Merry MonologuesBy MARY MONCURE PARKERThese selections are wholly original and sufficiently varied in character and sentiment to enable the reader to make up a well-rounded program in which high comedy mingles with farce and pathos in a manner suitable for all occasions. Nineteen monologues and nine short poems which are especially adapted to that particular form of entertainment called the pianologue, viz., reading to music.Some of the selections are new but most of them are the pick from the author’s wide repertoire, which she has used throughout this country and in England. They bear the stamp of enthusiastic public approval and are now first offered to the public.Contents:On the Street Car; The Renaissance of the Kiss; Husbands Is Husbands; Oh, Friend of Mine; George’s First Sweetheart; Bobby and the New Baby; Lucile Gets Ready for a Dance; Mandy’s Man and Safety First; Maggie McCarthy Goes on a Diet; Mrs. Climber Doesn’t Like Notoriety; Lucindy Jones Expects a Legacy; Grown Folks Is so Awful Queer; At the Movies; The Gingie Boy; Ode to a Manikin; Isaacstein’s Busy Day; Like Pilgrims to the Appointed Place; Mrs. Bargain Counter Meets a Friend; Mother Mine; Maggie McCarthy Has Her Fortune Told; In Vaudeville; Uncle Jim and the Liniment; The Funny Story; In the Milliner Shop; Mrs. Trubble’s Troubles; George’s Cousin Willie; When Lucindy Goes to Town; A Question.Beautiful cloth binding, lettering anddesign in two colors, attractive type.Price, $1.25T. S. Denison & Company, Publishers623 S. Wabash Ave.CHICAGO
Merry Monologues
By MARY MONCURE PARKER
These selections are wholly original and sufficiently varied in character and sentiment to enable the reader to make up a well-rounded program in which high comedy mingles with farce and pathos in a manner suitable for all occasions. Nineteen monologues and nine short poems which are especially adapted to that particular form of entertainment called the pianologue, viz., reading to music.
Some of the selections are new but most of them are the pick from the author’s wide repertoire, which she has used throughout this country and in England. They bear the stamp of enthusiastic public approval and are now first offered to the public.
Contents:On the Street Car; The Renaissance of the Kiss; Husbands Is Husbands; Oh, Friend of Mine; George’s First Sweetheart; Bobby and the New Baby; Lucile Gets Ready for a Dance; Mandy’s Man and Safety First; Maggie McCarthy Goes on a Diet; Mrs. Climber Doesn’t Like Notoriety; Lucindy Jones Expects a Legacy; Grown Folks Is so Awful Queer; At the Movies; The Gingie Boy; Ode to a Manikin; Isaacstein’s Busy Day; Like Pilgrims to the Appointed Place; Mrs. Bargain Counter Meets a Friend; Mother Mine; Maggie McCarthy Has Her Fortune Told; In Vaudeville; Uncle Jim and the Liniment; The Funny Story; In the Milliner Shop; Mrs. Trubble’s Troubles; George’s Cousin Willie; When Lucindy Goes to Town; A Question.
Beautiful cloth binding, lettering anddesign in two colors, attractive type.Price, $1.25
T. S. Denison & Company, Publishers
623 S. Wabash Ave.CHICAGO
FOOTNOTES:[1]From “Poems,” by Alan Seeger. Copyright, 1916, by Charles Scribner’s Sons, Publishers, New York. Permission to reproduce in this book.[2]“The Soldier,” and “Not With Vain Tears” are from “The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke,” published and copyright, 1915, by John Lane Company, New York. Special permission to reproduce in this book.
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[1]From “Poems,” by Alan Seeger. Copyright, 1916, by Charles Scribner’s Sons, Publishers, New York. Permission to reproduce in this book.
[1]From “Poems,” by Alan Seeger. Copyright, 1916, by Charles Scribner’s Sons, Publishers, New York. Permission to reproduce in this book.
[2]“The Soldier,” and “Not With Vain Tears” are from “The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke,” published and copyright, 1915, by John Lane Company, New York. Special permission to reproduce in this book.
[2]“The Soldier,” and “Not With Vain Tears” are from “The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke,” published and copyright, 1915, by John Lane Company, New York. Special permission to reproduce in this book.