{"1": {"fulltext": "635 I\\n:3 2sro T=0LiJ\u00c2\u00b1rz- ^sscn^-ira-EiD-\\nI II\\nBakers\\nNovelties\\nTHE ADVERTISING GIRLS\\nCOPWUGHT, 1889, BY WALTEK H. BAKER CO-", "height": "3711", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "^^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2T*-*5 K\\nI A. W. PINERO S PLAYS.\\nifiv Uniformly Bound in Stiff Paper Covers,\\nPrice, 50 cents each.\\ndS\\nffj The publication of the plays of this popular author, made feasible by the new ff J\\niiV Copyright Act, under which his valuable stage rights can be fully protected, ifAV\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a23 enables us to offer to amateur actors a series of modern pieces of the highest f|J\\niiV class, all of which have met with distinguished success in the leading English iii\\n*f and American theatres, and most of which are singularly well adapted for am a- y\\nifAV teur performance. This publication was originally intended for the benefit of ifAV\\nft* readers only, but the increasing demand for the plays for acting purposes has fl*\\n/AV far outrun their merely literary success. With the idea of placing this excel- ifli\\n*f lent series within the reach of the largest possible number of amateur clubs, we f|*\\niiV have obtained authority to offer them for acting purposes at an author s rov- ifiv\\nW altyof f|\\n^Ay Ten Dollars for Each Performance. iii\\nifAW This rate does not apply to professional performances, for which terms will be ifiC\\nCf* made known on application. wm\\\\\\nffj TWT7 A M A7/YI\\\\TC I A Farcical Romance in Three Acts. By Arthur ffj\\n/AV /VLVI AZ^INO* I w p INEK0 Seven male and five female char- jfli\\nr acters. Costumes, modern; scenery, an exterior f|*\\nk| and an interior, not at all difficult.. This admirable farce is too well known Kk j\\nMr through its recent performance by the Lyceum Theatre Company, New York, to Mr\\ni|*4 need description. It is especially recommended to young ladies schools and k |j\\nMr colleges. (1895.) Mr\\nW THE CABINET MINISTER. J i.SKf^pSSo.^Sgi \u00c2\u00bbffi W\\nk|\u00c2\u00b0tf and nine feniale characters. k*|j\\nMr Costumes, modern society scenery, three interiors. A very amusing piece, in- Mr\\nk|*4 genious in construction, and brilliant in dialogue. (1892.) k 1 4\\nMr DANDY DTOC I A Farce in Three Acts. By Arthur W. Pinero. \\\\f/\\nk|]* i J. i- i J--M.*wi.v.* Seven male, four female characters. Costumes, mod- t|j\\nMr ern scenery, two interiors. This very amusing piece Mr\\nCm a was another success in the New York and Boston theatres, and has been ex- k k g\\nMr tensively played from manuscript by amateurs, for whom it is in every respect Mr\\nj suited. It provides an unusual number of capital character parts, is very funny, Ck g\\nMr and an excellent acting piece. Plays two hours and a half. (1893.)\\nttj THF HORRV HORSF I A Comedy in Three Acts. By Arthur eft\\nMr L rLKJDD n\\\\JF*JE\u00c2\u00bb w p ineko Ten male, five female char- Mf\\n1 acters. Scenery, two interiors and an ex-\\nMr terior costumes, modern. This piece is best known in this country through the Mr\\nadmirable performance of Mr. John Hare, who produced it in all the principal\\nMr cities. Its story presents a clever satire of false philanthropy, and is full of yaf\\nt*| interest and humor. Well adapted for amateurs, by whom it has been success-\\nMr f ull Y acted. Plays two hours and a half. (1892.) Mr\\nT ATYV RnTTTOTTFTTT I A Play 2n Four Acts. By Arthur w. Mf\\nJV/Wl^ i 11 UU PTTSTF-RO. Rifflitmsilftanrl Rflr ftn ffimalfichar.\\nw\u00c2\u00a5% A 1Y KC 11 IiM I IHi il A Jria, y 31 rour accs. oy abthib vv.\\nCI/ ^fLU DUUi X JJUL I Pinero. Eight male and seven female char-\\nJflv J acters. Costumes, modern scenery, four Mf\\nkli interiors, not easy. A play of powerful sympathetic interest, a little sombre in \\\\l/\\n;Y. ke r Dut not unrelieved by humorous touches. (1892.) \u00e2\u0084\u00a2s", "height": "3745", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "The Advertising Girls\\nA Masque of Very Fly Leaves\\nin Two Scenes\\nBv AMELIA SANFORD\\nBOSTON\\nWAITER H. BAKER CO", "height": "3745", "width": "2225", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "56927. T^t3^\\nThe Advertising Girls\\nCHARACTERS\\nThe Bicycle Girl, The Flare s Soap Girl,\\nThe Girl Who Did, The Frantic-American Soup\\n[Girl.\\nThe Girl Who Didn t, The Washing-Powder Girl,\\nThe Violet Extract Girl, The Chief Rabbit Girl or\\n[toy),\\nThe Patent-Dressing Girl, Mrs. Motherly.\\nProcession of Twenty-Five Rabbits. (Boys or girls.)\\nTime in representation forty-five minutes.\\nCopyright, 1900, by Walter H. Baker Co.\\nABBREVIATIONS\\nR. R., Right Rear; L. R., Left Rear; R. F, Right Front; L. F., Left\\nFront; C, Centre; F. C, Front Centre; R. C, Rear Centre.\\nTWO COPIES SECti\\nL,braf 3 \u00c2\u00abMgMM\\nOffls* of *t,\\nHegisfer of", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "COSTUMES AND PROPERTIES\\nThe Bicycle Girl. Bicycle and bicycle suit.\\nThe Girl Who Did. Very neat, rather plain street dress.\\nCarries a horn, about four feet long, made of white pasteboard or\\nbuckram, on which is printed, Use Flim-flam s Skirt-braid.\\nThe Girl Who Didn t. Street costume rather dressy\\nvery untidy, especially a skirt with torn and ragged edges, and\\na length of skirt braid trailing after.\\nThe Patent-Dressing Girl. Ordinary dress. Bottle of\\nblacking. Very pretty shoes.\\nThe Flare s Soap Girl. House-dress or tea-gown. A\\npiece of toilet soap.\\nThe Violet Extract Girl.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 White dress and garden hat,\\ntrimmed with violets, and violets pinned about dress. Large\\nbottle of cologne or extract, tied with violet ribbon.\\nThe Frantic- American Soup Girl. Very short and slen-\\nder girl, the younger the better. French cook s cap and apron,\\nand carries tureen with a ladle in it on tray. This is a familiar\\nadvertising figure, and model can easily be found.\\nThe Washing-Powder Girl. Servant s cap and apron and\\npan of water, box of washing-powder, and eight towels\\nbrown crash and very large.\\nMrs. Motherly. Gotten up to represent middle-aged house-\\nkeeper. Dark dress, large apron, bunch of keys, etc.\\nThe Chief Rabbit. Same costume as\\nTwenty-five Junior Rabbits. Ordinary dress, so they are\\nall uniform in color and style. Hood, fitting tightly, of white\\ncanton flannel or cambric. Ears made of the same material\\nand wired, so as to stand upright. Hands covered with mittens\\nof the same, to look like paws. Each one carries a broom.\\nEach. broom is wound with a piece of white, on which is pasted\\na large black letter, so that in marching, letters spell\\nR-A-B-B-I-T-S S-O-A-P W-O-N-T W-A-S-H C-L-O-TrH-E-S", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "The Advertising Girls.\\nSCENE I.\\nSCENE. Garden scene, if it can be arranged, or use plain\\nbackground. At r., back, an exit, and over it a large sign\\nSummer Home for Working Girls. AtL., back, another\\nexit, concealed by a large clothes-horse, or a screen, opened\\nout to represent an open book. This is to be covered with\\nyellow cambric, dull side out, on one side of which is painted\\nin large, black letters Hopper s New Magazine, and on\\nthe other side Established b. c. 9843. Stand this in\\nsuch a way as to open away from the audience. It will thus\\nconceal the entrance, and actors coming in from there will\\nlook as though they stepped out of a large book. At centre\\nof stage, at back, is a good-sized table, with chair at each\\nside. At r. and l. of stage, are. rustic chairs, potted\\nplants, etc.\\nEnter Bicycle Girl, \\\\,.,from book, with wheel. Takes itR.\\nthrows herself down wearily in chair, r. f. Addresses au-\\ndience.\\nBi. Free at last What a mercy it is to us poor girls in\\nthe advertising pages that the magazines are left in out-of-the-\\nway places, where we may occasionally rest That s a back-\\nnumber, which the Summer Girls left here when they went\\nback to town. {Rising, walks about!) I am a wretched crea-\\nture, evolved from the brain of some needy artist to furnish an\\nadvertisement for bicycles. There are other girls in the back\\nof that book (stops and looks at it) forever washing their hands\\nwith Somebody s Soap, brushing their hair and scrubbing floors.\\nI wonder why they don t come out. I m sure they re tired\\nenough. (Goes back to book, pretends to turn pages.) Say,\\ngirls, the coast is clear come out\\nEnter the Girl Who Did and the Girl Who Didn t.", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "6 THE ADVERTISING GIRLS.\\nDid (rushing forward}. Oh, you dear thing, it s so per-\\nfectly fine to be able to speak and move at last\\n(G. W. Didn t catches her foot in skirt-braid dances a sort\\nof Jig; screams and falls flat.)\\nBi. What ails your sister Is she subject to these attacks\\nDid (helping G. W. Didn t to a chair). Oh, you poor\\nthing never mind. (Sits on arm of chair, consoling G. W.\\nDidn t who cries.) You see (to Bi.) sister and I have to ap-\\npear in advertisements as the Girl Who Did and the Girl Who\\nDidn t use Flim-flam s Patent Indestructible Dust-proof and\\nFire-proof skirt-braid, warranted one thousand miles to the\\nyard. I am the Girl Who Did and she is the Girl Who Didn t.\\nThey always show off poor sis with a wretched skirt-braid\\nforever tripping her up, while I stand in such a priggish atti-\\ntude, like this. {Stands in burlesque attitude of admonition.)\\nAnd I have this great long pipe coming out of my mouth and\\nit says on it: Why Didn t you use Flim-flam s Patent In-\\ndestruc\\nBi. and Didn t (fingers in their ears). Oh, don t say it\\nany more\\nBi. (walking c. f. with Did). Let s think of something to\\nhelp your poor sister.\\nDidn t. It isn t my bones that hurt, but my feelings.\\nDid. I think that s the matter with all three of us. What\\nwe need is to have a real good time together, something to eat,\\nand a little music. What do you think\\nBi. (holding out her hand). I think you re a real nice girl\\nwhen you re on a vacation, however you may appear at other\\ntimes.\\nDid. Thank you so much I ll call some of the others.\\nCome, dears, we want you\\nEnter l. from book, Patent-Dressing Girl; goes r. f.\\nFlare s Soap Girl; goes l. f. Violet Extract Girl;\\ngoes c. f. All put down their things. Attitudes of weari-\\nness.\\nBi. (coming forward). Ladies, I think we all know our-\\nselves and each other but merely for the sake of explicitness,\\nI ll run over your names. (To Patent-Dressing Girl.)\\nYou, dear, are the Shoe-Blacking Girl\\nPatent Dressing (haughtily). I m the young lady who\\nrepresents Snoodles Patent Dressing", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE ADVERTISING GIRLS. J\\n{Girls look at each other, and whisper.\\nDid {putting arm around Bi.). I ll finish the list, dear, if\\nyou feel too much wilted.\\nBi. I have a sort of pneumatic tired feeling. {Goes to\\nchair near table, L. R.)\\nDid. And this is the well-known lady who lives to praise\\nFlare s Soap and our dear little friend with the Violet Ex-\\ntract. {They all bow, courtesy, or shake hands.) Now, let s\\nall be sociable.