“’Fi’s a leetla orphan, wif no share in the Kissmiss joy,I’d jus’ dopt ole Santa Clausa, and be hees leetla boy.”
“’Fi’s a leetla orphan, wif no share in the Kissmiss joy,I’d jus’ dopt ole Santa Clausa, and be hees leetla boy.”
“’Fi’s a leetla orphan, wif no share in the Kissmiss joy,
I’d jus’ dopt ole Santa Clausa, and be hees leetla boy.”
Mr. Opperman—A goot chooze, dot vould be, aretty.
Elsie—I wouldn’t. I’d ’dopt my Jimmy, and his little sister be.
Jimmy—Just like you did, Ilsie darlint.
Katie—Nixt is a rale plantation song by the Washington famerly, the hull four av thim.
Chloe—Yo ottah call it a quahtette, honey. Dat’s de stylish name. (Pompey plays his banjo, and they all sing. Any of the old Southern Darkey songs will do—not the ragtime coon song of to-day.)
Katie—Nixt is a ricitation by our esteemed frind and fellow bachelor, Mr. Fritz Opperman.
Mr. Opperman—Bud I don’t vos knew any Gristmas biece, aretty. I voz von Jew, you see, Miss Kadie.
Katie—But yez kin say some dandy ones. Niver moind the Christmas part, Mr. Opperman. Jist spale off a funny one. (Mr. Opperman recites any comic poem in Dutch dialect.)
Mr. Opperman—Now id vos other poddy’s durn, aretty yet.
Katie—Yis, it’s Mickey’s. Masther Saint Michael McCarthy will now spake a ricitation. (Mickey recites “Santa’s Mistake.”)
Bridget—(at close) Sure, an’ I haven’t thin, Mickey, bye. Oi’d be proud to have a dozin as foine ones as me own three are, and if the ould Saint laves me anither Oi’ll kape me eyes on yez, Oi will thot.
Mickey—(looking over Katie’s shoulder) Nixt Luigi will play us a chune on his fiddle.
Katie—(pushing him) Be off wid yez! Is that a pretty way to say it, now? Nixt, is a violin doit, by the great Italian musishin—Misther Antonio Ferrari, and his son Masther Luigi ditto.
Luigi—Ditto not my name-a. (Antonio and Luigi play, Luigi playing second part, preferably something distinctly Italian. If desired, Carlotta and Bianca may sing, in Italian.)
Pat—I doos loike a good fiddle chune.
Katie—Nixt is a ricitation by Miss Thelma Omstrom. (Thelma recites “The Birdie’s Tree.”)
Mr. Opperman—Dot von goot ting to do vos, aretty.
Hilda—We always do so in Sweden. The birrds their Chrissmas haff as well as the little ones.
Katie—Nixt is a ricitation by Miss Constantia Erin McCarthy. (Connie recites “Baby’s Shopping.”)
Pat—The littel spalpeen. If thot wasn’t a good joke now!
Katie—Nixt is an ould Latin hymn, as sung in the Catholic churches, by Mrs. Bridget Maloney McCarthy, who was once a soloist in the church in Kerry. (Bridget sings “Adeste Fidelis,” or some other old Christmas hymn. If preferred, she may sing in English, but the old Latin hymns are very beautiful.)
Pat—Sure, and Oi heard her a singing thot same hymn one Christmas in ould Oirland. Oi’d been to say me mither’s ant, in Kerry, and was a going home the nixt day. But I didn’t. “Begorry, thot’s the vice, fer me,” says I, and I stayed and coorted the singer.
Katie—Nixt is a ricitation by Miss Bianca Ferrari. (Bianca recites “What They Found.”)
Lars—Take a warning, you Luigi boy, and don’t bane tease your sister any more.
Katie—Nixt is a ricitation by Miss Cleopatry Harriet Beecher Stowe Washington.
Cleopatra—’Twarn’t no resh’tashing. ’Twar a song—a lullerby.
