Characters
In the Capital of Iberia:
the king
the prime minister
the minister of war
the chief of staff
a secretary
officers
In the Capital of the Republic:
grosvenor, a contractor
conroy, a manufacturer of guns
pollen, owner of a chain of newspapers
senator taney
senator harradan
representative maynard
a general in the army
a captain
crowd
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In costuming this play, it is essential that the uniforms of the Iberian officers in the first scene should not be conspicuously copied after those of any of the armies of Europe. A compromise, grotesque to the expert, would be better here than a misleading realism.