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SECOND IMP . 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.
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? 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. Santa Claus! Dear Santa Claus! Please wake up. It's getting very late.
SANTA CLAUS . Why, bless my soul! I must have been napping. And who are you, my dear?
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. 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.
CURTAIN
THE CONJURER
A Dramatic Mystery in Three Acts
Eight male, four female characters. Costumes, modern; scenery, two easy interiors. Plays a full evening. Royalty for amateur performance, .00 for the first and .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.
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
THE OTHER VOICE
A Play in One Act
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, .00.
A COUPLE OF MILLION
An American Comedy in Four Acts
Six males, five females. Costumes, modern; scenery, two interiors and an exterior. Plays a full evening. Royalty, ten dollars 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.
CHARACTERS
SYNOPSIS
ISOSCELES
A Play in One Act
Two male, one female characters. Costumes, modern; scene, an interior. Plays twenty minutes. Royalty .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.
NO TRESPASSING
A Play in Three Acts
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.
CHARACTERS
THE GIRL UP-STAIRS
A Comedy in Two Acts
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.
TICKETS, PLEASE!
A Comedy in One Act
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.
HITTY'S SERVICE FLAG
A Comedy in Two Acts
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.
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