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This etext was prepared by David Price, email [email protected]
from the 1911 T. Fisher Unwin edition.

THE MASTER OF MRS. CHILVERS--AN IMPROBABLE
COMEDY
by Jerome K. Jerome

THE FIRST ACT SCENE: Drawing-room, 91, Russell Square. TIME:
3 p.m.
THE SECOND ACT SCENE: Liberal Committee Room, East India
Dock Road. TIME: 5 p.m.
THE THIRD ACT SCENE: The Town Hall, East Poplar. TIME: 10
p.m.
THE FOURTH ACT SCENE: Russell Square TIME: Midnight

THE CAST OF "THE MASTER OF MRS. CHILVERS"

AS IT WAS PRODUCED AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE,
LONDON, ON APRIL 26TH, 1911, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT
OF MESSRS. VEDRENNE & EADIE.
Lady Mogton Mary Rorke Annys Chilvers Lena Ashwell Phoebe

Mogton Ethel Dane Janet Blake Gillian Scaife Mrs. Mountcalm Villiers
Sarah Brooke Elizabeth Spender Auriol Lee Rose Merton Esme
Beringer Mrs. Chinn Sydney Fairbrother Geoffrey Chilvers, M.P.
Dennis Eadie Dorian St. Herbert Leon Quartermaine Ben Lamb, M.P.
A. E. Benedict William Gordon Edmund Gwenn Sigsby Michael
Sherbrooke Hake H. B. Tabberer Mr. Peekin Gerald Mirrielees Mr.
Hopper Stanley Logan Mrs. Peekin Rowena Jerome Miss Borlasse
Cathleen Nesbitt Miss Ricketts Hetta Bartlett

CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY

GEOFFREY CHILVERS, M.P. [President Men's League for the
Extension of the Franchise to Women] A loving husband, and
(would-be) affectionate father. Like many other good men, he is in
sympathy with the Woman's Movement: "not thinking it is coming in
his time."
ANNYS CHILVERS [nee Mogton, Hon. Sec. Women's Parliamentary
Franchise League] A loving wife, and (would-be) affection mother.
Many thousands of years have gone to her making. A generation ago,
she would have been the ideal woman: the ideal helpmeet. But new
ideas are stirring in her blood, a new ideal of womanhood is forcing
itself upon her.
LADY MOGTON [President W.P.F.L.] She knows she would be of
more use in Parliament than many of the men who are there; is
naturally annoyed at the Law's stupidity in keeping her out.
PHOEBE MOGTON [Org. Sec. W.P.F.L.] The new girl, thinking more
of politics than of boys. But that will probably pass.
JANET BLAKE [Jt. Org. Sec. W.P.F.L.] She dreams of a new heaven
and a new earth when woman has the vote.
MRS. MOUNTCALM VILLIERS [Vice-President W.P.F.L.] She was

getting tired of flirting. The Woman's Movement has arrived just at the
right moment.
ELIZABETH SPENDER [Hons. Treas. W.P.F.L.] She sees woman
everywhere the slave of man: now pampered, now beaten, but ever the
slave. She can see no hope of freedom but through warfare.
MRS. CHINN A mother.
JAWBONES A bill-poster. Movements that do not fit in with the
essentials of life on thirty shillings a week have no message so far as
Jawbones is concerned.
GINGER Whose proper name is Rose Merton, and who has to
reconcile herself to the fact that so far as her