ICEBOUND

ICEBOUND

A Play

BY
OWEN DAVIS

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1923

Copyright, 1922, 1923,
By Owen Davis.

All rights reserved

Published July, 1923

No performance of this play, professional or amateur,—orpublic reading of it—may be given withoutthe written permission of the author and the paymentof royalty. Application for the rights of performing“Icebound” must be made to Sam H. Harris, Sam H.Harris Theatre, New York City.

Printed in the United States of America

With the production of “The Detour,” about a yearago, I managed to secure some measure of success indrawing a simple picture of life as it is lived on a LongIsland farm; encouraged by this, I am now turningtoward my own people, the people of northern NewEngland, whose folklore, up to the present time, hasbeen quite neglected in our theatre. I mean, of course,that few serious attempts have been made in the directionof a genre comedy of this locality. Here I haveat least tried to draw a true picture of these people, andI am of their blood, born of generations of NorthernMaine, small-town folk, and brought up among them.In my memory of them is little of the “Rube” caricatureof the conventional theatre; they are neither buffoonsnor sentimentalists, and at least neither theirfaults nor their virtues are borrowed from the meltingpot but are the direct result of their own heritage andenvironment.

Owen Davis.

1923.

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ICEBOUND

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“Icebound” was originally produced in New York, February10, 1923, with the following cast: