"Step out--Jack!" A three act comedy

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S16S7 RRY OSBORNE

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"STEP OUT-JACK!"

Act III. — Rysdale's office, fourteenth floor Realty Building. The following morning. Time. — The Present

Place. — New York City.

Time of Playing. — Two hours and twenty minutes.

STORY OF THE PLAY

It seems in this world that Fortune favors wealth and success rather than modesty and virtue and, therefore, this play is of practical help and encouragement to the ambitious young man or woman striving to get a start in life.

Jack Rysdale fell in love with Zoe Galloway when he chummed with her brother Clarence in college.

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Jack worked his way through college, while Zoe and Clarence came from a wealthy family. After leaving college, Jack went to New York and made a start in business, hoping to win success and the girl of his choice. He promptly failed in business and then drifted from one job to another, going a little lower each time. He grew down-hearted and discouraged. Too proud to acknowledge his failure to Zoe or his old chum, Clarence, and too independent to ask for help, he has avoided meeting them for six months. When the play opens we find him broke and ready to give up and go back to his home town in the West.

As a last resort he starts selling books and wanders into the office of Mr. Wilder, a successful but unscrupulous stock promoter, who gives him an entirely new philosophy and view-point of life. Wilder only takes a passing interest in Jack until he discovers that he is acquainted with the Galloway family. Rich men are Wilder's prey, and in order to gain an introduction to Galloway, he stakes Jack to five hundred dollars. Jack is to spend the money on himself so that he will appear prosperous and successful when he again meets the Galloway family and introduces Wilder. At the same time, Jack learns that he has a rival in Lyons, who is making desperate love to Zoe.

A few hundred dollars and Wilder's rough philosophy work a wondrous change in Jack. Zoe's interest in him is renewed, he gets wind of a big business deal in which Zoe's father and Lyons are involved and the race is on. Wilder is trying to sell Galloway his wildcat stock; Lyons is trying to close his deal with Galloway and win his daughter besides ; Jack, with only his nerve and his love for Zoe, steps out, takes the middle of the road and, with the odds all against him, gets a new start in business and wins Zoe's respect and love.

DRESS AND COSTUMES

Jack Rysdale. In First Act, shabby business suit in need of pressing, shoes worn off at the heels and need pohshing; gray felt hat in need of blocking; black tie. Second Act, immaculate evening clothes. Third Act, neat, perfectly fitting business suit, new shoes, bladk and white tie.

Russell Watson Wilder. In First Act, light, well-tailored business suit. Second Act, evening clothes. Third Act, same as Act One. Small, black mustache.

Percy Lyons. In First Act, English walking coat, striped trousers, striped tie, spats, derby hat. Second Act, evening clothes. Third Act, dark-colored business suit, fancy vest, spats, light-colored soft hat.

Mr. Seamons. First Act, dark-colored business suitj soft hat. Third Act, same.

John Galloway. Second Act, evening clothes, with Tuxedo coat. Third Act, dark business suit, dark soft hat.

Clarence Galloway. Second Act, evening dress. Tuxedo. Third Act, business suit.

Collins. Third Act, full Uniform.

Harris. Second Act, evening clothes, with black and white striped vest.

Buddie. First and Third Acts, brown corduroy suit.

Painter, Electrician and Teamsters. Characteristic working clothes.

Mrs. Galloway. Second Act, dark-colored evening gown.

ZoE Galloway. Second Act, light evening gown and wrap. Third Act, colored silk sweater, white silk skirt, white shoes and stockings, sports hat.

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PROPERTY LIST ix

Cynthia Barnett. Second Act, light evening gown and wrap. Third Act, colored silk sweater, in contrast with the one worn by Zoe, sports skirt and hat, white shoes and stockings.

Miss Roberts. First Act, white shirt-waist, dark blue serge skirt.

Miss Williams. Third Act, light-colored suit, white shirt-waist, wide-brimmed hat.

PROPERTY LIST

Act I Letter in envelope and pile of correspondence for

Miss Roberts.

Cigars in humidor for Wilder.

Bank-notes for Miss Roberts.

Baseball pass-check for Wilder.

Small satchel or sample-case containing props for

Rysdale.

Pad of contract blanks for Rysdale. Cane and newspaper for Wilder.

Revolver for Seamons.

Check for Miss Roberts.

Stock certificates in drawer of Wilder's desk. Contract blank for Buddie.

Act II

Tray with coffee service for Harris. Card tray with calling card for Harris, Check for Clarence.

Shaker and cordial glass for Clarence. Note-book and pencil for Wilder.

Cigars for Wilder.

PROPERTY LIST

Cigarettes and matches for Clarence. Cigarette box and matches on table.

Act III Five-cent piece for Clarence

Four pennies for Rysdale.

A small set of Encyclopedia, about twelve or fifteen volumes, for Buddie.

Office supplies for Clarence, pens, pencils, ink-wells, spindles, stationery, etc.

Cigarettes and matches for Clarence.

Typewritten sheet of paper for Clarence.

Cigars for Galloway.

Bottle of ink for Miss Williams.

Blank check for Miss Williams.

Legal-looking document for Collins.

Hand-bag, containing powder puff, mirror and a five-cent piece for Miss Williams.

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Act III. Stage Setting

Note. The set for Act III,,l3 made by simply reversinc the riopit and left flats of tlie set for Act I,

"Step Out-Jack!"