Each time before the wheel is started the players in the stalls must change places.
When one gift has been won and taken from the bag put another in its place and Fortune will roll the wheel until all the gifts are gone and the game ended.
CHAPTER XXVI
LIVING ALPHABET
Characters: All the letters of the alphabet, half girls, half boys; teacher.
Costumes: Girls dressed entirely in red, boys in white. Teacher wears a pretty Dolly Varden costume, and carries a white switch tied with red ribbon.
The back of the stage is decorated with palms and other greens. The overture is played, which glides into a march as the curtain rises.
Enter the teacher and letters from the right. The letters march in single file in the order of the alphabet (alternately a girl and boy) headed by the teacher, who keeps time with her switch. After crossing the stage the teacher leaves the procession and stands at the left. The letters turn, march back to the right behind the advancing line, turn again, forming a reversed S, march to the left, then around the front of the stage to the right, marching in a circle until a half circle is formed at the back of the stage, where they halt and remain standing. Fig. 589 shows the order of march. As the letters enter they carry their shields on their left arms; as they turn to the right they shift them onto their right arms, always keeping the face of the shield toward the audience. When standing the shield is held with both hands directly in front so that the letters may be plainly visible.
Teacher. Attention! Present a greeting to our friends!
The letters A E L S T U step to the front of the stage and stand in line.