This is a double tableau, both platforms and curtains being used, and both pictures being shown at once.
On platform Z “Son John” stands just behind his children (group No. 2) and all look imploringly at Grandma and hold out their arms to her.
On platform X the bride and groom stand back at one side, his arm around her, both smiling at Grandma. A double gauze should hang before them inside the frame, so that they are but dimly seen.
Group No. 1 stand together at the right front of the space and both reach their arms to Grandma as they smile at her.
CURTAIN.
OLD AUNT DINAH’S CHRISTMAS.
A MONOLOGUE.
Go way fum hyar, chile! How you s’pose I gwine git ready fer Sandy Claws ter come if you chillun keeps a-hangin’ eroun’?
Doos Sandy Claws bring dem Chris’mus gif’s? Sho he do. Does I put gif’s inter dem stockin’s, too?
Laws! Yo’ jes’ talkin’ foolishness. How Sandy Claws gwine fill yer stockin’s ef dar ain’t no stockin’s dar I like ter know? An’ ain’t I de one dat mends ’em? Co’se I hangs up de stockin’s. Yer kaint ’spect Sandy Claws ter tote a passel ob stockin’s ’roun’ wid him. Don’t he be good ’nuff ter put tings in ’em I lak ter know?