Katie—Shure and it was thot same. Ixcuse me, Cleo.
Cleopatra—Whah’s my pick-a-ninny, Mammy? (Mammy takes from a capacious pocket a rag doll rolled up from an old black stocking with features sewed on, and a cap and long dress of white.)
Chloe—Heah she am, honey chile. Sing her to sleep now. (Cleopatra may sing any darkey lullaby.)
Hilda—A sweet little song, and nicely singed.
Katie—Nixt is a ricitation by Carl Omstrom. (Carl recites “A Ten Cent Christmas.”)
Lars—(at close of recitation) And I did buy effery one of tem for some one here. I bane had a real dime.
Katie—And now, as Mr. Lars Omstrom and Mrs. Hilda Omstrom have begged to be ixcused, we will ind this programme by a good rousing Christmas carol, sung by iverbuddy.
Jimmy—No, yez don’t. Miss Katherine McCarthy hasn’t done her share yit.
Katie—Yis I did, Jimmy. I read the programme.
Micky—No go. Ye’ve got ter sing, Katie.
Katie—But I wasn’t ixpicting to do that same, and—
Pat—Niver moind the appollygies. Give ’em “Rory O-More,” Katy love. (Katy sings “Rory O’More,” or any preferred Irish song.)
Katie—And now fer the grand final choris! Iverrybuddy sing. (All sing any chosen Christmas Carol, old or new. At the end, Mr. Strauss, Elsie’s father, walks in.)
Mr. Strauss—A vine ghorus, dot! Dey dold me I should mine leetle Elsie find here.
Elsie—(springing into his arms) Mine fader! Oh, mine fader! How did you yourselluf find, aretty?
Mr. Strauss—Mine own leedle von! Und your mutter is died, dey zay.
Elsie—Ya, and you did lost yourselluf, and—
Mr. Strauss—I vos not loss, I vos seeck, so long dime mine head mitout, and could not the American talk remember. Mine uncle has died, Elsie, und I am a rich man, aretty.
Elsie—I was a rich girl, too, mine fader. See the grand Christmas tree we have on that corner. It is mine tree. Jimmy got it for me.
Mr. Strauss—I vill go and buy von big real tree aretty, mine Elsie, with candles and ornaments and gifts, and all these shall see.
Elsie—I’d rather have this tree, mine fader. I do this tree like.
Mr. Strauss—Den dis tree you shall have, mine Elsie, and New Years’ Day we will one big tree have, mine country blace out at, and all these shall come, who have mine Elsie bin goot to, aretty.
Jimmy—Are you going to take Elsie away, sir?
Elsie—I can’t from Jimmy away go. Mine Jimmy must with us go, mine fader. I vos Jimmy’s little sister.
Mr. Opperman—It vos dot Chimmy dot did find her crying the street in, and pring her here.
Mr. Strauss—And you cared for her? You did not let her to the Orphan asylum go? But you are poor people. How you do it?
Pat—Sure we did it betwane us, and nobody missed the bite and sup the wee colleen took. But she’s the loight av all our eyes, sir, and we shall miss her sadly. Indade we shall.
Mr. Strauss—She shall come back. She often shall come. And all you who so kind have been shall come her to see. Ve never our friends shall forget, who cared for mine Elsie.
Elsie—But Jimmy must go, mine fader. I will not without mine Jimmy go.
Mr. Strauss—But his mudder, Elsie, she will not him let go.
Elsie—Iwill let him go. He is mine Jimmy! And he has no mudder.
Mr. Strauss—No mudder? How dot vos? Who dot poy belong to aretty?
Bridget—He was my sister’s bye, and as good a bye as iver walked on two ligs.
Mr. Strauss—Let him come mine poy to be—mine Elsie’s brodder. He shall von edugation have, and in mine pusiness be, by and by. Vill you mine poy be, Chimmy?
