FRITZ, _his son_.
JUDGE SCHWARZ.
_A foreign ballet-dancer._
KORB, _secretary for Adelaide's estate_.
CARL, _the Colonel's man-servant._
_A waiter._
_Club-guests._ _Deputations of citizens_.
_Place of action: A provincial capital._
THE JOURNALISTS[1] (1853)
TRANSLATED BY ERNEST F. HENDERSON, PH.D., L.H.D.
ACT I
SCENE I
_A summer parlor in the_ COLONEL'S _house. Handsome furnishings. In
the centre of rear wall an open door, behind it a verandah and garden;
on the sides of rear wall large windows. Right and left, doors; on the
right, well in front, a window. Tables, chairs, a small sofa_.
IDA _is sitting in front on the right reading a book. The_ COLONEL
_enters through centre door with an open box in his hand in which are
dahlias_.
COLONEL.
Here, Ida, are the new varieties of dahlias our gardener has grown.
You'll have to rack your brains to find names for them. Day after
tomorrow is the Horticultural Society meeting, when I am to exhibit
and christen them.
IDA.
This light-colored one here should be called the "Adelaide."
COLONEL.
Adelaide Buneck, of course. Your own name is out of the running, for
as a little dahlia you have long been known to the flower-trade.
IDA.
One shall be called after your favorite writer, "Boz."
COLONEL.
Splendid! And it must be a really fine one, this yellow one here with
violet points. And the third one--how shall we christen that?
IDA (_stretching out her hand entreatingly to her father_).
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