The principal characters in the play appear to have been grouped in a kind of tableau on the stage while the prologue was delivered, in this as in some other plays. The prologist informs the audience that the two captives who stand in chains on his right and left, are Philocrates, a young noble of Elis, and his slave Tyndarus.

Where a landscape-gardener charges five guineas a day, and takes with him either a draughtsman or valet, or both, he is entitled to travel in a postchaise […]

In mid-1936, the steel plant's deputy director, Khazanov, revealed that according to factory administration data there were 3,663 Stackhanovites at the steel plant, but according to the records of the trade union committee, there were 4,441. “In our shops,” he commented, “there are insufficiently precise criteria for determining Stakhanovites.”

Apart from its unique public viewing gallery, the depot features 40-ton capacity shear legs which will be complemented shortly by an overhead lifting crane.