title: The Gentleman Press Agent: Fifty Years in the Theatrical Trenches with Merle Debuskey
author:  Robert Simonson 
description: Robert Simonson is the author of two collections of theatre profiles, Role of a Lifetime and On Broadway, Men Still Wear Hats. His writings on theatre and the arts have been published regularly in the New York Times, Variety, the New York Post, the Village Voice, Time Out New York, and Playbill.com, where he was the editor from 1999 to 2006. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Sarah, and their son, Asher.
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  # CHRISTMAS AT THOMPSON HALL
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Adapted from a story by Anthony Trollope By Frank J. Morlock
  
  
  SCENE I
  
  
  SCENE II
  
  
  SCENE III
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
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      Etext by Dagny
  
  
  
      
  
  
  CHARACTERS
  
  
  
  
  
  Mrs. Brown
  
  
  
  
  
  Mr. Brown
  
  
  
  
  
  Mr. Jones
  
  
  
  
  
  Bellboy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### SCENE I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  **An English Hotel Room in the middle of the 19th century