Project Gutenberg 2021-06-27 Public domain in the USA. 90 Dumont, Frank 1848 1919 The Quiet Hotel: A Farcical Sketch in One Act Charlene Taylor, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Quiet Hotel: A Farcical Sketch in One Act" by Frank Dumont is a comedic play written in the early 20th century. This one-act farce centers around a quirky country hotel run by a single staff member, Susan, and a colored porter named Rubber-Neck, who has aspirations of becoming an actor. The work encapsulates the challenges and humorous misadventures that arise when an actress, Miss Calcium, arrives seeking rest yet inadvertently disrupts the tranquility of the hotel with her theatrical ambitions. In the story, Miss Calcium arrives at the “very quiet” hotel, only to encounter the eccentric staff and their humorous interactions. Susan, who essentially runs the whole hotel, and the oblivious Rubber-Neck, engage in a comedic dialogue that reveals their lack of hotel management experience and a shared desire to be involved in theatrical performance. As Miss Calcium attempts to teach them about acting, chaos ensues, culminating in absurd scenarios such as a staged rescue from an imaginary train. The humor lies in the characters’ misunderstandings and aspirations, leading to the creation of their makeshift theater performance, aptly named the Calcium Comedy Company. This lighthearted sketch serves not only as entertainment but also as a satire on the theatrical world and the dreams of its characters. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 87.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en American drama Actresses -- Drama Farces Hotels -- Drama PS Text Category: Humour Category: Plays/Films/Dramas 63967 2025-06-26T06:09:59.573329 text/html 41134 2024-10-18T14:36:42 text/html 375361 2025-06-26T06:10:02.231350 application/epub+zip 374116 2025-06-26T06:10:00.226325 application/epub+zip 115170 2025-06-26T06:09:59.897329 application/epub+zip 416143 2025-06-26T06:10:03.679364 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 402964 2025-06-26T06:10:01.938332 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 144400 2022-09-29T15:04:11.927515 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 43399 2025-06-26T06:09:59.346321 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 23392 2024-10-18T14:36:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17281 2025-06-26T06:10:03.796331 application/rdf+xml 25352 2025-06-26T06:10:00.003353 image/jpeg 3699 2025-06-26T06:09:59.949319 image/jpeg 471456 2025-06-26T06:09:59.593365 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia