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Look out for paint: A farce comedy in three acts

Chapter 4: CHARACTERS
By Cornelius Shea
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A rural three-act farce set on a farm follows the arrival of a well-dressed city boarder and the household's attempts to prepare for summer guests, including repainting a sailboat. Romantic confusion develops as an artist pursues the farmer's daughter while a tramp painter uses disguise to probe devotion, triggering misunderstandings, mistaken identities, and comic chases. Subplots of bashful suitors, a widow's shifting affections, and practical chores mingle with the central mix-ups, and the chaos is untangled in the final act through the intervention of younger helpers and a decisive domestic resolution.

Look Out For Paint

CHARACTERS

(As originally produced in Tottenville, N. Y., June 9, 1911).

Hiram Rodney, owner of “High Up Farm” Mr. Frank J. Dolan.
Percy Heartache, an artist, in love with Rodney’s daughter Helen Mr. Benjamin B. Cole.
Hickory Homespun, a bashful farmer, who is well to do Mr. J. J. Malle.
Trotwell Roamer, a tramp, who is a painter by trade Mr. Edward Johnson.
Bill, a big, good-natured boy who does the chores Mr. Arthur Parsons.
Susan Rodney, the farmer’s wife Miss Cecilia Stern.
Helen Rodney, the farmer’s daughter Miss Lena S. Hoehn.
Hattie Renwick, a stenographer from the city, past thirty and anxious to wed Miss Marvel Matthes.
Lucinda Wheatchaff, a widow in love with Hickory Homespun Mrs. Willis Larkin.

Time:—The present. Locality:—A farm in the upper part of New York State.

Time of performance, one hour and a half.

Copyright, 1912, by Walter H. Baker & Co.