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r elaborate, as may be desired. Time, 1-1/2 hours. Particularly adapted for girls' high schools. The action of the play occurs in Boston. The cast, including as it does two Southern girls, a prim Boston matron, an old darkey mammy, an Irish maid, the "twinnies" and the other Boston residents, gives great scope for character acting. PRICE 35 CENTS A CONVERTED SUFFRAGIST A play in 1 act, by Katharine Kavanaugh. 3 female characters. 1 easy interior scene. Time, about 30 minutes. Modern costumes. An excellent opportunity for a clever dialect comedienne, as an old darkey mammy has a very effective role and is quite important in developing the unexpected climax. PRICE 15 CENTS THE WHITE DOVE OF ONEIDA A romantic drama in 2 acts and an after scene, by Helen P. Kane. 4 female characters. Plain interior scene. Time, about 45 minutes. Easily produced. An absorbing story of a child who has been stolen by the Indians and her restoration after many years. PRICE 15 CENTS A LESSON IN ELEGANCE A play in 1 act, by Bernard Herbert. 4 female characters. Parlor scene. Modern costumes. Time, 30 minutes. A bright little society play, with numerous keen witticisms at the expense of ultra-fashionable people. PRICE 15 CENTS VAUDEVILLE SKETCHES THE COWARD A dramatic episode in 1 act, by Taylor Ewen. 5 male, 2 female characters. 1 interior scene. Time, about 30 minutes. A small-cast Western sketch so often desired. Arthur Royce, a telegraph operator in a Western state, a former Harvard student, now in league with two road agents, holds up the Overland Limited. Ongua, an Indian also a Harvard man who was basely treated by Royce while at Cambridge, is aware of his connection with the hold-up. What the road agents do and how Royce is saved by the Indian is dramatically told in this little sketch. PRICE 25 CENTS HIS DINNER FOR TWO A playlet in 1 act, by Franklin Johnston. 1 male, 1 female character. 1 interior scene. Time, about 20 minutes. The perplexities of a young poet and his wife in financial distress. He discovers that their very last possible dinner is barely sufficient for one. To make sure that his wife shall have it alone, he pretends to have an engagement with friends. She, unaware of his self-denial, gets a little jealous of his preferring the society of friends and leaving her alone. He suddenly obtains lucrative employment and returns to tell her of it. A mere sketch, but admi
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