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Excerpt from Better Than Gold: A Drama in Four ActsPeter. Acts I., III. And IV., blue coat with brass buttons, nankeen pants and vest, gray wig, hat. Act II., black clothes, white tie, gloves and hat.Gilbert. Acts I. And IV., light gray suit, mustache, straw hat. Act II. Shooting -jacket, leggings, game-bag, cap, mustache and goatee, ¿orid face. Act III. Rough and ragged hair and beard, haggard face, dark pants, calico shirt, black frock, no v...

Excerpt from Messmates a Drama in Three ActsTeddy (picking up The situation is getting decidedly interesting, I've run away into the bosom of my family. They must have come on board after dark. Here's a pretty how d'ye do. Well, impudence, befriend me.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgo...

Excerpt from The Mimic Stage: A Series of Dramas, Comedies, Burlesques, and Farces, for Public Exhibitions and Private TheatricalsThe gratifying success of a previous volume of amateur dramas, and the increasing demand for pieces of a light character suitable for representation without the usual costly theatrical accessories, has induced the writer to prepare a second volume for publication. Like the first, it contains pieces which have been s...

Excerpt from The Pilgrim Spirit: A Pageant in Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, December 21, 1620As the Pageant begins, there is a fanfare of trumpets passing to a hymn-like chord. From the canopied rock a rich, powerful voice speaks. The speaker is unseen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis...

Excerpt from The Boston Dip: A Comedy, in One ActIda. Especially as those charming waltzers, Messrs. Richard Dashe'r and Lavender Kids, the glass of fashion and the mould of form, are to' honor us with their presence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art te...

Excerpt from Capuletta, or Romeo and Juliet Restored: An Operatic BurlesqueCap. N ow is the winter of my discontent Made glorious summer by this dark night sent, And all the troubles gathering o'er my house In inky darkness I may bid vamouee.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books...

Excerpt from Ballads of Bravery: With Forty Full-Page IllustrationsSexton, Bessie's white lips faltered, pointing to the prison old, With its walls so tall and gloomy, walls so dark and damp and cold, I 've a lover in that prison, doomed this very night to die At the ringing of the curfew and no earthly help is nigh. Cromwell will not come till sunset, and her face grew strangely white, As she spoke in husky whispers, Curfew must not ring to-n...

Excerpt from Little Brown JugHannah. Act 1 and 2, Plain calico dresses. Act 3. White dress.Mary. Act 1, Red or brown dress, white collar, neat apron, sleeves rolled up. Act 2, Figured muslin.. Act 3, White.Sally. Act 1, Calico dress, white collar and cuffs, bonnet or hat. Acts 2 and 3, Neat calico or muslin.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book...

Excerpt from My Brother's Keeper: A Drama in Three ActsHit Him, He has No Friends. A Farce in One Act. By E. Yates and N. H. Harrington. 7 Male, 3 Female characters.The Christening. A Farce in One Act. By J. B. Buckstone. 5 Male, 6 Female characters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgott...

Excerpt from Forty Minutes With a Crank or the Seldarte Craze, 1889: A FarceProfessor A Molt. Iron-gray wig, bald on top, old-fashioned suit of any kind spectacles worn low down on his nose, so that he looks over the top of them. His manner is quick and jerky. The description of the system on page 9 should be given with rapid but distinct utterance, great enthusiasm, and many gestures.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of th...

Excerpt from The Reading Club: 50 Selections in Prose and PoetryO'er which our Northern squadrons faced The hard-pressed Southern ranks, And where Hood's surly ambush crouched Along the river's marge, The pickets brought a prisoner in, Captured in some brief charge.This was a stripling trumpeter, A mere lad, fitter far To grace some loving mother's hearth Than these grim scenes Of war, But still with proud defiant inien He bore his soldier's c...

Excerpt from Running to Waste: The Story of a TomboyMiss Becky's costume, however, did not fur nish a fitting finish to her face and figure, but, on the contrary, seemed much the worse for wear. A high-neck, blue-check apron showed unmistakable signs of familiarity with grape and berry juices, the rusty brown dress which peeped out beneath it was plentifully sown with tares, and had a rough fringe at the bottom never placed there by the dress-...

Excerpt from Comrades a Drama in Three ActsRoyal. Age 35. Act 1. Velvet breakfast jacket, light pants, dark vest, dark curly wig slightly sprinkled with gray, dark mustache, and side whiskers. Act II. Dark suit, thin travelling ulster, slouch hat. Act III. Dark mixed suit.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important h...

Excerpt from Our Folks: A Play in Three ActsCapt. Thompson. Act I. Dark pants, blue-checked shirt, collar thrown back: black neckerchief, with sailor-knot, thin coat, broad-brimmed straw hat. Act. II. Dark pants and vest, white shirt and collar, dressing-gown. Act. III. Change gown to dark coat. Bald, iron-gray wig and short side whiskers with all.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fin...

Excerpt from Original Entertainments and Burlesques: For Stage or SchoolBall. Waiting-ram in a depot. Placards on wall Time-table Look out for Pickpoclcets No Smoking Allowed. Trunk, R. Chair, table, 0. Chair, L. A! Rising of curtain, a train is heard leaving.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical wor...

Excerpt from Medley Dialect Recitations: Comprising a Series of the Most Popular Selections in German, French, and ScotchVake up, my schveet! Vake up, my lofe! Der moon dot can't been seen abofe. Vake oud your eyes, und dough it's late, I'll make you oud a serenate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historic...

Excerpt from Ballads of BeautyBeauty gives The features perfectness, and to the form Its delicate proportions: she may stain The eye with a celestial blue, the cheek With carmine of the sunset, she may breathe Grace into every motion, like the play Of the least visible tissue of a cloud, She may give all that's rich - her own Bright cestus - and one glance of Intellect.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare ...

Excerpt from Past Redemption: A Drama in Four ActsHarry Maynard. Act I. Neat gray suit, with game-bag, felt hat, leggings, Act III. White shirt without collar, rusty black pants, and coat out at elbows, unshorn face, hollow eyes. Act IV. Light pants, dark vest and coat, with white overcoat, high-colored handkerchief thrown about the neck, felt hat.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fin...

Excerpt from Above the Clouds: A Drama in Two ActsBit Him, He has No Friends. A Farce in One Act. By E. Yates and N. H. Harrington. 7 Male, 3 Female characters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving th...

Excerpt from Paris of TroyWe rode on. With every hour we put between ourselves and the city his spirits rose, he laughed and 'chattered like the child he really was. But he never forgot that the jour ney was part of his training as a prince and a soldier. His quick glance missed nothing, and his comments were shrewd.There Was a rude sort of cottage at the edge of a deep wood on the lowest slope of the mountain, where I planned to spend the nig...