Samuel French

I'LL LEAVE IT TO YOU

A LIGHT COMEDY

NOEL COWARD

"I'LL LEAVE IT TO YOU"

A LIGHT COMEDY IN THREE ACTS

BY

NOEL COWARD

SAMUEL FRENCH

LONDON

NEW YORK TORONTO SYDNEY HOLLYWOOD

[The following text concerning the copyright and royalties was printed at the beginning of the book. It is included here for historical interest only. (note of transcriber)]

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ISBN 0 573 01199 0

To

MY MOTHER

"I'LL LEAVE IT TO YOU"

Produced on Wednesday, July 21, 1920, at the New Theatre, London, with the following Cast of Characters:--

MRS. DERMOTT _Miss Kate Cutler_. OLIVER } { _Mr. Douglas Jefferies_. EVANGELINE } { _Miss Muriel Pope_. SYLVIA }(Her Children){ _Miss Stella Jesse_. BOBBIE } { _Mr. Noel Coward_. JOYCE } { _Miss Moya Nugent_. DANIEL DAVIS (Her Brother) _Mr. E. Holman Clark_. MRS. CROMBIE _Miss Lois Stuart_. FAITH CROMBIE _Miss Esme Wynne_. GRIGGS (Butler) _Mr. David Clarkson_.

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: I'll Leave It To You by Noel Coward
• 2: Remember Joyce is only a school girl
• 3: EVANGELINE sitting in armchair
• 4: DERMOTT downstairs followed by BOBBIE
• 5: Perhaps Tibbets will know we'll ask him
• 6: Tibbets only said EVANGELINE glancing out of the window
• 7: BOBBIE leaning against stairs
• 8: EVANGELINE goes up slowly after them
• 9: I think Tibbets said about fifteen hundred
• 10: Enter EVANGELINE down stairs
• 11: DANIEL pulling himself together dramatically
• 12: SPACELEFT hour of tribulation
• 13: But look here EVANGELINE
• 14: EVANGELINE after a short pause
• 15: DERMOTT is tidying window seat
• 16: EVANGELINE going to corridor
• 17: CROMBIE walking towards door with MRS
• 18: BOBBIE by armchair desperately
• 19: He puts the telegram on the mantelpiece
• 20: CROMBIE sees them through window L
• 21: Bobbie isn't scatter brained
• 22: DERMOTT followed by EVANGELINE
• 23: Though Vangy tells me I didn't understand half of it
• 24: Perhaps the doctor diagnosed the case all wrong
• 25: CROMBIE and FAITH sit below and R
• 26: But why was the Rajah burning in Piccadilly
• 27: He takes his legs off Chesterfield
• 28: Crombie in reason she's trying to pump me
• 29: SYLVIA rises and goes to him laughing
• 30: CROMBIE settling herself in arm chair
• 31: I didn't know boa constrictors cried
• 32: CROMBIE shows boredom during speech
• 33: The positions are as follows EVANGELINE down R
• 34: But Bobbie wouldn't let me dry properly
• 35: Through the agency of Miss Crombie here
• 36: Exit BOBBIE and FAITH into garden
• 37: Perhaps mother would BOBBIE
• 38: BOBBIE stamps out and collides with SYLVIA
• 39: SYLVIA putting him back on seat
• 40: DERMOTT taking letter from table
• 41: Perhaps you'd better sound the gong again
• 42: Has any one seen my tennis racquet
• 43: DERMOTT does comic business with newspaper
• 44: BOBBIE marmalade on toast in hand
• 45: SYLVIA sniffing on Chesterfield
• 46: DERMOTT sits in SYLVIA'S chair
• 47: DANIEL puts down knife and fork
• 48: EVANGELINE and BOBBIE together
• 49: DERMOTT telegram as he passes her
• 50: Remove everything from sideboard
• 51: Manuscript music paper on table
• 52: Made and printed in great britain by whitstable litho ltd