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Hell-Bent fer Heaven (1924)

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Hell-Bent fer Heaven (1924)
by Harvey Hatcher Hughes

Hatcher Hughes won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for this play.

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HELL-BENT
FER HEAVEN

A Play in Three Acts


BY

HATCHER HUGHES



PUBLISHERS

HARPER & BROTHERS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

1924

HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN


Copyright, 1924
By Hatcher Hughes
Printed in the U. S. A.


First Edition
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This play has been copyrighted and published simultaneously in the United States and Great Britain. All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages.

This play must not be performed by amateurs or professionals without written permission. For such permission address Marc Klaw, Inc., The Klaw Theatre Building, New York City.

To

B. M.

(Programme of the first New York performance, Friday, January 4, 1924)


“HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN”

By Hatcher Hughes

Produced under the personal direction of Alonzo Klaw.


(In Order of Their Appearance)

THE CAST

DAVID HUNT AUGUSTIN DUNCAN
MEG HUNT CLARA BLANDICK
SID HUNT GEORGE ABBOTT
RUFE PRYOR JOHN F. HAMILTON
MATT HUNT BURKE CLARKE
ANDY LOWRY GLENN ANDERS
JUDE LOWRY MARGARET BOROUGH

The Play Staged by Augustin Duncan.

The setting was designed by Alonzo Klaw.

HELL BENT FER HEAVEN

CHARACTERS

(In the order of their appearance)

David Hunt

Meg Hunt

Sid Hunt

Rufe Pryor

Matt Hunt

Andy Lowry

Jude Lowry

Scene: The Hunt home in the Carolina mountains. The action takes place between four o’clock in the afternoon and nine o’clock at night on a midsummer day.

Acts 


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1945, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 78 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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