SHORT PLAYS ABOUT FAMOUS AUTHORS
(Goldsmith, Dickens, Heine, Fannie Burney, Shakespeare)
By Maude Morrison Frank. $1.00 net.
The Mistake at the Manor shows the fifteen-year-old Goldsmith in the midst of the humorous incident in his life which later formed the basis of “She Stoops to Conquer.”
A Christmas Eve With Charles Dickens reveals the author as a poor factory boy in a lodging-house, dreaming of an old-time family Christmas.
When Heine was Twenty-one dramatizes the early disobedience of the author in writing poetry against his uncle’s orders.
Miss Burney at Court deals with an interesting incident in the life of the author of “Evelina” when she was at the Court of George III.
The Fairies’ Plea, which is an adaptation of Thomas Hood’s poem, shows Shakespeare intervening to save the fairies from the scythe of Time.
Designed in general for young people near enough to the college age to feel an interest in the personal and human aspects of literature, but the last two could easily be handled by younger actors. They can successfully be given by groups or societies of young people without the aid of a professional coach.
LITTLE PLAYS FROM AMERICAN HISTORY
FOR YOUNG FOLKS
By Alice Johnstone Walker. $1.00 net.
Hiding the Regicides, a number of brief and stirring episodes, concerning the pursuit of Colonels Whalley and Goff by the officers of Charles II at New Haven in old colony days.
Mrs. Murray’s Dinner Party, in three acts, is a lively comedy about a Patriot hostess and British Officers in Revolutionary Days.