The Vampire Cat / A Play in one act from the Japanese legend of the Nabeshima cat

Price 25 Cents
No. 641
ART WORKERS LEAGUE
Author of A Country Romance, The Unknown Rival, Humble Pie, etc.
Price, 25 cents
Here is a practical hand-book, describing in detail all the accessories, properties, scenes and apparatus necessary for an amateur production. In addition to the descriptions in words, everything is clearly shown in the numerous pictures, more than one hundred being inserted in the book. No such useful book has ever been offered to the amateur players of any country.
Chapter I. Introductory Remarks.
Chapter II. Stage, How to Make, etc. In drawing-rooms or parlors, with sliding or hinged doors. In a single large room. The Curtain; how to attach it, and raise it, etc.
Chapter III. Arrangement of Scenery. How to hang it. Drapery, tormentors, wings, borders, drops.
Chapter IV. Box Scenes. Center door pieces, plain wings, door wings, return pieces, etc.
Chapter V. How to Light the Stage. Oil, gas and electric light. Footlights, Sidelights, Reflectors. How to darken the stage, etc.
Chapter VI. Stage Effects. Wind, Rain, Thunder, Breaking Glass, Falling Buildings, Snow, Water, Waves, Cascades, Passing Trains, Lightning, Chimes, Sound of Horses' Hoofs, Shots.