NOTES ON COSTUME AND SCENERY
Ordinary costumes. Santa Claus (see note on costume, [p. 313]) should be taken by a man, but the other adult parts are for boys and girls from fourteen to eighteen. Two or three older boys enact the homeward-bound pedestrians who merely cross the stage in Act I, and Father Browne and John, in coats and hats, may be among these.
The groups of children who come in at the end range from the very smallest up to ten years.
If scenery is available, place grocery store in first scene, at the back, and keep the children well in the center. In changing the scene, time can be gained by setting the first scene in front of the interior, as very little space is needed for the first act.
If scenery is not to be used, set grocery store less conspicuously [Right], using screens and placing boxes and barrels before them.
[THE CHRISTMAS BROWNIE]
IN ONE ACT