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      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
    • Oscar Schwarz , a German toy-maker.
    • Galatea , a doll.

The place is Germany. The time is the present. The scene is Oscar's work-room.

The scene is the interior of the work-room of a German toy-shop. Across the back, there runs a low, broad latticed window. A large work-bench, back, C. is littered with all sorts of tools. Toys of all sorts are scattered about the room, ad lib. The furnishing, rough and simple, is as foreign in suggestion as possible. At the R. C. is a wooden stand, with a railed top, from which hang calico curtains: concealing the figure within. On the wall, R. is a telephone, which rings, as the curtain is rising. Oscar Schwarz is seated on a stool, R. C., working busily at a steel spring. He is in the blouse of a workman. He is humming or whistling the last few bars of Die Lorelei which is the curtain music .
Oscar .

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Galatea .
( Speaking in the same raucous yell, as that in which she spoke, behind the curtain .)

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

Note: Contains 5 words in 1 sentence using 24 chars.

Oscar .
( Stammering .)

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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( He kisses her again; she smiles, and begins to jerkily descend from her pedestal .)
Galatea .

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( She pauses with her foot in mid-air, with a kick-like motion, as if the spring for a moment refused to work; then, gaining control of herself, jerkily comes down from out of the stand .)
Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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( Her voice throughout this scene is very queer; alternating between a sudden raucous yell, and a hoarse whisper; with as many sudden and droll variations as possible .)
Oscar .

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Galatea .

Note: Contains 60 words in 9 sentences using 275 chars.

Oscar .

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Galatea .

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( Rising to a sudden, calliope-like shriek, on the last word .)
Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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( Her voice is queer on the first word or two; but immediately softens, and she ends in a sweet and girlish tone .)
Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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( She makes as if to loose the band of her petticoat. He hastily stops her .)
Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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( He goes to his table, and takes from a box, the two costumes. Both must be correct; the French gown dainty and chic; the German one pretty and simple; but both must be made on the princess model, in a single piece, so that they can be easily slipped on .)
Galatea .
( Catching at the French gown .)

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .
( Hastily .)

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( He hands her the beer, which she drinks ecstatically, as before .)
Galatea .

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Oscar .
( Fastens the gown rapidly but awkwardly .)

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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( Oscar catches her as she almost falls .)
Oscar .

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Galatea .

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Oscar .

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Galatea .

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( Curtain .)
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TextGrid Repository (2024). American Drama. Galatea of the Toy-Shop. Galatea of the Toy-Shop. American Drama Corpus. Mathias Göbel. https://hdl.handle.net/21.11113/0000-0014-9FBF-1