Note.—The complete words and score of the musical comedy “San Toy,” to the airs of which the song in this entertainment adapt themselves, can be supplied by Dick & Fitzgerald, post-paid, on receipt of $2.00.
STAGE DIRECTIONS
R., right, as performer stands facing audience; L., left, as performer stands facing audience; C., centre; U. E., upper entrance, i.e., entrance nearest the back of stage; 1 E., first entrance, i.e., entrance nearest footlights; UP STAGE, away from footlights; DOWN STAGE, toward footlights.
FOREWORD
The Japanese are notably and effusively polite in their deportment. Japanese girls are especially kind-hearted and obliging. Their religion denies them immortality, and they believe that their paramount duty in life is to please.
Their education imbues them with an intense love of flowers, bright colors and all that is beautiful; it inculcates the extreme of social etiquette in every-day deportment; it adds words of compliment in the commonest phrases of conversation, and, moreover, teaches them to rely on signs, omens and tutelary gods, both good and evil.
In this “Romance” the quaint and sprightly style of Japanese expressions is carried out as faithfully as possible, and the performers must study carefully the endless obeisances and quaint dialogue which are indispensable to make it effective.