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<p class="center spaced"><i>No Plays Exchanged</i><br />
<big>BAKER'S EDITION OF PLAYS</big></p>
<h1>Santa Claus Gets His Wish</h1>
<p class="center space-above">Price, 25 Cents</p>
<p class="center"><big>WALTER H. BAKER COMPANY</big><br />
BOSTON</p>
<hr class="chap" />
<h2>Plays for Colleges and High Schools</h2>
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<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>
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<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>
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<img src="images/titlepage.jpg" width="111" height="135" alt="logo" />
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<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>
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<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>
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