STEWART KIDD MODERN PLAYS Edited by Frank Shay

EYES THAT CANNOT SEE

EYES THAT CANNOT SEE

A PLAY IN ONE ACT

By ALBERT GNUDTZMANN

Translated from the Danish by Arvid Paulson

CINCINNATI STEWART KIDD COMPANY PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY STEWART KIDD COMPANY

_All rights reserved_

EYES THAT CANNOT SEE is fully protected by copyright and no performance may be given without the consent of the translator, Mr. Arvid Paulson, who may be addressed in care of the publishers.

Printed in the United States of America THE CAXTON PRESS

TO

THE MEMORY OF MY FRIEND

RICHARD MANSFIELD 2ND,

WHO DIED IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY, I DEDICATE THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THIS PLAY.

--A. P.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

HAMMELEV, _a public school teacher_ MRS. HAMMELEV, _his wife_ ANTON, _their son_ LOUISE THORSEN KIRSTEN

The action of the play takes place in the living quarters of the Hammelevs in a Danish country school.

Produced at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen for the first time on the tenth of September, 1903.

THE STAGE

A living-room at the Hammelevs’, with low ceiling and antique furniture. In the background two windows, through which is seen a garden. Between the windows an old-fashioned linen closet. By the windows, on the right, a platform with a sewing-table. A bird-cage with a canary bird stands on the window-sill; white curtains; a number of flower pots. Doors on each side of the stage. To the right a big chiffonier. Nearer the footlights a smoking-table, above which, on the wall, hangs a pipe-rack with pipes. On the left a sofa; in front of it stands a table with a rocking-chair and a couple of other chairs. Above the sofa hangs a mirror; on each side of the mirror portraits of Luther and Melanchthon; underneath these, photographs of members of the family. The room has the stamp of cozy homeliness--sunshine outside--the sun rays pour into the room in broad streams through the windows.

EYES THAT CANNOT SEE