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PRINCE HAGEN
CHARACTERS
Gerald Isman: a poet. Mimi: a Nibelung. Alberich: King of the Nibelungs. Prince Hagen: his grandson. Mrs. Isman. Hicks: a butler. Mrs. Bagley-Willis: mistress of Society. John Isman: a railroad magnate. Estelle Isman: his daughter. Plimpton: the coal baron. Rutherford: lord of steel. De Wiggleston Riggs: cotillon leader. Lord Alderdyce: seeing America. Calkins: Prince Hagen's secretary. Nibelungs: members of Society.
SCENE 2. The Hall of State in Nibelheim.
ACT II Library in the Isman home on Fifth Avenue: two years later.
ACT I
SCENE I
GERALD. A plague on that fire! I think I'll make my supper on prunes and crackers to-night!
GERALD. Hello!
GERALD. Why... who are you?
GERALD. Where do you want to go?
GERALD. Oh, I see! You got lost?
GERALD. You should have turned to the right down where the roads cross.
GERALD. Are you expecting to get to the railroad to-night?
GERALD. Humph! You'll find it hard going. Better rest. What are you--a peddler?
GERALD. No. I don't want anything.
GERALD. Yes... all alone.
GERALD. That's my father's camp.
GERALD. The family hasn't come up yet.
GERALD. I'm camping out--I prefer the tent.
GERALD. John Isman's his name.
GERALD. Why... yes. Fairly so.
GERALD. Oh! You've been here before?
GERALD. That's my sister, I guess.
GERALD. Her name's Estelle.
GERALD. I'm Gerald Isman.
GERALD. Yes.
GERALD. Why... what makes you think that?
GERALD. Oh! I see! No... I like to be alone.
GERALD. Yes. You like music?
GERALD. This?
GERALD. That's the Nibelung music.
GERALD. Why... it's in an opera.
GERALD. It's by a composer named Wagner.
GERALD. Why... I guess he made it up.
GERALD. It's about the Nibelungs.
GERALD. Queer little people who live down inside the earth, and spend all their time digging for gold.
GERALD. Why... I don't know...
GERALD. No... but the poets tell us they exist.
GERALD. Well, they have great rocky caverns, down in the depths of the earth. And they have treasures of gold... whole caves of it. And they're very cunning smiths... they make all sorts of beautiful golden vessels and trinkets.
GERALD. Oh!
GERALD. Why... where did you get such things?
GERALD. Let me see them.
GERALD. Why... what is it?
GERALD. Why... I don't know...
GERALD. Why... they're little men... with long hair and funny clothes... and humpbacked.
GERALD. Why... yes... in a way.
GERALD. Their names?
GERALD. Well, there was Alberich, the king.
GERALD. He was the one who found the Rheingold. And then there was Hagen, his son.
GERALD. He killed the hero, Siegfried.
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