Fourteen (play)
play by Alice Gerstenberg
Fourteen is a play by Alice Gerstenberg. The play was originally published in the February 1920 issue of The Drama magazine. It is now a public domain work and may be performed without royalties.
Production
This one-act social satire was first performed October 7, 1919 at the Maitland Playhouse, 332 Stockton Street, San Francisco, on a bill with three other one-act plays. The San Francisco Chronicle remarked that it "gayly lampoons the question of dinner entertainments". Arthur Maitland's company had just moved into a new 200-seat theater from its previous incarnation as the St. Francis Little Theatre Club in the Colonial Ballroom of the St. Francis Hotel.
Characters
Mrs. Horace Pringle, a woman of fashion.
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