Bridget—Sure and he will. It’s not mesilf will stand in his loight, and he desarves all the good things he’ll get. It’s sorry we’ll be to lose him and Ilsie too. Bedad she’s the babby av the whole tinemint—but—Whisht there, Connie! ye musn’t wape. There’s the three to be loighted, and all the prisints and the candy and apples. All roise, now, and say Wilcome, and we’ll be afther lighting thot three. (All rise, and shout heartily.) Welcome, welcome to Elsie’s father! Rah! Rah! Rah!
Elsie—I want the candles to light. Jimmy did say I might! (Her father holds her up and she lights one or two, to the accompaniment of the children’s “ohs!” and “ah’s”! as the curtain falls.)
CURTAIN.
FOOTNOTES:[A]Furnished by the publishers of this book. Sheet music, price, twenty-five cents.[B]This song is published by Paine Publishing Company. Sheet music, price, twenty-five cents.
[A]Furnished by the publishers of this book. Sheet music, price, twenty-five cents.
[A]Furnished by the publishers of this book. Sheet music, price, twenty-five cents.
[B]This song is published by Paine Publishing Company. Sheet music, price, twenty-five cents.
[B]This song is published by Paine Publishing Company. Sheet music, price, twenty-five cents.
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CHRISTMAS AT PUNKIN HOLLER.A new Christmas play by Elizabeth F. Guptill that abounds in clean, wholesome fun from beginning to end. It depicts the trials of the teacher of an old-fashioned “deestric school” in conducting the last rehearsal for the Christmas Entertainment. Some of the pupils are in “custom,” as big Jake puts it, and “Sandy Claus” is there. The children go through their parts with gusto and more or less success. May be given in any schoolroom by any number. Easy to produce. Costumes simple. Children and grown-ups will be delighted with CHRISTMAS AT PUNKIN HOLLER. Price, 15 cents.
A TOPSY TURVY CHRISTMAS.Another new Christmas play by Elizabeth F. Guptill. It is decidedly humorous from start to finish. The characters are strong and at every turn of the play there is a happy surprise for the audience. The children are tired of “minding,” and the everything being “just so,” so they start to find a place where they will find things different. They find it in Topsy Turvy Land, where they have strange experiences. When at last they have a Topsy Turvy Christmas, they are ready to go home and be satisfied with things just as they are. May be given in any schoolroom by any number of children not less than fifteen. In two short scenes. This clever play will prove a sure winner wherever produced. Price, 15 cents.
CHRISTMAS AT McCARTHY’S.Elizabeth P. Guptill. Here is a new Christmas play for the older children and as many young children as are available. It combines in a marked degree the gentlest pathos and the most sparkling humor. Several nationalities are represented in the tenement and there is opportunity for the introduction of specialties if desired. Circumstances cause Elsie, the tenement orphan, to believe Jimmy, the newsboy, will buy her a Christmas present, and it seems it is up to Jimmy to do it. Christmas is an unknown quantity at the tenement, but all agree that Elsie must not be disappointed, and plan to have one somehow. The entertainment is given by the “inhabitints thimsilves,” at McCarthy’s. In the midst of the fun, Elsie’s lost father walks in, and the finale is a general rejoicing. Price, 25c.
CHRISTMAS DIALOGUES.By Cecil J. Richmond. A book full of the choicest new and original dialogues for Christmas, parts for both boys and girls being well provided for. Some are for the little folks, in rhyme, some are for intermediate grades, and others for older children. Every dialogue in this book is decidedly to the point and easy to prepare. They will delight young and old alike. Contents: Is There a Santa Claus? 2 small children, Santa Claus and chorus; Herbert’s Discovery, 2 boys; The Christmas Dinner, 2 little girls, 1 larger girl and 2 boys; Playing Santa Claus, 1 small and 2 larger boys; A Double Christmas Gift, 2 small girls, 2 larger girls, and 3 boys. Price, 15 cents.
