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BAKER COMPANY</big><br /> -BOSTON</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>Plays for Colleges and High Schools</h2> - - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Plays for Colleges and High Schools"> -<tr><td></td><td><i>Males</i></td><td><i>Females</i></td><td colspan="2"><i>Time</i></td><td><i>Price</i></td><td><i>Royalty</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Air Spy</td><td>12</td><td>4</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>hrs.</td><td>35c</td><td>$10.00</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Bachelor Hall</td><td>8</td><td>4</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>$5.00</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The College Chap</td><td>11</td><td>7</td><td align="left">2½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>Free</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Colonel's Maid</td><td>6</td><td>3</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Daddy</td><td>4</td><td>4</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Deacon's Second Wife</td><td>6</td><td>6</td><td align="left">2½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The District Attorney</td><td>10</td><td>6</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Dutch Detective</td><td>5</td><td>5</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">At the Sign of the Shooting Star</td><td>10</td><td>10</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Elopement of Ellen</td><td>4</td><td>3</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Engaged by Wednesday</td><td>5</td><td>11</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Chuzzlewitts, or Tom Pinch</td><td>15</td><td>6</td><td align="left">2¼</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">For One Night Only</td><td>5</td><td>4</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Hamilton</td><td>11</td><td>5</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>60c</td><td>$25.00</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Constantine Pueblo Jones</td><td>10</td><td>4</td><td align="left">2¼</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>Free</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Excuse Me</td><td>4</td><td>6</td><td align="left">1¼</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Hoodoo</td><td>6</td><td>12</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Hurdy Gurdy Girl</td><td>9</td><td>9</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Katy Did</td><td>4</td><td>8</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Let's Get Married</td><td>3</td><td>5</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>60c</td><td>$10.00</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">London Assurance</td><td>10</td><td>3</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>Free</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Lost a Chaperon</td><td>6</td><td>9</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Foul Tip</td><td>7</td><td>3</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Man Who Went</td><td>7</td><td>3</td><td align="left">2½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>$10.00</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Man Without a Country</td><td>6</td><td>5</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>Free</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Master Pierre Patelin</td><td>4</td><td>1</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>60c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">How Jim Made Good</td><td>7</td><td>3</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Just Plain Mary</td><td>7</td><td>13</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Line Busy</td><td>5</td><td>19</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Mr. Bob</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Mrs. Briggs of the Poultry Yard</td><td>4</td><td>7</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Nathan Hale</td><td>15</td><td>4</td><td align="left">2½</td><td>"</td><td>60c</td><td>$10.00</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Patty Makes Things Hum</td><td>4</td><td>6</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>Free</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Professor Pepp</td><td>8</td><td>8</td><td align="left">2½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Regiment of Two</td><td>6</td><td>4</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Private Tutor</td><td>5</td><td>3</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Rivals</td><td>9</td><td>5</td><td align="left">2½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Silas Marner</td><td>19</td><td>4</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">When a Feller Needs a Friend</td><td>5</td><td>5</td><td align="left">2¼</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>$10.00</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Sally Lunn</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>Free</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The School for Scandal</td><td>12</td><td>4</td><td align="left">2½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">She Stoops to Conquer</td><td>15</td><td>4</td><td align="left">2½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Step Lively</td><td>4</td><td>10</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Submarine Shell</td><td>7</td><td>4</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>$10.00</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Thirteenth Star</td><td></td><td>9</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>Free</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Time of His Life</td><td>6</td><td>3</td><td align="left">2½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Tommy's Wife</td><td>3</td><td>5</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Twig of Thorn</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>75c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Amazons</td><td>7</td><td>5</td><td align="left">2½</td><td>"</td><td>60c</td><td>$10.00</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Conjurer</td><td>8</td><td>4</td><td align="left">2¼</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>$10.00</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p class="center">BAKER, Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<p class="center"><big>Santa Claus Gets His Wish</big></p> - -<p class="center space-above">A Christmas Play in One Act<br /> -For Young Children</p> - - -<p class="center space-above">By<br /> -BLANCHE PROCTOR FISHER<br /> -<i>Author of "Finding the Mayflowers"</i></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 111px;"><br /> -<img src="images/titlepage.jpg" width="111" height="135" alt="logo" /> -</div> - -<p class="center space-above">BOSTON<br /> -WALTER H. BAKER COMPANY<br /> -1921</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<p class="center"><big>Santa Claus Gets His Wish</big></p> - -<p class="center">A Play for Children</p> - -<hr /> - -<h2>CHARACTERS</h2> - -<p class="center"> -<span class="smcap">First Imp.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Second Imp.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Sand-Man.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Wish-Bone.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Lollipop.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Ice-Cream Cone.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Little Girl.</span><br /> -</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 222px;"> -<img src="images/versoimage.jpg" width="222" height="163" alt="two masks" /> -</div> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Copyright, 1921, by Walter H. Baker Company</span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - - - -<h2>SUGGESTIONS FOR CHARACTERS</h2> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Imps.</span> In red sweaters and red masks covering the -head, with a little peak over each ear.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sand-Man.</span> In gray tunic and gray pointed cap.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wish-Bone.</span> Is a slender boy holding his arms close -to his body and walking stiffly with legs spread far apart.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Lollipop.</span> A very slender boy with his head wrapped -loosely in red tissue-paper.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Ice-Cream Cone.</span> A little boy encased in a cornucopia -of heavy wrapping-paper with some soft white -material showing at the top about his face.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> - - - -<h2>Santa Claus Gets His Wish</h2> - -<hr /> -<blockquote> - -<p>SCENE.—<i>The interior of</i> <span class="smcap">Santa Claus's</span> <i>home on -Christmas Eve. There is a door on each side of the -stage, and a fireplace at the back.</i> <span class="smcap">Santa Claus's</span> <i>big -easy-chair is near the front of the stage at the left, and -near the front at the right is a table</i>.