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g to sleep." The magic tree, the silver leaves, the
golden fruit, the knight and his fine steed, and the climax of the
tale when the golden apple rolls from under the cask--all possess
unusual interest. There is exceptional beauty in the setting of this
tale; and its message of the worth of goodness places it in line with
_Cinderella_. It should be dramatized as two complete episodes, each
of three acts:--
_The Goat Episode_
_Place_ The home and the forest.
_Time_ Summer.
_Act I, Scene i_. A home scene showing how the Mother and
Sisters despised Two-Eyes.
_Scene ii_. Two-Eyes and the Fairy.
_Scene iii_. Two-Eyes and the Goat. Evening of the first day.
_Act II, Scene i_. One-Eye went with Two-Eyes. Third morning.
Song ... Feast ... Return home.
_Act III, Scene i_. Three-Eyes went with Two-Eyes. Fourth
morning. Song ... Feast ... Return home.
_The Story of Two-Eyes_
_Place_ The forest; and the magic tree before the house.
_Time_ Summer.
_Act I, Scene i_. Two-Eyes and the Fairy.
_Act II, Scene i_. The magic tree. Mother and Sisters attempt to
pluck the fruit.
_Act III, Scene i_. The Knight. Second attempt to pluck fruit.
Conclusion. The happy marriage.
_Snow White_
_The Story of Snow White_ is one of the romantic fairy tales which has
been re-written and staged as a play for children, and now may be
procured in book form. It was produced by Winthrop Ames at the Little
Theatre in New York City. The dramatization by Jessie Braham White
followed closely the original tale. The entire music was composed by
Edmond Rickett, who wrote melodies for a number of London Christmas
pantomimes. The scenery, by Maxfield Parrish, was composed of six
stage pictures, simple, harmonious, and beautiful, with tense blue
skies, a dim suggestion of the forest, and the quaint architecture of
the House of the Seven Dwarfs. Pictures in old nursery books were the
models for the scenes. Because of the simplicity of the plot and the
few characters, _Snow White_ could be played very simply in four
scenes, by the children of the second and third grades for the
kindergarten and first grade.
_Snow White_
_Scene i_. A Festival on the occasion of Snow White's sixteenth
birthday.
_Scene ii_. In the Forest.
_Scene iii_. A Room in the House of the Seven Dwarfs.
_Scene iv_. The Recepti
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