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Excerpt from Double Dummy a Comedietta in One Act Scene. - The studio of one Stephen Wainworth, an artist, whose fanciful sketches of celebrities bring him the money he refuses to spend on Chinese idols for his studio, and the fame he painstakingly avoids. A plain setting, then, in an upper room, with "artist's light" coming in through the north windows. An easel bearing a large canvas stands at the right, half turned toward the audience. A few chairs and tables and a couch stand anywhere, none of them suggesting the bizarre luxury of the typical studio. A closed cupboard at the extreme right is half concealed by the easel. There is a door at back centre, near it a telephone. Enter Merton Graves. He is a clean, breezy, common enough young fellow, with a likable face and impulsive manner. There is a general suggestion of business alertness about him, although at the moment a half comical dismay rests visibly on his face. He aims his soft cap at one chair, his ulster at a second, and flings himself on a third, running impatient fingers through his slightly tousled black hair. Graves. I knew he wouldn't be here. I knew it. Nobody but a sitter can find a painter at home. Hang it all, I wanted him, too. What's the use of friends you can't get at? (He stretches himself disconsolately, and falls into deeper dejection.) I believe I'll chuck the whole thing and get into a man's business. Here I am wasting my time, and the splendid talents all my relatives tell me I've got, chasing up a parcel of fool celebrities who don't want to be interviewed anyway - the decent ones. When a big live fellow like me has to spend his days and nights hanging around trying to get ten minutes' talk with a footlight favorite for the sake of putting on the front page what dentist she patronizes and how she takes her eggs - and calling it journalism! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.