title: Modelogues: A Play in Two Acts
author:  Sarah Happel 
description: Writer/Director Sarah Happel - a former international model who was represented by the Ford Agency - is able to capture the real characters in a world that many dream about, talk about and make fun of... --Los Angeles Magazine
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  The Machine
  
  
    
    
  ACT I  
    
  ACT II  
    
  ACT III
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Machine
  
  
  ### Upton Sinclair
  
  
  
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  
  
  
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  * ACT I
  
  
  * ACT II
  
  
  * ACT III
  
  
  
  
  
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  CHARACTERS
  
  
  
  
  
  (In order of appearance)
  
  
  
  
  
  JULIA PATTERSON: a magazine writer.
  
  
  JACK BULLEN: a parlor Socialist.
  
  
  LAURA HEGAN: Hegan's daughter.
  
  
  ALLAN MONTAGUE: a lawyer.
  
  
  JIM HEGAN: the traction king.
  
  
  ANNIE ROBERTS: a girl of the slums.
  
  
  ROBERT GRIMES: the boss.
  
  
  ANDREWS: Hegan's secretary.
  
  
  PARKER: a clerk.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ACT I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [JULIA PATTERSON'S apartments in a model tenement on the lower East
  
  
  Side. The scene shows the living- room, furnished very plainly, but in
  
  
  the newest taste; "arts and crafts" furniture, portraits of Morris and
  
  
  Ruskin on the walls; a centre table, a couple of easy-chairs, a divan
  
  
  and many book-shelves. The entrance from the outer hall 