EVERGREEN AND HOLLY—SONG AND DRILL.By Elizabeth F. Guptill. A drill for any even number of boys and girls, or all girls. The girls carry garlands of evergreen while the boys carry wreaths of the same. After a spectacular drill and fancy march they all sing a beautiful Christmas song, which accompanies the drill. Following the song they wind a spiral to the center of the stage, unwind same and march off. Complete instructions are given. It is the best Christmas drill ever published; easy to produce and decidedly novel. Price, 15 cents.
PEARL’S CHRISTMAS.Original, pleasing and interesting Christmas dialogue with an excellent moral, for 3 boys and 4 girls. Price, 5 cents; seven copies, 25 cents.
SITTING UP FOR SANTA CLAUS.A humorous dialogue for 6 girls, 5 boys, and Santa Claus. If you expect to have a Christmas entertainment, you surely want this. Single copy, 10 cents; or 10 copies, 60 cents.
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FAMOUS FIVE CENT DIALOGUESDOCTOR AND PATIENT.By John M. Drake.2 male characters. Very funny.DOLL DIALOGUE.This is a very instructive dialogue for 4 little girls.GOING TO MEET AUNT HATTIE.A dialogueby Mrs. Hunt. For 1 male and 3 female characters.LOST DOG, THE.An excellent comic dialogue with following cast: Mr. Taylor, owner of the dog; Mrs. Taylor; Billy, their son; Chinaman, Dutchman, Irishman, and Mr. Smith.NO PEDDLERS WANTED.For 4 boys. A funny dialogue that satisfies.OUR TRAMPS.A humorous dialogue for two boys and three girls. Two of the larger pupils should be dressed to represent grandfather and grandmother. A small boy and two small girls for tramps, to be dressed in old clothes belonging to grown-up people.PEARL’S CHRISTMAS.Original, pleasing and interesting Christmas dialogue with an excellent moral, for 3 boys and 4 girls.PETERTOWN PROPOSAL, THE.A dialogue for two small children, a boy and a girl.PICNIC, A.A realistic and humorous dialogue for six boys and ten girls.REVIEWING FOR EXAMINATION.By Chas. McClintic.1 male, 2 female characters.SILENT INTRUDER, THE.By Eugene Harold.A comic dialogue for two male characters. You should see the clerk placed under the hypnotic spell.SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING, A.A comic dialogue for a deaf lady and a tramp. Three copies for ten cents.UNCLE PETER’S VISIT TO THE SCHOOL.A comic dialogue for 2 male and 3 female characters. 10 minutes.UNGROUNDED SUSPICIONS.For three boys. Shows how people are often unjustly accused. Three copies,ten cents.THE WAY TO WYNDHAM.A comic dialogue for 2 male characters. 10 minutes. An excellent dialogue.THE WEDDING NOTICE.A comic Irish dialogue that is rich and rare and racy.FAMOUS TEN CENT DIALOGUESARABELLA’S POOR RELATION.A very popular dialogue, with the following characters: Arabella, a very proud city girl; Mary Taylor, her poor cousin; Joshua Hopkins, a typical down-east farmer from Vermont, one of the poor (?) relations; Robert Clarenden in search of a wife. Four copies,thirty cents.AUNT SALLIE’S DOCTOR.A Christian Science dialogue for two male and two female characters. Some fun and some truth in the dialogue.AUNT VINEGAR’S MONEY.This is a dialogue for five female characters,by Mrs. A. Hunt. Some fun and truth in the dialogue.DEACON’S DILEMMA, THE.A comic dialogue, for one male, one female and a little girl. The deacon and the lady think that matrimony is the thing for them, but after many amusing differences, change their minds.DEAF UNCLE ZED.A comic dialogue in two scenes, for four male and three female characters. Uncle Zed has lots of cash, and can hear all right when he wants to.DOIG’S EXCELLENT DIALOGUES.By Agnes M. Doig.Contains four very pleasing short dialogues for little people, as follows: Keeping Store, Guessing, Playing School, and Christmas Eve. All good.POOR RELATION, THE.A comic dialogue in two parts, for five male characters. This dialogue shows that promises do not amount to much. It is what one does that counts.SCHOOL AFFAIRS IN RIVERHEAD DISTRICT.Characters: Teacher, children, and Board of Education. In four scenes.SCHOOL GIRL’S STRATEGY, A.A humorous dialogue for one male and eight female characters, and as many more school girls as convenient. Three interior scenes, one representing a school-room. One girl who has been writing essays for the other girls, on this occasion writes them all alike. Lot of fun. Eight copies forfifty cents.
