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A Visit from Raffles
Produced in 1909 at the Empress Theatre in Brixton, South London. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The text of this play is provided courtesy of the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham, reference: MS127/A/3/4. Many thanks to Mark Eccleston and Peter Rowland for their … Continue reading
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Act IV
(Lights out, all except Blue Floats. 11.40 P.M., same night. Same Scene. Room in perfect order. Sound of key in lock. Enter BARRACLOUGH with letter. Holds door, then turns up lights. Enter BEDFORD and MERTON. They both take off their … Continue reading
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Act III
At curtain, hoarse voices – NEWSPAPER BOY calling papers- “‘Ere yer are- Special- Great Jewel Robbery- Theft of the Melrose -Paper!” etc. SCENE:- RAFFLES’S chambers, The Albany, London. A square room artistically decorated and furnished, showing evidence of wealth and … Continue reading
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Act II
Same scene 9 A.M. next morning. Discovered at rise of curtain. CROWLEY coming downstairs. He is in white flannel trousers, pumps, and grey tweed coat with cricket scarf round the neck. As CROWLEY comes downstairs whistling, GOLDBY enters from door … Continue reading
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Act I
SCENE: —Hall in country house of LORD AMERSTETH, Milchester Abbey, Dorset, England. Dark oak, heavily wainscotted. Broad staircase L.C. leads to a balcony that extends across two sides of room — the way to upper rooms. At head of staircase … Continue reading
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
Produced at the Comedy Theatre, London, on May 12, 1906, with the following cast of characters: — THE EARL OF AMERSTETH . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. Frederick Volpé. LADY MELROSE (his … Continue reading
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XIX. Apologia
On one of the worst days of last year, to wit the first day of the Eton and Harrow match, I had turned into the Hamman, in Jermyn Street, as the best available asylum for wet boots that might no … Continue reading
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XVIII. The Death of a Sinner
What was I to do? I knew what Raffles would have done; he would have outstripped Mackenzie in his descent upon the moneylender, beaten the cab on foot most probably, and dared Dan Levy to denounce him to the detective. … Continue reading
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XVII. A Secret Service
This house also was on the river, but it was very small bricks-and-mortar compared with the other two. One of a semi-detached couple built close to the road, with narrow strips of garden to the river’s brim, its dingy stucco … Continue reading
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XVI. Watch and Ward
I well remember, as I set reluctant foot upon the wooden stair, taking a last and somewhat lingering look at the dust and dirt of the lower chamber, as one who knew not what might happen before he saw it … Continue reading
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