THE VILLAIN
THE HEROINE
THE COMIC MAN
THE LAWYER
THE ADVENTURESS
THE SERVANT GIRL
THE CHILD
THE COMIC LOVERS
THE PEASANTS
THE GOOD OLD MAN
THE IRISHMAN
THE DETECTIVE
THE SAILOR



STAGE-LAND.


THE HERO.

His name is George, generally speaking. "Call me George!" he says to
the heroine. She calls him George (in a very low voice, because she
is so young and timid). Then he is happy.

The stage hero never has any work to do. He is always hanging about
and getting into trouble. His chief aim in life is to be accused of
crimes he has never committed, and if he can muddle things up with a
corpse in some complicated way so as to get himself reasonably
mistaken for the murderer, he feels his day has not been wasted.