FAMOUS FIVE CENT DIALOGUES
DOCTOR AND PATIENT.By John M. Drake.2 male characters. Very funny.
DOLL DIALOGUE.This is a very instructive dialogue for 4 little girls.
GOING TO MEET AUNT HATTIE.A dialogueby Mrs. Hunt. For 1 male and 3 female characters.
LOST DOG, THE.An excellent comic dialogue with following cast: Mr. Taylor, owner of the dog; Mrs. Taylor; Billy, their son; Chinaman, Dutchman, Irishman, and Mr. Smith.
NO PEDDLERS WANTED.For 4 boys. A funny dialogue that satisfies.
OUR TRAMPS.A humorous dialogue for two boys and three girls. Two of the larger pupils should be dressed to represent grandfather and grandmother. A small boy and two small girls for tramps, to be dressed in old clothes belonging to grown-up people.
PEARL’S CHRISTMAS.Original, pleasing and interesting Christmas dialogue with an excellent moral, for 3 boys and 4 girls.
PETERTOWN PROPOSAL, THE.A dialogue for two small children, a boy and a girl.
PICNIC, A.A realistic and humorous dialogue for six boys and ten girls.
REVIEWING FOR EXAMINATION.By Chas. McClintic.1 male, 2 female characters.
SILENT INTRUDER, THE.By Eugene Harold.A comic dialogue for two male characters. You should see the clerk placed under the hypnotic spell.
SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING, A.A comic dialogue for a deaf lady and a tramp. Three copies for ten cents.
UNCLE PETER’S VISIT TO THE SCHOOL.A comic dialogue for 2 male and 3 female characters. 10 minutes.
UNGROUNDED SUSPICIONS.For three boys. Shows how people are often unjustly accused. Three copies,ten cents.
THE WAY TO WYNDHAM.A comic dialogue for 2 male characters. 10 minutes. An excellent dialogue.
THE WEDDING NOTICE.A comic Irish dialogue that is rich and rare and racy.
FAMOUS TEN CENT DIALOGUES
ARABELLA’S POOR RELATION.A very popular dialogue, with the following characters: Arabella, a very proud city girl; Mary Taylor, her poor cousin; Joshua Hopkins, a typical down-east farmer from Vermont, one of the poor (?) relations; Robert Clarenden in search of a wife. Four copies,thirty cents.
AUNT SALLIE’S DOCTOR.A Christian Science dialogue for two male and two female characters. Some fun and some truth in the dialogue.
AUNT VINEGAR’S MONEY.This is a dialogue for five female characters,by Mrs. A. Hunt. Some fun and truth in the dialogue.
DEACON’S DILEMMA, THE.A comic dialogue, for one male, one female and a little girl. The deacon and the lady think that matrimony is the thing for them, but after many amusing differences, change their minds.
DEAF UNCLE ZED.A comic dialogue in two scenes, for four male and three female characters. Uncle Zed has lots of cash, and can hear all right when he wants to.
DOIG’S EXCELLENT DIALOGUES.By Agnes M. Doig.Contains four very pleasing short dialogues for little people, as follows: Keeping Store, Guessing, Playing School, and Christmas Eve. All good.
