A messy, sunlit artist's studio apartment with a large skylight showing city buildings, stairs, paint cans, and a drop cloth.

A large one-room apartment on the top floor of an old brownstone in the East Forties off Third Ave- nue. The room is barren. A ladder, canvas drop cloth, and a couple of empty paint cans stand forlornly in the center of the room. There is a huge skylight which pours the bright February SUNSHINE glar- ingly into the room. Through the skylight we can see the roofs and windows of brownstones across the street and the framework of a large building under. construction. Crests of clinging snow can be seen in the two windows under the skylight. At Stage Right, there is the entrance door, a step below the apartment itself. At Stage Left, four steps lead to a raised area from which two doors open, the Upstage one leading to a bathroom, the Left one to the bed- room. Although we can't see much of the latter, we will soon learn that it isn't really a bedroom. It's a dressing room, about 6' x 4'. The bathroom has no tub. Just a shower and a sink and what have you. On another raised section Up Right is the kitchen. It's not really a kitchen. It's just an old stove, an older refrigerator and a chipped sink that stands nakedly between them. Upstage Left of this area is another platform on which stand a steamer trunk and a few suitcases. The room has just been freshly painted. Not carefully, maybe not professionally, but painted. There is a small Franklin Stove Downstage Left below the platform, and an open closet Downstage Right. Completing the furnishings of the room are a railing that Mehr sehen