</p> - -<p>(<i>As the curtain rises the two</i> <span class="smcap">Imps</span> <i>are seated on the -floor, each with a section of harness, the bells of -which they are industriously polishing</i>.)</p></blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp.</span> You must hurry. It's almost seven -o'clock, and soon it will be time to harness the reindeer.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Second Imp.</span> I am hurrying as fast as I can. I shall -get through now before you do, and my bells will be just -as bright as yours. It seems to me that the more I -shine them the sweeter their tone is.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp.</span> I am polishing mine so bright that when -Santa Claus drives through the sky all the people will -look up and think they see stars twinkling overhead.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Second Imp.</span> And I make my bells so bright that -when they chime the children will hear them in their -sleep and dream they are listening to birds singing in the -springtime.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp</span> (<i>scornfully</i>). What nonsense! How many -children to-night do you suppose are dreaming of birds -and springtime?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Second Imp.</span> Why shouldn't they?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp.</span> Why should they,—when there are so -many other things to dream of at Christmas time? If -you don't believe me, we'll leave it to Santa Claus. Here -he comes now. Hooray!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>(<i>As</i> <span class="smcap">Santa Claus</span> <i>enters from</i> <span class="smcap lowercase">L.</span> <i>of stage the</i> <span class="smcap">Imps</span> -<i>run to meet him, and holding an end of the harness -in each hand form a ring and dance around him in -time to the jingling of the bells</i>.)</p></blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> Hold on! Hold on there! When a -fellow gets to be my age his head isn't steady enough to -stand any such merry-go-'round as this. Come on now, -let's see if you've done your work properly and polished -the bells as I told you.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>(<i>He sits down in his big armchair and the</i> <span class="smcap">Imps</span> <i>climb -upon his lap</i>.)</p></blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp.</span> I said I would make my bells so bright -that people would think they were twinkling stars.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Second Imp.</span> And <i>I</i> said——</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp</span> (<i>interrupting</i>). Never mind what <i>you</i> -said. There wasn't any sense to that. Santa Claus, -tell us, what do children dream about at Christmas time?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> What do children dream about? Why, -they dream about me, of course.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Both Imps</span> (<i>each shaking a finger at him</i>). O-ho!</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> There! I suppose you think I'm a -conceited old chap, but if you don't believe me we'll ask -the Sand-Man. (<i>The</i> <span class="smcap">Sand-Man</span> <i>enters</i>, <span class="smcap lowercase">L.</span> <i>door, carrying -a big bag over his shoulder, and a small bag in his -hand</i>.) Just starting off on your rounds, I see. Have -you a heavy load to-night?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sand-Man.</span> The sand-bag is heavy, but the dream-bag -is light. There isn't much to a dream, you know;—just -a whiff of fairy powder wrapped up in a bit of mist. -But they do the trick all the same,—and how the children -love them.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> And what are these dreams which the -children love? Are any of them about me?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sand-Man.</span> Why, no, Santa. Of course they <i>used</i> -to be, but times have changed, you see. Children nowadays -have so many interests.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> But I thought perhaps just at Christmas -time—<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span>—</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sand-Man.</span> Yes, I know, I know. Yet, after all, -dreams are really a matter of habit. It's the things which -the children enjoy all through the year that stay in their -minds after they fall asleep.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> Well, what are these things which the -children enjoy all the year and dream about every night?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sand-Man.</span> Ah! That would be telling. Mustn't -give away the secrets of the trade, you know. Well, -I'm off. See you later.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>[<i>Exit</i>, <span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> <i>door</i>.</p></blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus</span> (<i>to the</i> <span class="smcap">Imps</span>). Run out with him, boys, -and help him down the steps with his bags. (<i>Exeunt</i> -<span class="smcap">Imps</span>.) H'm! I didn't find out what I wanted to, did -I? I wish I could, though (<i>Yawning.</i>), I wish I could; -but what's the old saying: "If wishes were horses, beggars -might ride"? Holloa! Who's this coming? (<i>The</i> -<span class="smcap">Wish-Bone</span> <i>enters</i>, <span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> <i>door</i>.) How strangely he walks,—must -be kind o' stiff in his joints, or else he hasn't any -joints at all. Good-evening, friend, who might you be?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wish-Bone</span> (<i>in a melancholy tone</i>). My name is -Wish-Bone. I am all that's left of the Thanksgiving -turkey.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus</span> (<i>sympathetically</i>). I say, now, that's -rather a lonely fate for you; but cheer up, it might be -worse.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wish-Bone</span> (<i>in the same melancholy tone</i>). It will -be worse. I expect to be laid up with a broken leg most -any day now.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> Broken leg? Why, bless my stars, man, -what makes you expect anything like that to happen?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wish-Bone.</span> It always happens to us wish-bones; -runs in the family. Sometimes it's both legs that are -broken, and the head flies off; and that's the greatest -pity of all, for then there isn't any one gets their wish.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> Is your business something like mine, -then; giving people whatever they wish?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wish-Bone.</span> N-no,-not exactly <i>giving</i> it,—just -promising it. But it all amounts to the same thing. -Once make people believe they'll get what they wish for, -and somehow it always comes in the end.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> Then perhaps you can help me out.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> -My great wish just at present is to know what the children -are dreaming about to-night.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wish-Bone.</span> Sorry to refuse you, but I'm not ready -for business yet. Don't feel quite equal to it. Wait -until I get a little more snap in me, and then I'll call -around again. Good-night.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>[<i>Exit</i> <span class="smcap">Wish-Bone</span>, <span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> <i>door</i>.</p></blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> He's about the gloomiest creature I -ever saw; and yet he struck sort of a hopeful note when -he said people would get what they wished for if they -only believed it. I wonder how that would work out in -my case. (<i>The</i> <span class="smcap">Sand-Man</span> <i>enters</i>, <span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> <i>door</i>.) Ah! here -comes the Sand-Man back again. Well, how did things -go with you to-night? Is your sand-bag empty?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sand-Man.</span> Almost. It takes a powerful lot of sand -to make the children sleepy the night before Christmas.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> And are the dreams all gone too?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Sand-Man.</span> Not quite. There was one little girl who -refused to go to bed at all, because she is so anxious to -see Santa Claus when he comes. I had two nice dreams -picked out for her but I couldn't use them. Well, my -evening's work is over. (<i>Dropping his bags on the -table.</i>) I suppose you'll be starting soon now.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> Pretty soon. But what you told me -about that little girl has put me on my guard. It would -never do to let her see me while I am filling her stocking. -So I think I'll sit down by the fire and wait for a few -minutes. She won't be able to keep awake very long. -If you see my Imps around anywhere, send them along -in here. Lazy little scamps! It's time they were helping -me to pack up the toys. (<i>As the</i> <span class="smcap">Sand-Man</span> <i>goes -out</i>, <span class="smcap lowercase">L.