Excerpt from World Peace: A Spectacle Drama in Three Acts
Right Stage. This part of the stage is set with tables, around which are peasant groups of various European nations. Each group contains fathers, mothers, children, young men and maidens. Fathers smoking, mothers knitting, embroidering, crocheting and fondling children. The men exchange newspapers, discuss politics, pass cigars and cigarettes from table to table, light each other's pipes and clink wine glass with stein, all in peace and good will. Mothers display their work, show each other stitches and compare children.
Young men and maidens nod and smile to each other. Some pair off, a German youth and a French girl - a Russian girl and an Austrian youth, etc. Mild flirtations and innocent love-making.
The children play tag, ball, and marbles between the tables. A Belgian boy draws a long string of wiener-wursts from his pocket; A little English girl snatches a handful of crackers from a table and they feed each other with much laughter.
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