POOR RELATION, THE.A comic dialogue in two parts, for five male characters. This dialogue shows that promises do not amount to much. It is what one does that counts.
SCHOOL AFFAIRS IN RIVERHEAD DISTRICT.Characters: Teacher, children, and Board of Education. In four scenes.
SCHOOL GIRL’S STRATEGY, A.A humorous dialogue for one male and eight female characters, and as many more school girls as convenient. Three interior scenes, one representing a school-room. One girl who has been writing essays for the other girls, on this occasion writes them all alike. Lot of fun. Eight copies forfifty cents.
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COMIC ENTERTAINER, THE.An up-to-date collection of the choicest humor. Such a variety in prose and poetry as to suit almost any occasion. The book also contains four monologues, two for male and two for female characters; also four short dialogues. Price, thirty cents.
HUMOROUS MONOLOGUES.By Mayme R. Bitney. A fine collection of twenty-nine original monologues designed for the use of the amateur and the professional monologist. Practically suitable for ladies. The author has brought out with skill the humorous incidents that help make up the life of the country girl and woman, while the fashionable woman of the city, who is interested in parties, teas and golf, is just as truthfully depicted. Price, thirty cents.
THE EXCELLENT SCHOOL SPEAKER.The “Excellent”—is true to name. A book of over one hundred pages, especially compiled for us by C. S. Bradford, containing selections of poetry and prose, new and fresh. Full of good things. You can make no mistake in securing this speaker. Price, fifteen cents.
HOWE’S COMIC SCHOOL SPEAKER.Full of short, pithy, comic, and humorous recitations. This book should be in every school. Price, fifteen cents.
HOWE’S EXHIBITION SCHOOL SPEAKER.Contains about one hundred pages of selections of great range from the choicest literature of our country, suitable for schools, homes and exhibitions. It is the best thing out. Send for it. Price, fifteen cents.
THE JUVENILE SPEAKER.Every piece in this little book can be used and is worthy of its place in this useful work. It is undoubtedly the best book of the kind, for the money, published; and is highly recommended by teachers everywhere. Price, twenty cents.
LITTLE PIECES FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.Each set has twenty cards containing twenty-nine bright, pretty recitations for boys and girls, from five to ten years of age. Teachers like the pieces because of their convenient form. Being printed on cards, all wearisome copying is avoided. Price, fifteen cents.
MONOLOGUES FOR YOUNG FOLKS.By Mayme Riddle Bitney. Fifty-four original, clever, humorous monologues for young people from six to sixteen, or for monologists who impersonate children. A recitation may be a recounting of incidents, but a monologue has action; it becomes alive, and you are carried along with intense interest. A great variety of subjects. Also twenty-eight selections as follows: For Washington’s Birthday (4). For Labor Day (4). For Memorial Day, Flag Day, and other Patriotic Occasions (3). For Thanksgiving Day (8). For Christmas (9). Price, thirty cents.
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THE NORMAL SPEAKER.A book suited to the wants of all, from the smallest school-child to the oldest reader. Do you want the most eloquent passages ever delivered by our greatest orators? Do you want the most soul-stirring patriotism? Do you want the purest, tenderest and most ennobling pathos? Do you want the most droll, eccentric and ludicrous descriptions and characterizations? Do you want the richest, rarest and most side-splitting humor? Do you want to arouse a new interest in literature and elocution among your pupils? Do you want the selections recited by the most eminent elocutionists? Do you want the cream, the quintessence of all that is suitable for reading or declaiming in schools, exhibitions, literary societies, picnics, or in the family or private reading room? Buy the Normal Speaker and you will be sure to find in it something that will supply your wants. Price, thirty cents.
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Transcriber’s Notes:Obvious punctuation errors repaired.Page 19, “Chistmas” changed to “Christmas” (sing a beautiful Christmas)
Transcriber’s Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Page 19, “Chistmas” changed to “Christmas” (sing a beautiful Christmas)