What Price Glory?
What Price Glory?
Author: Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings
First Performance: 1924, New York
Published: 1926
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Farmhouse and cellar near the battlefront in France, 1918
Cast: 26m, 1f
In a French farmhouse converted into the headquarters of a detachment of US Marines, Captain Flagg is preparing to go on leave in Paris. His friend and rival First Sergeant Quirt, who is placed in charge of the men, consoles Charmaine, the local innkeeper's daughter, over Flagg's departure. A week later Flagg returns, having been imprisoned for assaulting a military policeman. Charmaine's father insists that Flagg should marry his daughter, but a call to battle intervenes. In a cellar at the battlefront, news of the terrible slaughter arrives and casualties are carried in. One...
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