Good Times with the Juniors

by Lilian M. Heath

(Frank and Carol help her to raise the lid. Out come Dismal Dumps and the Bugaboo Man, but completely transformed, in new and glittering costumes, and with smiling faces. Both come forward.)

Dismal Dumps. I found, when I once got into the Sunshine Box, that I couldn’t be dismal any longer!

Bugaboo Man. And I found that it isn’t half so much fun to frighten children as it is to amuse them!

Both. So we are both going to be sunshine people ourselves, like all good Juniors.

Dorothy (shaking hands with them). I’m so glad! Now we’ll all be happy ever after.

(Bells begin ringing again. Music. March of all the characters, and final tableau.)

CURTAIN.

Variation of “The Bells of Bonnydingle” for Christmas.

To adapt the play to Christmas, where there are gifts to be distributed, omit the final march, and, instead, add the following bit of dialogue after Dorothy speaks for the last time: