes of wealthy parents who lost their money in the market crash. And seems quite unable to find any work for which he is suited. And has no special training. He is being partly supported by Kate Allen who is in love with him.
MARTIN PETERSON. About the same age as the others, also a graduate of Harvard. He is an artist and is making a little money. He is also a very enthusiastic Communist.
KATE ALLEN. About the same age as the men. She is a graduate of Vassar, but although she is working she only earns a small salary, half of which she gives to Ted, with whom she is in love.
LAURA STEVENS. A pretty girl of about the same age as the others. A graduate of Vassar. She is in love with Ken Holden and is working at a salary of about $25 a week.
BISHOP HOLDEN. A bishop and typical gentleman of his calling. Ken Holden is his son.
LUCILLE BROWN.* A young girl. She is secretary to Stanley Prescott.
STANLEY PRESCOTT.* A successful American business man. Hard, conservative.
CASE WORKER. A middle-aged woman, working as a home relief investigator.
MRS. DONOVAN. A very flamboyant woman of middle age, fussy and silly type.
POLICEMAN. A typical New York policeman.
* NOTE: These characters are not in the play in case Scene 2, Act I, is omitted.

CLASS OF '29
ACT I
SCENE I: It is Saturday afternoon, about one o'clock.
The room is a large one in an old brown-stone house. The ceiling is high, the floor ancient. It serves for a sleeping as well as a living room. Off it at one end is a kitchen, at the other a small bedroom.
There is no woman's touch in the place, but in spite of its dilapidation there is a mellow and intellectual air--lent, perhaps, by the books and magazines that lie scattered about; some old college pennants on the wall; also both architectural drawings and original cartoons. There is a good architect's drawing board in use by a window and a rack containing many rolls of drawings and prints.
TED is sitting on the couch, reading an old book. He wears a once excellent but now threadbare suit.
TIPPY wears shabby old dressing gown, short. He has no trousers on. He is pressing his pants on an ironing board.
Each is silent and preoccupied, KEN makes a finishing touch with color brush, then turns his board down to a more vertical position and backs off, surveying his work.
KEN. Take a squint at that, Tippy.
[TIPPY carefully turns iron on end and steps over to look at drawing.]
TIPPY. H'm. Very charming. Very charming. If Comrade Stalin could see that he would order one for each member of his harem.
KEN. That's a bum joke. Not even Hearst has accused Stalin of irregularity in his private life.
TIPPY. Sorry. That comes of my not reading Hearst.
KEN. What's more, this drawing's not intended for the Soviets. It's distinctly American.
TIPPY. But