Paper covers, illuminated 30 cts.
Board covers, illuminated 50 cts.
Burton’s Amateur Actor. A Complete Guide to Private Theatricals; giving plain directions for arranging, decorating and lighting the Stage and its appurtenances, with rules and suggestions for mounting, rehearsing and performing all kinds of Plays, Parlor Pantomimes and Shadow Pantomimes. Illustrated with numerous engravings, and including a selection of original Plays, with Prologues, Epilogues, etc. By C. E. Burton.
CONTENTS.
- How to form an Amateur Company.
- Duties of the Manager and Prompter.
- Theatrical Music.
- Rules for an Amateur Company.
- How to Arrange a Stage.
- How to Make a Curtain.
- How to Light the Stage.
- Colored and Calcium Light Effects.
- How to Make and Paint the Scenes.
- How to Imitate Moonlight, Sunrise, Thunder, Rain, Wind and various other effects.
- How to make all kinds of “Properties.”
- How to make up Dresses, Wigs, Beards, etc.
- How to “make up” the Face to imitate Old Men and other characters.
- General Directions for Acting.
- Stage Business, Entrances and Exits.
- Four Appropriate Prologues; Three Epilogues.
- On the Selection of Plays.
- A Family Fix. Comedy for Three Males and three Females.
- The Philopena. Comedy for two Males and one Female.
- Directions for Performing Parlor Pantomimes.
- Love’s Obstacles; or, Jack’s Triumph. An Original Parlor Pantomime.
- Complete Directions for Performing Shadow Pantomimes.
- Detailed Instructions for producing all Shadow Illusions.
- The Feejee Islanders at Home. An Original and unequaled Shadow Pantomime.
- A list of Farces, Comedies, etc., specially adapted to Parlor Performances, with the Characters of Each Enumerated and Described.
16mo, illuminated paper covers. Price 30 cts.
Bound in Boards 50 cts.
Howard’s Book of Drawing-Room Theatricals. A collection of short and amusing plays in one act and one scene, especially adapted for private performances; with practical directions for their preparation and management. Some of the plays are adapted for performers of one sex only.
| Contents. | ||
| Males. | Females. | |
| Explanations of stage directions. | ||
| Hints to Amateurs. | ||
| The Student’s Frolic | 3 | 2 |
| A Household Fairy | 1 | 1 |
| A Kiss in the Dark | 2 | 3 |
| Mrs. Willis’ Will | 5 | |
| Jack of all Trades | 6 | |
| His First Brief | 3 | 2 |
| A Sudden Arrival | 5 | |
| A Medical Man | 2 | 1 |
| A Terrible Secret | 2 | 2 |
| Poisoned | 4 | |
| An Eligible Situation | 2 | 6 |
| “Wanted a Young Lady” | 2 | 1 |
Paper Covers. Price 30 cts.
Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Tambo’s End-Men’s Minstrel Gags. Containing some of the best jokes and repartees of the most celebrated “burnt cork” performers of our day. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes. Also containing a rich collection of Ballads, humorous and pathetic. Darkey Dialogues, Sketches, Plantation Scenes, Eccentric Doings, Humorous Lectures, Laughable Interludes, Huge Africanisms, Burlesque Stump Speeches. Mirth-provoking Witticisms, Conundrums, Yarns, Plantation Songs and Dances, etc., etc. In short, a complete Hand-Book of Burnt Cork Drollery, which will be found alike useful to the professional and amateur. Everything new and rich.
Paper covers. 30 cts.
Bound in boards, with cloth back 50 cts.
Tony Denier’s Parlor Tableaus, or Living Pictures. Containing about eighty popular subjects, with plain and explicit directions for arranging the stage, dressing-rooms, lights, full description of costumes, duties of stage manager, properties and scenery required, and all the necessary directions for getting them up. Among the contents there are nine tableaux for male and an equal number for female characters only. A great number of them introduce groups of boys, and many more groups of girls only; others again introducing both; and still more in which entire classes can take part. Everything is stated in a plain, simple manner, so that it will be easily understood; everything like style or unnecessary show has been avoided. For public or private entertainment, there is nothing which is so interesting as the tableau.
Price 25 cts.