</span> <i>door</i>, <span class="smcap">Santa Claus</span> <i>draws his chair up to the -fireplace, where he sits musing with his eyes half-closed; -yawning</i>.) I—wish—I—could—know—what the children -are dreaming about to-night.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>(<i>The two</i> <span class="smcap">Imps</span> <i>enter</i>, <span class="smcap lowercase">L.</span> <i>door, and tiptoe forward cautiously</i>.)</p></blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp</span> (<i>whispers</i>). Is Santa Claus asleep?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Second Imp.</span> No, he's only thinking. But we could -make him go to sleep if we wanted to. Here's the Sand-Man's -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>bag, and it isn't quite empty. Wouldn't it be fun -to drop some sand in Santa's eyes!</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp.</span> Hush! He'll hear you.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>(<i>They creep up behind</i> <span class="smcap">Santa Claus</span> <i>and toss the sand -in his face. He yawns again.</i>)</p></blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Second Imp.</span> I think he's almost asleep now. Here -are two dreams in the dream-bag. Let's open them.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp.</span> Look out there, clumsy, you're spilling -them!</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Second Imp.</span> They were so light I couldn't help it. -The fairy powder is flying all around the room. It's -filling the air so that I can't see. Are you afraid?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp.</span> Of course not. There's nothing to be -afraid of. Listen! Some one is coming.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>(<i>As the light grows dim, soft, slow music is heard, -and the</i> <span class="smcap">Lollipop</span> <i>appears at the</i> <span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> <i>of the stage and -moves slowly across to the</i> <span class="smcap lowercase">L.</span>, <i>in time to the music.</i>)</p></blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Second Imp</span> (<i>whispering</i>). That looks like one of -those red-headed lollipops that Santa Claus made to put -in the children's stockings. Do you s'pose that one has -escaped from the box?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp.</span> I don't think it's a real lollipop. Maybe -it's only a dream. See! It's vanishing away.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>(<i>The</i> <span class="smcap">Lollipop</span> <i>disappears.</i> <span class="smcap">Santa Claus</span> <i>stirs in his -sleep, while the music, slightly louder, changes to a -livelier tune. The</i> <span class="smcap">Ice-Cream Cone</span> <i>enters through -the</i> <span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> <i>door and crosses the stage dancing a jig.</i>)</p></blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Second Imp.</span> Oh, how funny! What is it?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp.</span> That is an ice-cream cone. All children -love to eat them.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Second Imp.</span> Why, I could make one of those. If I -took a tin trumpet from Santa Claus's toy-shop and piled -it full of snow 'twould be just the same thing, wouldn't -it?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp.</span> No—for even if you were to eat the snow -all up, the tin trumpet would still be left in your hand.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> -But there's never anything left of an ice-cream cone. -Didn't you notice how quickly this one went, almost as -soon as it came?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Second Imp.</span> But that is because it was only a dream.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp.</span> That hasn't anything to do with it. A -real ice-cream cone wouldn't have lasted much longer. -Sh! Who's coming now? (<i>As the</i> <span class="smcap">Ice-Cream Cone</span> -<i>disappears the music stops, and the light grows bright -again. The</i> <span class="smcap">Little Girl</span> <i>enters at the</i> <span class="smcap lowercase">R.</span> <i>She is wrapped -in a muffler and carries a lighted lantern. Coming toward -the front of the stage she stops in terror on seeing -the</i> <span class="smcap">Imps</span>.) Don't be frightened, little girl. We're only -Santa Claus's imps. We won't hurt you.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Little Girl.</span> Then this really is where Santa Claus -lives, and I didn't make a mistake in the place? Please -tell me, is Santa Claus at home? Oh, there he is asleep -by the fire. (<i>She puts her lantern on the floor and goes -up to</i> <span class="smcap">Santa Claus</span>.) Santa Claus! Dear Santa Claus! -Please wake up. It's getting very late.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus</span> (<i>rubbing his eyes</i>). Why, bless my -soul! I must have been napping. And who are you, -my dear?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Little Girl.</span> I'm the little girl who wouldn't go to -bed to-night, for I wanted to sit up to see Santa Claus. -But I waited and waited, and you didn't come. Oh, -Santa Claus, don't say that you're not coming at all. -The children would be <i>so</i> disappointed.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> The children are happy. They are -having sweet dreams. Ah! I know now what they're -dreaming about. Lollipops and ice-cream cones. They're -not thinking much about poor old Santa Claus.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Little Girl.</span> Oh, but Santa Claus, we do think about -you very often. We love you much more than we do -the lollipops and the ice-cream cones, for they just melt -away and don't last at all.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> And what makes you think that I -would last any longer?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Little Girl.</span> Well, you know, Santa, you've already -lasted a great many years.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Santa Claus.</span> Kind of a slam on my age, that is.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> -But it's true, every word of it. I have lasted a great many -years, and the best part of it is, I'm good for as many -years more. So if the children are expecting me, we'd -better hurry and be off. (<i>To the</i> <span class="smcap">Imps</span>.) Bring along -your harness there, boys; it's time to hitch up the reindeer. -Wrap your muffler around you tight, little girl. -We're going to have a cold ride. Here, isn't this your -lantern?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Little Girl.</span> I shan't need the light of the lantern -now, for the bells on your harness are so bright they shine -like stars.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">First Imp.</span> That's exactly what I said when I was -cleaning them.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Second Imp.</span> And I said that their tones were so clear -that the children would believe they were the birds singing -in the springtime. I was right too, wasn't I?</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Little Girl.</span> No, you foolish Imp. When the children -hear Santa Claus's sleigh-bells ringing they will -smile in their sleep and think that they are listening to -the music of the Christmas carols.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>(<i>As the curtain falls the</i> <span class="smcap">Imps</span> <i>jingle the bells, while -behind the scenes voices sing "Carol, brothers, -carol," or some other appropriate Christmas song.</i>)</p></blockquote> - - -<p class="center space-above">CURTAIN</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - - - -<h2>THE CONJURER</h2> - -<p class="center">A Dramatic Mystery in Three Acts</p> - -<p class="center"><i>By Mansfield Scott</i><br /> - -<i>Author of "The Submarine Shell," "The Air-Spy," etc.</i></p> - - -<p>Eight male, four female characters. Costumes, modern; scenery, two -easy interiors. Plays a full evening. Royalty for amateur performance, -$10.00 for the first and $5.00 each for subsequent performances by the -same company. Free for school performance. George Clifford, incapacitated -for service at the front, employs his great talents as a conjurer -to raise money for the soldiers. He is utilized by Inspector Steele, of the -U. S. Secret Service, in a plan to discover certain foreign spies. The plan -goes wrong and involves seven persons in suspicion of a serious crime. -Clifford's clever unravelling of this tangled skein constitutes the thrilling -plot of this play, the interest of which is curiously like that of the popular -"Thirteenth Chair." This is not a "war-play" save in a very remote -and indirect way, but a clever detective story of absorbing interest. -Strongly recommended.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>Price, 35 cents</i></p> - - -<h3>CHARACTERS</h3> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="Characters in The Conjurer"> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Inspector Malcome Steele.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Driscoll Wells.</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">George Clifford.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Doctor Gordon Peak.</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Captain Frank Drummond Gleason.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Detective White.</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Lieutenant Hamilton Warwick.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Marion Anderson.</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Colonel Willard Anderson.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Edith Anderson.</span></td></tr> -<tr><td></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Ellen Gleason.</span></td></tr> -<tr><td></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Dorothy Elmstrom.</span></td></tr> -</table></div> - -<h3>SYNOPSIS</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Act I.</span>—The home of Colonel Anderson (Friday evening).</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Act II.</span>—The office of Inspector Steele (Saturday afternoon).</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Act III.</span>—The same as Act II (Saturday evening).</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>THE OTHER VOICE</h2> - -<p class="center">A Play in One Act</p> - -<p class="center"><i>By S.</i> vK. <i>Fairbanks</i></p> - - -<p>Three voices, preferably male, are employed in this little novelty which -is intended to be presented upon a dark stage upon which nothing is -actually visible save starlight. It was originally produced at Workshop -47, Cambridge, where its effective distillation of the essential oil of tragedy -was curiously successful. An admirable item for any programme seeking -variety of material and effect. Naturally no costumes nor scenery are required, -save a drop carrying stars and possibly a city sky-line. Plays ten -minutes only; royalty, $5.00.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>Price, 25 cents</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - - -<h2>A COUPLE OF MILLION</h2> - -<p class="center">An American Comedy in Four Acts</p> - -<p class="center"><i>By Walter Ben Hare</i><br /> - -Author of "Professor Pepp," "Much Ado About Betty," -"The Hoodoo," "The Dutch Detective," etc.</p> - - -<p>Six males, five females. Costumes, modern; scenery, two interiors -and an exterior. Plays a full evening. Royalty, ten dollars ($10.00) for -each performance. A more ambitious play by this popular author in the -same successful vein as his previous offerings. Bemis Bennington is left -two million dollars by his uncle on condition that he shall live for one -year in a town of less than five thousand inhabitants and during that -period marry and earn without other assistance than his own industry and -ability the sum of five thousand dollars. Failing to accomplish this the -money goes to one Professor Noah Jabb. This is done despite the energetic -opposition of Jabb, who puts up a very interesting fight. A capital play -that can be strongly recommended. Plenty of good comedy and a great -variety of good parts, full of opportunity.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>Price, 35 cents</i></p> - - -<h3>CHARACTERS</h3> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="Characters in A Couple of Million"> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Bemis Bennington.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Fay Fairbanks.</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Hon. Jeremy Wise.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Mrs. Clarice Courtenay.</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">James Patrick Burns</span>, "<i>Stubby</i>."</td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Genevieve McGully.</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Professor Noah Jabb.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Sammie Bell Porter.</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Beverly Loman.</span></td><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Pink.</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Squire Piper.</span></td></tr> -<tr><td colspan="2"><i>Several Hill-Billies.</i></td></tr> -</table></div> - -<h3>SYNOPSIS</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Act I.</span>—The law office of Hon. Jeremy Wise, New York City. -A morning in July.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Act II.</span>—The exterior of the court-house, Opaloopa, Alabama. -An afternoon in October.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Act III.</span>—Same as Act II. The next afternoon.</p> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Act IV.</span>—Mrs. Courtenay's sitting-room, Opaloopa, Alabama. -A night in April.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>ISOSCELES</h2> - -<p class="center">A Play in One Act</p> - -<p class="center"><i>By Walter Ben Hare</i></p> - - -<p>Two male, one female characters. Costumes, modern; scene, an interior. -Plays twenty minutes. Royalty $2.50 for each performance. An -admirable little travesty of the conventional emotional recipe calling for -husband, wife and lover. Played in the proper spirit of burlesque it is -howlingly funny. Strongly recommended for the semi-professional uses -of schools of acting. A capital bit for a benefit or exhibition programme, -offering a decided novelty.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>Price, 25 cents</i></p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>NO TRESPASSING</h2> - -<p class="center">A Play in Three Acts</p> - -<p class="center"><i>By Evelyn Gray Whiting</i></p> - - -<p>Six males, five females. Costumes, modern; scenery, a single easy interior. -Plays two hours. Free of royalty. Lisle Irving, a lively "city -girl," goes down into the country on a vacation and to get rid of a husband -of her father's choice whom she has never seen, and runs into the -very man living there under another name. He meets her by accident -and takes her to be one of a pair of twins who have been living at the -farmhouse. She discovers his mistake and in the character of both twins -in alternation gives him the time of his life, incidentally falling in love -with him. An unusual abundance of good comedy characters, including -one—Bill Meader—of great originality and humor, sure to make a big -hit. Strongly recommended.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>Price, 35 cents</i></p> - - -<h3>CHARACTERS</h3> - -<blockquote> -<p> -<span class="smcap">Bill Meader</span>, "<i>on the town</i>."<br /> -<span class="smcap">Jim Meader</span>, <i>son of Bill, a boy of sixteen to eighteen</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Mr. Palmer</span>, <i>a New England farmer</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Cleveland Tower</span>, <i>a young city fellow, guest of Raynor</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Herbert Edmand Raynor</span>, <i>a young Englishman</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Mr. Irving</span>, <i>father of Lisle</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Lisle Irving</span>, <i>a girl of seventeen</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Peggy Palmer</span>, <i>a girl of eighteen or twenty</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Mrs. Palmer</span>, <i>Peggy's mother</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Barbara Palmer</span>, <i>a girl of ten or twelve years</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Almeda Meader</span>, <i>a girl about Barbara's age</i>.<br /> -</p> -</blockquote> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>THE GIRL UP-STAIRS</h2> - -<p class="center">A Comedy in Two Acts</p> - -<p class="center"><i>By Gladys Ruth Bridgham</i></p> - - -<p>Seven females. Costumes, modern; scenery, an interior. Plays an -hour. Daisy Jordan, crazy to get "on the stage," comes to New York -and starves there in a lodging house waiting for her chance. She schemes -to get an interview with Cicely Denver, a popular actress, to act before -her, but the result is not at all what she intended. A capital play with -strong and ingenious opportunities for good acting. Recommended.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>Price, 25 cents</i></p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>TICKETS, PLEASE!</h2> - -<p class="center">A Comedy in One Act</p> - -<p class="center"><i>By Irving Dale</i></p> - - -<p>Four females. Costumes, modern and fashionable; scenery, an interior, -not important. Plays twenty minutes. Mignon asks Charlotte to -get the theatre tickets, Charlotte asks Maude to get them, Maude hands -over three to Linda, who leaves two at Mignon's house after she has left -home. But they get to the theatre somehow. Bright, funny and characteristic. -Strongly recommended.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>Price, 25 cents</i></p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>HITTY'S SERVICE FLAG</h2> - -<p class="center">A Comedy in Two Acts</p> - -<p class="center"><i>By Gladys Ruth Bridgham</i></p> - - -<p>Eleven female characters. Costumes, modern; scenery, an interior. -Plays an hour and a quarter. Hitty, a patriotic spinster, quite alone in -the world, nevertheless hangs up a service flag in her window without -any right to do so, and opens a Tea Room for the benefit of the Red -Cross. She gives shelter to Stella Hassy under circumstances that close -other doors against her, and offers refuge to Marjorie Winslow and her -little daughter, whose father in France finally gives her the right to the -flag. A strong dramatic presentation of a lovable character and an ideal -patriotism. Strongly recommended, especially for women's clubs.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>Price, 25 cents</i></p> - - -<h3>CHARACTERS</h3> - -<blockquote> -<p> -<span class="smcap">Mehitable Judson</span>, <i>aged 70</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Luella Perkins</span>, <i>aged 40</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Stasia Brown</span>, <i>aged 40</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Mildred Emerson</span>, <i>aged 16</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Marjorie Winslow</span>, <i>aged 25</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Barbara Winslow</span>, <i>her daughter, aged 6</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Stella Hassy</span>, <i>aged 25, but claims to be younger</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Mrs. Irving Winslow</span>, <i>aged 45</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Marion Winslow</span>, <i>her daughter, aged 20</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Mrs. Esterbrook</span>, <i>aged 45</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Mrs. Cobb</span>, <i>anywhere from 40 to 60</i>.<br /> -</p> - -</blockquote> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>THE KNITTING CLUB MEETS</h2> - -<p class="center">A Comedy in One Act</p> - -<p class="center"><i>By Helen Sherman Griffith</i></p> - - -<p>Nine female characters. Costumes, modern; scenery, an interior. -Plays half an hour. Eleanor will not forego luxuries nor in other ways -"do her bit," putting herself before her country; but when her old -enemy, Jane Rivers, comes to the Knitting Club straight from France to -tell the story of her experiences, she is moved to forget her quarrel and -leads them all in her sacrifices to the cause. An admirably stimulating -piece, ending with a "melting pot" to which the audience may also be -asked to contribute. Urged as a decided novelty in patriotic plays.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>Price, 25 cents</i></p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>GETTING THE RANGE</h2> - -<p class="center">A Comedy in One Act</p> - -<p class="center"><i>By Helen Sherman Griffith</i></p> - - -<p>Eight female characters. Costumes, modern; scenery, an exterior. -Well suited for out of door performances. Plays an hour and a quarter. -Information of value to the enemy somehow leaks out from a frontier -town and the leak cannot be found or stopped. But Captain Brooke, of -the Secret Service, finally locates the offender amid a maze of false clues, -in the person of a washerwoman who hangs out her clothes day after day in -ways and places to give the desired information. A capital play, well -recommended.</p> - -<p class="center"><i>Price, 25 cents</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h2>Plays for Junior High Schools</h2> - - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Plays for Junior High Schools"> -<tr><td></td><td><i>Males</i></td><td><i>Females</i></td><td colspan="2"><i>Time</i></td><td><i>Price</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Sally Lunn</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>hrs.</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Mr. Bob</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Man from Brandon</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Box of Monkeys</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td align="left">1¼</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Rice Pudding</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td align="left">1¼</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Class Day</td><td>4</td><td>3</td><td align="right">¾</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Chums</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td align="right">¾</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">An Easy Mark</td><td>5</td><td>2</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Pa's New Housekeeper</td><td>3</td><td>2</td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Not On the Program</td><td>3</td><td>3</td><td align="right">¾</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Cool Collegians</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Elopement of Ellen</td><td>4</td><td>3</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Tommy's Wife</td><td>3</td><td>5</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Johnny's New Suit</td><td>2</td><td>5</td><td align="right">¾</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Thirty Minutes for Refreshment</td><td>4</td><td>3</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">West of Omaha</td><td>4</td><td>3</td><td align="right">¾</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Flying Wedge</td><td>3</td><td>5</td><td align="right">¾</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My Brother's Keeper</td><td>5</td><td>3</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Private Tutor</td><td>5</td><td>3</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Me an' Otis</td><td>5</td><td>4</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Up to Freddie</td><td>3</td><td>6</td><td align="left">1¼</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My Cousin Timmy</td><td>2</td><td>8</td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Aunt Abigail and the Boys</td><td>9</td><td>2</td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Caught Out</td><td>9</td><td>2</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Constantine Pueblo Jones</td><td>10</td><td>4</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Cricket On the Hearth</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Deacon's Second Wife</td><td>6</td><td>6</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Five Feet of Love</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Hurdy Gurdy Girl</td><td>9</td><td>9</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Camp Fidelity Girls</td><td>1</td><td>11</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Carroty Nell</td><td></td><td>15</td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Case for Sherlock Holmes</td><td></td><td>10</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Clancey Kids</td><td></td><td>14</td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Happy Day</td><td></td><td>7</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">I Grant You Three Wishes</td><td></td><td>14</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Just a Little Mistake</td><td>1</td><td>5</td><td align="right">¾</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Land of Night</td><td></td><td>18</td><td align="left">1¼</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Local and Long Distance</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Original Two Bits</td><td></td><td>7</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">An Outsider</td><td></td><td>7</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Oysters</td><td></td><td>6</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Pan of Fudge</td><td></td><td>6</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Peck of Trouble</td><td></td><td>5</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Precious Pickle</td><td></td><td>7</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td align="left">25C</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The First National Boot</td><td>7</td><td>2</td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">His Father's Son</td><td>14</td><td></td><td align="left">1¾</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Turn In the Road</td><td>9</td><td></td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Half Back's Interference</td><td>10</td><td></td><td align="right">¾</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Revolving Wedge</td><td>5</td><td>3</td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Mose</td><td>11</td><td>10</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td></tr> -</table></div> -<p class="center">BAKER, Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>Plays and Novelties That Have Been "Winners"</h2> - - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Plays and Novelties That Have Been Winners"> -<tr><td></td><td><i>Males</i></td><td><i>Females</i></td><td colspan="2"><i>Time</i></td><td><i>Price</i></td><td><i>Royalty</i></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Camp Fidelity Girls</td><td></td><td>11</td><td align="left">2½</td><td>hrs.</td><td>35c</td><td>None</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Anita's Trial</td><td></td><td>11</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Farmerette</td><td></td><td>7</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Behind the Scenes</td><td></td><td>12</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Camp Fire Girls</td><td></td><td>15</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Case for Sherlock Holmes</td><td></td><td>10</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The House In Laurel Lane</td><td></td><td>6</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Her First Assignment</td><td></td><td>10</td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">I Grant You Three Wishes</td><td></td><td>14</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Joint Owners in Spain</td><td></td><td>4</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>$5.00</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Marrying Money</td><td></td><td>4</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>None</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Original Two Bits</td><td></td><td>7</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Over-Alls Club</td><td></td><td>10</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Leave it to Polly</td><td></td><td>11</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Rev. Peter Brice, Bachelor</td><td></td><td>7</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Miss Fearless & Co.</td><td></td><td>10</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Modern Cinderella</td><td></td><td>16</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Theodore, Jr.</td><td></td><td>7</td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Rebecca's Triumph</td><td></td><td>16</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Aboard a Slow Train In Mizzoury</td><td>8</td><td>14</td><td align="left">2½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Twelve Old Maids</td><td></td><td>15</td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">An Awkward Squad</td><td>8</td><td></td><td align="right">¼</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Blow-Up of Algernon Blow</td><td>8</td><td></td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Boy Scouts</td><td>20</td><td></td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Close Shave</td><td>6</td><td></td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The First National Boot</td><td>7</td><td>2</td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Half-Back's Interference</td><td>10</td><td></td><td align="right">¾</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">His Father's Son</td><td>14</td><td></td><td align="left">1¾</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Man With the Nose</td><td>8</td><td></td><td align="right">¾</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">On the Quiet</td><td>12</td><td></td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The People's Money</td><td>11</td><td></td><td align="left">1¾</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Regular Rah! Rah! Boy</td><td>14</td><td></td><td align="left">1¾</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Regular Scream</td><td>11</td><td></td><td align="left">1¾</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Schmerecase in School</td><td>9</td><td></td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Scoutmaster</td><td>10</td><td></td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Tramps' Convention</td><td>17</td><td></td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Turn in the Road</td><td>9</td><td></td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Wanted—a Pitcher</td><td>11</td><td></td><td align="right">½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">What They Did for Jenkins</td><td>14</td><td></td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Aunt Jerusha's Quilting Party</td><td>4</td><td>12</td><td align="left">1¼</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The District School at Blueberry Corners</td><td>12</td><td>17</td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Emigrants' Party</td><td>24</td><td>10</td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Miss Prim's Kindergarten</td><td>10</td><td>11</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">A Pageant of History</td><td colspan="2">Any number</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Revel of the Year</td><td>"</td><td>"</td><td align="right">¾</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Scenes in the Union Depot</td><td>"</td><td>"</td><td align="left">1</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Taking the Census in Bingville</td><td>14</td><td>8</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>25c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The Village Post-Office</td><td>22</td><td>20</td><td align="left">2</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">O'Keefe's Circuit</td><td>12</td><td>8</td><td align="left">1½</td><td>"</td><td>35c</td><td>"</td></tr> -</table></div> -<p class="center">BAKER, Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="transnote"> -<h2>Transcriber's Notes</h2> - - -<p>Obvious printer's errors have been repaired, other inconsistent -spellings have been kept including inconsistent use of hyphen (e.g. -"Air-Spy" and "Air Spy").</p> -</div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Santa Claus Gets His Wish, by -Blanche Proctor Fisher - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SANTA CLAUS GETS HIS WISH *** - -***** This file should be named 51180-h.htm or 51180-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/1/8/51180/ - -Produced by Judith Wirawan, David Edwards and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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BAKER COMPANY - 1921 - - - - -Santa Claus Gets His Wish - -A Play for Children - -CHARACTERS - - - FIRST IMP. - SECOND IMP. - SANTA CLAUS. - SAND-MAN. - WISH-BONE. - LOLLIPOP. - ICE-CREAM CONE. - LITTLE GIRL. - -[Illustration] - -COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY WALTER H. BAKER COMPANY - - - - -SUGGESTIONS FOR CHARACTERS - - -IMPS. In red sweaters and red masks covering the head, with a little -peak over each ear. - -SAND-MAN. In gray tunic and gray pointed cap. - -WISH-BONE. Is a slender boy holding his arms close to his body and -walking stiffly with legs spread far apart. - -LOLLIPOP. A very slender boy with his head wrapped loosely in red -tissue-paper. - -ICE-CREAM CONE. A little boy encased in a cornucopia of heavy -wrapping-paper with some soft white material showing at the top about -his face. - - - - -Santa Claus Gets His Wish - - - SCENE.--_The interior of_ SANTA CLAUS'S _home on Christmas - Eve. There is a door on each side of the stage, and a - fireplace at the back._ SANTA CLAUS'S _big easy-chair is - near the front of the stage at the left, and near the front - at the right is a table_. - - (_As the curtain rises the two_ IMPS _are seated on the - floor, each with a section of harness, the bells of which - they are industriously polishing_.) - -FIRST IMP. You must hurry. It's almost seven o'clock, and soon it will -be time to harness the reindeer. - -SECOND IMP. I am hurrying as fast as I can. I shall get through now -before you do, and my bells will be just as bright as yours. It seems to -me that the more I shine them the sweeter their tone is. - -FIRST IMP. I am polishing mine so bright that when Santa Claus drives -through the sky all the people will look up and think they see stars -twinkling overhead. - -SECOND IMP. And I make my bells so bright that when they chime the -children will hear them in their sleep and dream they are listening to -birds singing in the springtime. - -FIRST IMP (_scornfully_). What nonsense! How many children to-night do -you suppose are dreaming of birds and springtime? - -SECOND IMP. Why shouldn't they? - -FIRST IMP. Why should they,--when there are so many other things to -dream of at Christmas time? If you don't believe me, we'll leave it to -Santa Claus. Here he comes now. Hooray! - - (_As_ SANTA CLAUS _enters from_ L. _of stage the_ IMPS _run - to meet him, and holding an end of the harness in each hand - form a ring and dance around him in time to the jingling of - the bells_.) - -SANTA CLAUS. Hold on! Hold on there! When a fellow gets to be my age his -head isn't steady enough to stand any such merry-go-'round as this. Come -on now, let's see if you've done your work properly and polished the -bells as I told you. - - (_He sits down in his big armchair and the_ IMPS _climb upon - his lap_.) - -FIRST IMP. I said I would make my bells so bright that people would -think they were twinkling stars. - -SECOND IMP. And _I_ said---- - -FIRST IMP (_interrupting_). Never mind what _you_ said. There wasn't any -sense to that. Santa Claus, tell us, what do children dream about at -Christmas time? - -SANTA CLAUS. What do children dream about? Why, they dream about me, of -course. - -BOTH IMPS (_each shaking a finger at him_). O-ho! - -SANTA CLAUS. There! I suppose you think I'm a conceited old chap, but if -you don't believe me we'll ask the Sand-Man. (_The_ SAND-MAN _enters_, -L. _door, carrying a big bag over his shoulder, and a small bag in his -hand_.) Just starting off on