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        CLEOPATRA
  The Romance of a Woman
        and a Queen
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Helen Gardner Picture Players,

   Tappan-on-the-Hudson,
        New York.

2 Adapted from the play

      ...by...
  VICTORIEN SARDOU
 and directed by
CHARLES L. GASKILL.

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Cleopatra's costume designed by Miss Gardner.

Original costumes designed by Madame Stippange. Egyptian Furniture designed by Mr. Paul Steinberg.

     Scenic Artist, Mr. Arthur Corbault.
     Properties by Mr. William Hemming.
     Stage Manager, Mr. Phillip Robson.

4 Certain stage traditions originally founded in ignorance and preserved after they became traditions, have not been considered; the object of the Director has been to insure naturalness in an atmosphere of romance, the object of the Author to intimate the nobilities and grandeur of the woman who was devotedly loved by Julius Caesar. Perfect freedom has been exercised in

                 the adaptation.

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        CLEOPATRA
  The Romance of a Woman
        and a Queen
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         ________

Helen Gardner Picture Players.

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                 CAST OF CHARACTERS

CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt . Miss GARDNER Iras, an attendant . . . . . Miss Sindelar Charmian, an attendant . . . Miss Fielding Octavia, wife of Antony . . . Miss Robson Nicola, a child . . . . . Miss Helene Antony, a triumvir and general . . Mr. Sindelar Pharon, a Greek slave and fisherman . Mr. Howard Ventidius, a Roman soldier . . . Mr. Waite Diomedes, a rich Egyptian . . . Mr. Osborn Kephren, captain of the guards to the queen Mr. Knowles Octavius, a triumvir and general . . Mr. Paul Serapion, an Egyptian priest . . Mr. Brady Ixias, servant to Ventidius . . . Mr. Corker

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    IRAS, the queen's

attendant, loves Pharon, the

   slave fisherman----

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  "Stop!-these are for 

the Queen! I love her even

       unto death!"

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  "You shall be dead
 before those flowers 

wither--unless you speak!"

10 "You may kill me, Queen, but the love in my soul for

you will never perish!"

11 "If I let you live--and love

 me--ten days, will you
 swear then to destroy
       yourself?"

12 On the fifth day.

13 Diomedes, her cousin, asks

 Cleopatra to give him

audience in which to offer

 her his hand and heart
       and riches.

14 "I perceive, Royal Egypt,

  your choice is this
 fisherman--my slave!"

15

 "He lives whose love is

greater than his life!...poor Pharon, thy crown shall be

  placed upon thy head 
        by Death."

16 The ten days have passed.

17 "He will sleep a long,

     long time!"

18 "I shall begin to live when I die--and dreams come of you--and you--and you---!"

19 "Thank thee, Isis! If the Queen takes his life, I shall

       return it!"

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"Unless Cleopatra sent 

you to save me I swear to plunge this dagger into

      my heart!"

21

Iras deceives Pharon by

telling him that the Queen

sent her to restore his
life and that he must 
     leave Egypt.

22 "I bear a message for the Queen of Egypt from my

master, Marc Antony!
    Let me pass!"

23 "The Queen is in danger--I

      will not go!"

24 She reads a message from Marc Antony ordering her to appear before him at

 Tarsus to answer to
charges of conspiracy
    against Rome.

25 missing

26 missing

27

  Antony holds court in

Tarsus to inflict punishment

on the enemies of Rome in
 rebellion. Cleopatra has
      been summoned.

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"Antony will devastate

Egypt if Cleopatra fails

       to come!"

29 "It were better for Antony

did she never come--for
   his army is not as 
 powerful as her eyes!"

30 "But she, your Queen, the leader of it all, is not here to answer. I will wait no longer. Deliver these pris- oners to the executioner!"

31 "What defense have I to

 make, since you have

already judged me guilty?"

32

 "I thank my Lord! and,
 since my innocence will

not offend, I will not blush

       to own it!"

33 "I do not hate Rome--nor--

 Antony! I do hate my
lord's enemy Octavius!"

34 "I believe you!

Forgive me!"

35

"I am ready to sacrifice 

all--friends, wife, country,

  an Empire--everything
      for thy love!"

36

 "Ho, ho! your mighty

Antony has capitulated to

 this woman of Egypt.
   I told you so."

37 "Suppose Antony were told

that his Queen had just
left the embraces of my
   slave Pharon---?"

38 "Say what you will--she is

 the mental and moral
superior of this Roman
      debauche!"

39 missing

40 missing

41

 Time passes and Antony

lingers in the land of the

Lotus, forgetting every 
     tie of the past.

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"Go kill that man--you

remember--the fisherman--

        Pharon!"

