Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FESTIVAL OF BACCHUS A Comedy Of Words Persons Felix Staufner, writer. Agnes, his wife. Dr. Guido Wernig. Railway Guard. Waiter. Buffet-dispenser (a woman). Passengers and Station employes. The action takes place in the railroad waiting room of a large Austrian city in the mountains. [SCENE: Station and restaurant. In the rear glass doors giving onto the platform. Right a stairway conducting downstairs. On the left is the buffet, with a clock above it. A number of tables, covered and uncovered, with chairs. A blackboard near the middle platform door, right. On the watt are time-tables, maps, posters. The buffet dispenser is busy behind the buffet. Several people are seated at the tables. The guard stands by the middle platform door, which is open. As the curtain rises the train has just come in. Passengers enter from the platform and pass through thedining room on the right, using the steps. On the left Agnes and Guido are standing, almost motionless, with their eyes fixed intently on the door as if expecting someone. When the last of the passengers has passed through the waiting room, Guido steps up to the door and peers out on the platform. He makes a step as if to go out but is intercepted by the guard. Agnes in the meantime has also loitered up to the door.] Guido. There's no one else. Agnes. Strange! Guido. Was that the Innsbruck train? [The Guard locks the door.] Guard. No, sir. Guido. No ? Guard. That was the Bavarian express. The Innsbruck train is scheduled to arrive at 5.20. Guido. Why do you say " is scheduled to arrive"? Guard. Because it's almost always late. However, there has been no report yet. Guido. You mean that it will arrive on time? Guard. No, that it will be late. [Goes off left by the step... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.