your rounds, I see. Have you a heavy load -to-night? - -SAND-MAN. The sand-bag is heavy, but the dream-bag is light. There isn't -much to a dream, you know;--just a whiff of fairy powder wrapped up in a -bit of mist. But they do the trick all the same,--and how the children -love them. - -SANTA CLAUS. And what are these dreams which the children love? Are any -of them about me? - -SAND-MAN. Why, no, Santa. Of course they _used_ to be, but times have -changed, you see. Children nowadays have so many interests. - -SANTA CLAUS. But I thought perhaps just at Christmas time---- - -SAND-MAN. Yes, I know, I know. Yet, after all, dreams are really a -matter of habit. It's the things which the children enjoy all through -the year that stay in their minds after they fall asleep. - -SANTA CLAUS. Well, what are these things which the children enjoy all -the year and dream about every night? - -SAND-MAN. Ah! That would be telling. Mustn't give away the secrets of -the trade, you know. Well, I'm off. See you later. - - [_Exit_, R. _door_. - -SANTA CLAUS (_to the_ IMPS). Run out with him, boys, and help him down -the steps with his bags. (_Exeunt_ IMPS.) H'm! I didn't find out what I -wanted to, did I? I wish I could, though (_Yawning._), I wish I could; -but what's the old saying: "If wishes were horses, beggars might ride"? -Holloa! Who's this coming? (_The_ WISH-BONE _enters_, R. _door_.) How -strangely he walks,--must be kind o' stiff in his joints, or else he -hasn't any joints at all. Good-evening, friend, who might you be? - -WISH-BONE (_in a melancholy tone_). My name is Wish-Bone. I am all -that's left of the Thanksgiving turkey. - -SANTA CLAUS (_sympathetically_). I say, now, that's rather a lonely fate -for you; but cheer up, it might be worse. - -WISH-BONE (_in the same melancholy tone_). It will be worse. I expect to -be laid up with a broken leg most any day now. - -SANTA CLAUS. Broken leg? Why, bless my stars, man, what makes you expect -anything like that to happen? - -WISH-BONE. It always happens to us wish-bones; runs in the family. -Sometimes it's both legs that are broken, and the head flies off; and -that's the greatest pity of all, for then there isn't any one gets their -wish. - -SANTA CLAUS. Is your business something like mine, then; giving people -whatever they wish? - -WISH-BONE. N-no,-not exactly _giving_ it,--just promising it. But it all -amounts to the same thing. Once make people believe they'll get what -they wish for, and somehow it always comes in the end. - -SANTA CLAUS. Then perhaps you can help me out. My great wish just at -present is to know what the children are dreaming about to-night. - -WISH-BONE. Sorry to refuse you, but I'm not ready for business yet. -Don't feel quite equal to it. Wait until I get a little more snap in me, -and then I'll call around again. Good-night. - - [_Exit_ WISH-BONE, R. _door_. - -SANTA CLAUS. He's about the gloomiest creature I ever saw; and yet he -struck sort of a hopeful note when he said people would get what they -wished for if they only believed it. I wonder how that would work out in -my case. (_The_ SAND-MAN _enters_, R. _door_.) Ah! here comes the -Sand-Man back again. Well, how did things go with you to-night? Is your -sand-bag empty? - -SAND-MAN. Almost. It takes a powerful lot of sand to make the children -sleepy the night before Christmas. - -SANTA CLAUS. And are the dreams all gone too? - -SAND-MAN. Not quite. There was one little girl who refused to go to bed -at all, because she is so anxious to see Santa Claus when he comes. I -had two nice dreams picked out for her but I couldn't use them. Well, my -evening's work is over. (_Dropping his bags on the table._) I suppose -you'll be starting soon now. - -SANTA CLAUS. Pretty soon. But what you told me about that little girl -has put me on my guard. It would never do to let her see me while I am -filling her stocking. So I think I'll sit down by the fire and wait for -a few minutes. She won't be able to keep awake very long. If you see my -Imps around anywhere, send them along in here. Lazy little scamps! It's -time they were helping me to pack up the toys. (_As the_ SAND-MAN _goes -out_, L. _door_, SANTA CLAUS _draws his chair up to the fireplace, -where he sits musing with his eyes half-closed; yawning_.) -I--wish--I--could--know--what the children are dreaming about to-night. - - (_The two_ IMPS _enter_, L. _door, and tiptoe forward - cautiously_.) - -FIRST IMP (_whispers_). Is Santa Claus asleep? - -SECOND IMP. No, he's only thinking. But we could make him go to sleep if -we wanted to. Here's the Sand-Man's bag, and it isn't quite empty. -Wouldn't it be fun to drop some sand in Santa's eyes! - -FIRST IMP. Hush! He'll hear you. - - (_They creep up behind_ SANTA CLAUS _and toss the sand in - his face. He yawns again._) - -SECOND IMP. I think he's almost asleep now. Here are two dreams in the -dream-bag. Let's open them. - -FIRST IMP. Look out there, clumsy, you're spilling them! - -SECOND IMP. They were so light I couldn't help it. The fairy powder is -flying all around the room. It's filling the air so that I can't see. -Are you afraid? - -FIRST IMP. Of course not. There's nothing to be afraid of. Listen! Some -one is coming. - - (_As the light grows dim, soft, slow music is heard, and - the_ LOLLIPOP _appears at the_ R. _of the stage and moves - slowly across to the_ L., _in time to the music._) - -SECOND IMP (_whispering_). That looks like one of those red-headed -lollipops that Santa Claus made to put in the children's stockings. Do -you s'pose that one has escaped from the box? - -FIRST IMP. I don't think it's a real lollipop. Maybe it's only a dream. -See! It's vanishing away. - - (_The_ LOLLIPOP _disappears._ SANTA CLAUS _stirs in his - sleep, while the music, slightly louder, changes to a - livelier tune. The_ ICE-CREAM CONE _enters through the_ R. - _door and crosses the stage dancing a jig._) - -SECOND IMP. Oh, how funny! What is it? - -FIRST IMP. That is an ice-cream cone. All children love to eat them. - -SECOND IMP. Why, I could make one of those. If I took a tin trumpet from -Santa Claus's toy-shop and piled it full of snow 'twould be just the -same thing, wouldn't it? - -FIRST IMP. No--for even if you were to eat the snow all up, the tin -trumpet would still be left in your hand. But there's never anything -left of an ice-cream cone. Didn't you notice how quickly this one went, -almost as soon as it came? - -SECOND IMP. But that is because it was only a dream. - -FIRST IMP. That hasn't anything to do with it. A real ice-cream cone -wouldn't have lasted much longer. Sh! Who's coming now? (_As the_ -ICE-CREAM CONE _disappears the music stops, and the light grows bright -again. The_ LITTLE GIRL _enters at the_ R. _She is wrapped in a muffler -and carries a lighted lantern. Coming toward the front of the stage she -stops in terror on seeing the_ IMPS.) Don't be frightened, little girl. -We're only Santa Claus's imps. We won't hurt you. - -LITTLE GIRL. Then this really is where Santa Claus lives, and I didn't -make a mistake in the place? Please tell me, is Santa Claus at home? Oh, -there he is asleep by the fire. (_She puts her lantern on the floor and -goes up to_ SANTA CLAUS.) Santa Claus! Dear Santa Claus! Please wake up. -It's getting very late. - -SANTA CLAUS (_rubbing his eyes_). Why, bless my soul! I must have been -napping. And who are you, my dear? - -LITTLE GIRL. I'm the little girl who wouldn't go to bed to-night, for I -wanted to sit up to see Santa Claus. But I waited and waited, and you -didn't come. Oh, Santa Claus, don't say that you're not coming at all. -The children would be _so_ disappointed. - -SANTA CLAUS. The children are happy. They are having sweet dreams. Ah! I -know now what they're dreaming about. Lollipops and ice-cream cones. -They're not thinking much about poor old Santa Claus. - -LITTLE GIRL. Oh, but Santa Claus, we do think about you very often. We -love you much more than we do the lollipops and the ice-cream cones, for -they just melt away and don't last at all. - -SANTA CLAUS. And what makes you think that I would last any longer? - -LITTLE GIRL. Well, you know, Santa, you've already lasted a great many -years. - -SANTA CLAUS. Kind of a slam on my age, that is. But it's true, every -word of it. I have lasted a great many years, and the best part of it -is, I'm good for as many years more. So if the children are expecting -me, we'd better hurry and be off. (_To the_ IMPS.) Bring along your -harness there, boys; it's time to hitch up the reindeer. Wrap your -muffler around you tight, little girl. We're going to have a cold ride. -Here, isn't this your lantern? - -LITTLE GIRL. I shan't need the light of the lantern now, for the bells -on your harness are so bright they shine like stars. - -FIRST IMP. That's exactly what I said when I was cleaning them. - -SECOND IMP. And I said that their tones were so clear that the children -would believe they were the birds singing in the springtime. I was right -too, wasn't I? - -LITTLE GIRL. No, you foolish Imp. When the children hear Santa Claus's -sleigh-bells ringing they will smile in their sleep and think that they -are listening to the music of the Christmas carols. - - (_As the curtain falls the_ IMPS _jingle the