Rada - A Drama of War in One Act | Page 5

picks up the box from which the record was taken and reads the title._]
"_A Christmas Carol Sung by the monks of St. Peter's monastery At midnight mass, on Christmas Eve_--ADESTE, FIDELES!"
Fancy that! How wonderful! A Christmas carol on the gramophone! So all the future ages will be sure To know exactly what religion was. To think we cannot hear it! Well, no matter, These plums are excellent. Everybody's gone. To think I was the fittest, after all! Come, Rada, you're pretending! [_He accidentally starts the gramophone working and jumps back, a little alarmed. He runs to the door and knocks._] Rada! Rada! I've started it! Subka! Subka! Do you hear? The gramophone's working! [_He stoops down and looks at the floor again. The artillery booms like a thunder peal in the distance. Then the gramophone drowns it with the deep voices of the monks, a great chorus, singing ADESTE, FIDELES! NANKO dips his finger in something on the floor and stares at it. A look of horror comes into his face. He stands with his mouth open, listening._] It's true!

CAST of the first performance at the Christmas (1913) Festival of THE MACDOWELL CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY
RADA
A Drama in One Act by Alfred Noyes
(A Christmas Tragedy of the Balkans, being a plea for "Peace on earth, good will toward men.")
* * * * *
PERSONS OF THE PLAY
RADA, wife of the vilage doctor, Miss Mirzah Cheslir
SUBKA, her daughter, aged twelve, Miss Lenore Phelps
ARRAM, } two hostile soldiers quartered Mr. Henry Hull MICHAEL,} on her house in time of war Mr. Wright Kramer
NANKO, a half-witted schoolmaster, Mr. Charles White Whittlesey
FIRST SOLDIER ....... Mr. Charles Douville Coburn
SECOND SOLDIER ...... Mr. Harold Herts
{..... Mr. Charles F. Peters OTHER SOLDIERS {..... Mr. Harold Butterfield {..... Mr. W. G. Belew
* * * * *
SCENE: The living-room of a country doctor in the Balkans, in a village which has just been taken by the enemy.
TIME: Christmas Eve.
Stage Director, Miss Mary Shaw

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