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Grandmother Page at the Soldiers Home in Pygmalion Play
Narrator Bilbeck, a vain columnist, joins an amateur troupe to stage Pygmalion at the Old Soldiers Home near Fair Oaks. The voyage includes comical mishaps with a bass drummer Pilk Henweather and a fraught rehearsal in winter, amid a chorus of veterans and a revealing performance.
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Tom Bilbeck
Grandmother Page
Maryella
Jim Cooper
Old Soldiers
Bilbeck
Cooper
Pilk Henweather
Sonsa
Stewart
Colonel Stewart
Three Bears Lake
Fair Oaks
Mr. Bilbeck
Pink Henweather
Henry Klingman
Klingaan
Pilk
Henry
Chancellorsville
Henweather
Herb Ahlswede
Ahlswede
Ahswede
Mrs. Hemming
Galatea
Mrs. Hemmingway
Henwether