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 PARADISE FOUND

ACT I

STAGE DIRECTIONS.

The scene represents the interior of the Shaw Memorial Hall, on the Adelphi Terrace, South- east Municipal District, A. 2. The building is in the Pseudo-Gothic style, with Depraved Edwardian details. A stained glass window at the back repre- sents scenes in the life of Mr. Shaw, among them being the Battle with the Censors, and the Duel with Chesterton.

A small door on the spectator's left communicates with the Fabian Settlement. A larger door on his right opens into the street. Over the inner door is a clock, with the hands pointing to about twenty minutes to twelve.

At the upper end of the hall is a dais guarded by a low gilt railing, in which there is a gate on the left. In the middle of the dais is a couch placed sideways to the audience. Round the couch are grouped five pieces of statuary in the following order from left to right (1) A plaster cast of the Venus of Milo ; (2) A figure representing the popular type of John Bull ; (3) A group of St. George and the Dragon, reproducing the design on the coinage ; (4) A statue of Hamlet meditating on the skull ; (5) A wooden Highlander, life-size, taking snuff from a mull.

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