SONGS OF TRUCE
Brothers of Old, Face in Battle Line
Written by HETTIE GRAY BAKER Produced by COLIN CAMPBELL
CAST
JOE ELIOT Hofcart Bosworth
DUNCAN ELIOT Wheeler Oakman
DORA Bessie Eyton
JOE ELIOT and Duncan Eliot, brothers living in a border state, find their house divided as one
enlists in the army of the North, the other donning the uniform of gray. They part in anger, and
when a year later they meet on the same battlefield under a flag of truce, the old spirit^ of resentment between the brothers grows more acute. Duncan, again inside his lines, plays "Dixie" on his trumpet in defiance, and Joe retorts with "Yankee Doodle." Softly someone breaks this echo of anger and
intones "Home, Sweet Home." Then the heart of each stern man melts and they cry outv "Not Blue
or Gray, but my brother." They do not meet again until the conclusion of the great conflict, when
Joe comes home with the laurels of the victor, and poor, broken Duncan,
ill in the bitterness of defeat. In the home of his father, with the arms
of his sweetheart about him, he finds life still worth the living, and Joe
comes openhanded to help him carve out a new fortune for their families.
SELIG