bells, while - behind the scenes voices sing "Carol, brothers, carol," or - some other appropriate Christmas song._) - - -CURTAIN - - - - -THE CONJURER - -A Dramatic Mystery in Three Acts - -_By Mansfield Scott_ - -_Author of "The Submarine Shell," "The Air-Spy," etc._ - - -Eight male, four female characters. Costumes, modern; scenery, two easy -interiors. Plays a full evening. Royalty for amateur performance, $10.00 -for the first and $5.00 each for subsequent performances by the same -company. Free for school performance. George Clifford, incapacitated for -service at the front, employs his great talents as a conjurer to raise -money for the soldiers. He is utilized by Inspector Steele, of the U. S. -Secret Service, in a plan to discover certain foreign spies. The plan -goes wrong and involves seven persons in suspicion of a serious crime. -Clifford's clever unravelling of this tangled skein constitutes the -thrilling plot of this play, the interest of which is curiously like -that of the popular "Thirteenth Chair." This is not a "war-play" save in -a very remote and indirect way, but a clever detective story of -absorbing interest. Strongly recommended. - -_Price, 35 cents_ - - -CHARACTERS - - INSPECTOR MALCOME STEELE. - GEORGE CLIFFORD. - CAPTAIN FRANK DRUMMOND GLEASON. - LIEUTENANT HAMILTON WARWICK. - COLONEL WILLARD ANDERSON. - DRISCOLL WELLS. - DOCTOR GORDON PEAK. - DETECTIVE WHITE. - MARION ANDERSON. - EDITH ANDERSON. - ELLEN GLEASON. - DOROTHY ELMSTROM. - - -SYNOPSIS - -ACT I.--The home of Colonel Anderson (Friday evening). - -ACT II.--The office of Inspector Steele (Saturday afternoon). - -ACT III.--The same as Act II (Saturday evening). - - - - -THE OTHER VOICE - -A Play in One Act - -_By S._ vK. _Fairbanks_ - - -Three voices, preferably male, are employed in this little novelty which -is intended to be presented upon a dark stage upon which nothing is -actually visible save starlight. It was originally produced at Workshop -47, Cambridge, where its effective distillation of the essential oil of -tragedy was curiously successful. An admirable item for any programme -seeking variety of material and effect. Naturally no costumes nor -scenery are required, save a drop carrying stars and possibly a city -sky-line. Plays ten minutes only; royalty, $5.00. - -_Price, 25 cents_ - - - - -A COUPLE OF MILLION - -An American Comedy in Four Acts - -_By Walter Ben Hare_ - -Author of "Professor Pepp," "Much Ado About Betty," "The Hoodoo," "The -Dutch Detective," etc. - - -Six males, five females. Costumes, modern; scenery, two interiors and an -exterior. Plays a full evening. Royalty, ten dollars ($10.00) for each -performance. A more ambitious play by this popular author in the same -successful vein as his previous offerings. Bemis Bennington is left two -million dollars by his uncle on condition that he shall live for one -year in a town of less than five thousand inhabitants and during that -period marry and earn without other assistance than his own industry and -ability the sum of five thousand dollars. Failing to accomplish this the -money goes to one Professor Noah Jabb. This is done despite the -energetic opposition of Jabb, who puts up a very interesting fight. A -capital play that can be strongly recommended. Plenty of good comedy and -a great variety of good parts, full of opportunity. - -_Price, 35 cents_ - - -CHARACTERS - - BEMIS BENNINGTON. - HON. JEREMY WISE. - JAMES PATRICK BURNS, "_Stubby_." - PROFESSOR NOAH JABB. - BEVERLY LOMAN. - SQUIRE PIPER. - FAY FAIRBANKS. - MRS. CLARICE COURTENAY. - GENEVIEVE MCGULLY. - SAMMIE BELL PORTER. - PINK. - _Several Hill-Billies._ - - -SYNOPSIS - -ACT I.--The law office of Hon. Jeremy Wise, New York City. A morning in -July. - -ACT II.--The exterior of the court-house, Opaloopa, Alabama. An -afternoon in October. - -ACT III.--Same as Act II. The next afternoon. - -ACT IV.--Mrs. Courtenay's sitting-room, Opaloopa, Alabama. A night in -April. - - - - -ISOSCELES - -A Play in One Act - -_By Walter Ben Hare_ - - -Two male, one female characters. Costumes, modern; scene, an interior. -Plays twenty minutes. Royalty $2.50 for each performance. An admirable -little travesty of the conventional emotional recipe calling for -husband, wife and lover. Played in the proper spirit of burlesque it is -howlingly funny. Strongly recommended for the semi-professional uses of -schools of acting. A capital bit for a benefit or exhibition programme, -offering a decided novelty. - -_Price, 25 cents_ - - - - -NO TRESPASSING - -A Play in Three Acts - -_By Evelyn Gray Whiting_ - - -Six males, five females. Costumes, modern; scenery, a single easy -interior. Plays two hours. Free of royalty. Lisle Irving, a lively "city -girl," goes down into the country on a vacation and to get rid of a -husband of her father's choice whom she has never seen, and runs into -the very man living there under another name. He meets her by accident -and takes her to be one of a pair of twins who have been living at the -farmhouse. She discovers his mistake and in the character of both twins -in alternation gives him the time of his life, incidentally falling in -love with him. An unusual abundance of good comedy characters, including -one--Bill Meader--of great originality and humor, sure to make a big -hit. Strongly recommended. - -_Price, 35 cents_ - - -CHARACTERS - - BILL MEADER, "_on the town_." - JIM MEADER, _son of Bill, a boy of sixteen to eighteen_. - MR. PALMER, _a New England farmer_. - CLEVELAND TOWER, _a young city fellow, guest of Raynor_. - HERBERT EDMAND RAYNOR, _a young Englishman_. - MR. IRVING, _father of Lisle_. - LISLE IRVING, _a girl of seventeen_. - PEGGY PALMER, _a girl of eighteen or twenty_. - MRS. PALMER, _Peggy's mother_. - BARBARA PALMER, _a girl of ten or twelve years_. - ALMEDA MEADER, _a girl about Barbara's age_. - - - - -THE GIRL UP-STAIRS - -A Comedy in Two Acts - -_By Gladys Ruth Bridgham_ - - -Seven females. Costumes, modern; scenery, an interior. Plays an hour. -Daisy Jordan, crazy to get "on the stage," comes to New York and starves -there in a lodging house waiting for her chance. She schemes to get an -interview with Cicely Denver, a popular actress, to act before her, but -the result is not at all what she intended. A capital play with strong -and ingenious opportunities for good acting. Recommended. - -_Price, 25 cents_ - - - - -TICKETS, PLEASE! - -A Comedy in One Act - -_By Irving Dale_ - - -Four females. Costumes, modern and fashionable; scenery, an interior, -not important. Plays twenty minutes. Mignon asks Charlotte to get the -theatre tickets, Charlotte asks Maude to get them, Maude hands over -three to Linda, who leaves two at Mignon's house after she has left -home. But they get to the theatre somehow. Bright, funny and -characteristic. Strongly recommended. - -_Price, 25 cents_ - - - - -HITTY'S SERVICE FLAG - -A Comedy in Two Acts - -_By Gladys Ruth Bridgham_ - - -Eleven female characters. Costumes, modern; scenery, an interior. Plays -an hour and a quarter. Hitty, a patriotic spinster, quite alone in the -world, nevertheless hangs up a service flag in her window without any -right to do so, and opens a Tea Room for the benefit of the Red Cross. -She gives shelter to Stella Hassy under circumstances that close other -doors against her, and offers refuge to Marjorie Winslow and her little -daughter, whose father in France finally gives her the right to the -flag. A strong dramatic presentation of a lovable character and an ideal -patriotism. Strongly recommended, especially for women's clubs. - -_Price, 25 cents_ - - -CHARACTERS - - MEHITABLE JUDSON, _aged 70_. - LUELLA PERKINS, _aged 40_. - STASIA BROWN, _aged 40_. - MILDRED EMERSON, _aged 16_. - MARJORIE WINSLOW, _aged 25_. - BARBARA WINSLOW, _her daughter, aged 6_. - STELLA HASSY, _aged 25, but claims to be younger_. - MRS. IRVING WINSLOW, _aged 45_. - MARION WINSLOW, _her daughter, aged 20_. - MRS. ESTERBROOK, _aged 45_. - MRS. COBB, _anywhere from 40 to 60_. - - - - -THE KNITTING CLUB MEETS - -A Comedy in One Act - -_By Helen Sherman Griffith_ - - -Nine female characters. Costumes, modern; scenery, an interior. Plays -half an hour. Eleanor will not forego luxuries nor in other ways "do her -bit," putting herself before her country; but when her old enemy, Jane -Rivers, comes to the Knitting Club straight from France to tell the -story of her experiences, she is moved to forget her quarrel and leads -them all in her sacrifices to the cause. An admirably stimulating piece, -ending with a "melting pot" to which the audience may also be asked to -contribute. Urged as a decided novelty in patriotic plays. - -_Price, 25 cents_ - - - - -GETTING THE RANGE - -A Comedy in One Act - -_By Helen Sherman Griffith_ - - -Eight female characters. Costumes, modern; scenery, an exterior. Well -suited for out of door performances. Plays an hour and a quarter. -Information of value to the enemy somehow leaks out from a frontier town -and the leak cannot be found or stopped. But Captain Brooke, of the -Secret Service, finally locates the offender amid a maze of false clues, -in the person of a washerwoman who hangs out her clothes day after day -in ways and places to give the desired information. 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