Materials related to rehearsal and performance, including a published copy, which has been annotated as a prompt-book; and 14 handwritten role books, for the following parts (the complete character list): Frau de Lozé; Marion, ihre Tochter; Graf d'Eperville; Alfred de Ribeau; Angelina, Marion's Freundin; Dr. Guenard; Marquis d'Orville; Vicomte de Kerven; Madame de la Hervés; Lucie, ihre Tochter; Madame de Bellejean; Patientin Nr. 38; Baptist, Diener; and eine Wärterin. The published copy, which does not show publishing information, is likely part of Lindau's Theater, published in 1873; the title page gives the date of the play's premiere, March 1869. All of the items are labeled by hand as the property of Theodor Bloch, who was active in German-language theater in Philadelphia from at least the early 1870s until the mid 1890s, first as an actor and later as a prompter, and who ran a theater lending library. (The role books are all of similar appearance and form a set, apparently prepared by Bloch, or at his direction.) Names of actors and actresses noted on some of the role books (as well as noted next to the character list in the published copy) are recognizable from the casts of other German-language plays performed in Philadelphia, and appear to reflect a performance around 1879. (The collection's holdings of theater newspapers and playbills contain no reference to this play.)
