Excerpt from Drums of Oude a Drama in One Act

Music before curtain rises to he of that mysterious, nervous Indian quality, in a minor key, with the barbaric drum-beat measure throughout.

All lights out. Theatre in total darkness. Drumming is heard from beyond the stage, mingled with faint cries. This drumming must be great in volume, yet low in key. It stops short.

Repeats itself and again stops short. The Curtain has gone up in the darkness. The audience first become aware of the moonlit Indian City, in the distance, over the top of an intervening forest.

Then they see the outline of the archway and the stage itself, which is a storeroom in an old Indian Palace, now occupied by the British. There is no furniture in the room except a Piano, R., and a business desk, R., rear. A large Indian carpet is upon the floor. The only decorations being two crossed swords on either side of the arch.

Sentry Stewart, in Highland uniform, passes beyond the arch, in the moonlight, from R. to L. Pause. He returns. Pause. T%en again from R. to L. The drumming swells in the distance and seems to come from the Indian City.

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