43 "I love the woman you love so well--that I'd give my

life--for the man--she 
        loves!"

44 "And are you jealous of this poor slave's devotion who would give his life for thee because I love thee?"

45

"Thou hast shown me the

infinite beauty of thy soul,

 my love  Forgive me!"

46 The beginning of the end

  of forgetfulness.

47

 Ventidius, faithful

friend, brings messages

      from Rome.

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 A message from home

announces the news that Flavia, his wife, is dead;

  also that Rome is

threatened and needs him.

49 "And what of the married

        woman?"

50

"I am happy here, and

here I shall remain. Let Rome extricate herself

  as best she may!"

51

 "O Queen! be you now

his better spirit! Let Rome believe for a single day that Antony has returned, and

  Octavius is lost!"

52 "Go---but be faithful

      to me!"

53 "Follow your armor,

    my lord!"

54 missing

55 missing

56 Months pass and Cleopatra

grows weary waiting for
 the return of Antony.

57 missing

58 She is warned that Antony has deceived her, and that

 he will never return.

59 "I must see the Queen!"

60 "The message you received was a lie! Antony loves you

--he will return to you!"

61

  "The sea has been 

delivered of the pirates, Antony has captured the

  fleet of Pompey!"

62 "Octavius and Antony are reconciled, and to insure the peace of the world,

 Antony has---has---
 married Octavia!"

63 "Tonight, you, Iras and I shall set sail for Rome!"

64

Antony begs her to arm

her war fleet and sail at

   once for Actium.

65 "We go to Actium instead of Rome. My fleet of war

   will follow us!"

66

 Antony, at war with the 

brother of his wife, delays

  action, waiting for
   Cleopatra's fleet.

67 Octavia, the faithful wife of Antony, comes to urge

peace between him and
her brother, Octavius.

68

 "Will not you be recon-

ciled to Octavius? you, my

  husband, to him, my
        brother?"

69 "Do as your gentle wife urges, and the imperial crown of Rome is within

     your grasp!"

70 "The war-beacon shall not be lighted! Go tell this to Octavius, my noble wife, I shall be your husband

    from now on!"

71 "I am the wife of Antony!

    I am Octavia!"

72 News that the war ships of

Cleopatra have arrived.

73 Fearing that the news of

Cleopatra's arrival may

cause Antony to break his resolutions to stop the war,

  Ventidius persuades

Diomedes to tell Antony the scandals concerning her.

74 "Caesar, Pompey, Sextus,

Herod, my noble lord

himself--they are legion!

Pharon, my slave! And

now Kephren, the captain

   of her guard!"

75 "It is a lie!"

76 "Prove it by killing him!"

77 "General, your wife comes

 from her brother with
humble terms of peace!"

78 missing

79 missing

80 missing

81

  The Battle of Actium.

Fearing if Antony wins the battle that his love of power will be greater than his love

for her, Cleopatra orders
  her ships to retreat.

82 Antony, weakly suspecting

Cleopatra of treachery

orders his ships to follow,

thus losing the battle...

83 After Actium.

84 "Charmian, go tell him to

come to me! Tell him I
  am dying of grief!"

85

 "Oh, Actium! Actium!
Thou art my shame and 

ruin! My curse be upon her

 who did this to me!"

86 "Yes, lead us! We will not desert you! We have ten legions at our back!"

87

"The Queen, my lord, is 

dying of grief! She begs to

see you but once again!"

88 "To-morrow we enter Alexandria to punish

Cleopatra for her
   treachery!"

89 "Swear to me that if I am defeated you will plunge

   your sword into
     this heart!"

90 With the morning's light.

91

 "O wings of the morn!

I invoke thee now, to take the message of my heart to

his-that he will come to
       my side!"

92 "I betray you to Caesar?

Can you, Oh! can you
 accuse me of that!"

93 "The army of Octavius is preparing to attack thee! The honor of Royal Egypt

     is menaced!"

94 "The whole city is in the

hands of Octavius...!"

95 "The Queen is dead! The

   Queen is dead!"

96 missing

97 "The report is false.

  She is alive."

98 Cleopatra escapes into the

tomb she had built for
        herself.

99

Cleopatra, having deter-

mined to try two plans to outwit Octavius, explains one of them to Kephren.

100 "When I lift my hands to my lips, strike him dead!"

101 "I have sent for you to crave mercy for him---

    Marc Antony!"

102 "Guard this woman! Your life shall answer for it if she does harm to herself!"

103 "To lie in the silent grave by your dear side, Antony, is life! This wakefulness

is a thousand deaths!"

104 "This fruit is blessed by me, a holy priest! It has that

    within to remove 
     her madness!"

105 "There is a serpent in

     the basket!"

106 F I N I S.

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