\\nThey settle about stage in easy attitudes, whispering and\\nvisiting together. Girl Who Didn t, coming c. f., may\\ndo a burlesque fancy dance, holding the torn skirt-braid\\noff in one hand, and using the big horn like a Spanish\\nfan. Music of skirt dance behind scenes, changing to\\nHoneymoon March, or other march, played softly as\\nfirst.\\nDidn t. Girls, I just long for a good time. I wish some-\\nthing really odd and funny would happen. {March music,\\nlouder.\\nBi. {looking toward book, jumps up and claps hands). Some-\\nthing will, this minute Look, girls\\n(Girls run to c. Rabbits enter l. from book, march r., to\\nr. f., across front, showing letters on brooms, where they\\nmarch to time, sixteen counts up l./ halt lay down brooms\\nat their left side right face join paws and bow to Girls.\\nBi. Oh, you dear little things Have you come to play\\nwith us\\nChief Rabbit. We don t object to occasional levity, but\\nfirst we would like to ask you a few questions. May we all sit\\ndown\\nGirls. Certainly\\n{All sit down on floor, forming half circle facing audience\\nRabbits l. Girls r.\\nCh. R. Our questions are rather personal. You will not\\nobject\\nGirls. Not at all. {To audience.) Aren t they too dear?\\nRabbits. Not at all. We re twenty- six Rabbits\\nf Girls laugh Rabbits scrateh their right ears^)", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "8 THE ADVERTISING GIRLS.\\nCh. R. (to Bi.). Who are you, please?\\nBi. My name is Bike. (Draws herself tip.) Descended\\nH from the Bikings, you know\\nCh. R. No, you re not.\\nBi. (frigidly). May I ask why not?\\nCh. R. May /ask how fast your wheel turns around?\\nBi. I shall have to figure it out.\\n(Burlesque attitude of deep thought, which is imitated by\\nother Girls. Rabbits fold their arms stiffly and look at\\naudience. Perfect silence for two or three seconds.}\\nBi. It makes, in one minute, six thousand nine hundred\\nand twenty-four and seventy-one three hundred sixty-fourths\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nah revolutions.\\nCh. R. Then you re a Daughter of the Revolution, aren t\\nyou?\\nBi. {rising with great emotion). This honor is as over-\\nwhelming as it is unexpected but I will try not to be unduly\\nexalted.\\n(Walks back and forth, burlesque air of dignity. Other\\ngirls rise and stand bowed as in the Mikado\\nSong Air Mikado The Lord High Executioner.\\nGirls. Defer! Defer!\\nFor we ain t half so good as her.\\nDefer Defer\\nFor we ain t half so good as her\\nNot half so good as her\\nCh. R. Don t keep that up any longer, ladies. (Girls\\nstand erect, looking down at him.) Miss Bike has a rival.\\nViolet (coming forward arms around Bi.). Not in me,\\nat any rate.\\nCh. R. You are the very one.\\nBi. We both have claims on your veneration\\nCh. R. Precisely. Let me explain. Miss Violet, in what\\ndepartment do you advertise?\\nViolet. Colognes.\\nCh. R. Then I am right in assuming that you are a\\nCologne-ial Dame?\\n{Counter-marching, Bi. and Violet, Girls, as before, sing.)", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THE ADVERTISING GIRLS, 9\\nGirls. Defer Defer\\nTis strange that such things do occur\\nDefer Defer\\nTis strange that such things do occur,\\nBut still they do occur\\nBi. Friends, let s have a Virginia Reel, and then we must\\nconsider what is to become of us, before any human people\\ncome in to disturb us. {All but Patent-Dressing Girl pair\\noff, each with a Rabbit, down the centre the rest of the Rabbits\\ncarry their brooms to R. R., where they stand looking on. Pat.\\nsits down at table in attitude of deep thought. Come on, Pat.\\nPat. No I wish to devote a few moments to meditation\\nand other exercises.\\nVirginia Reel. M^hen it is about half over, Pat. goes out\\nr. r., comes back presently and stands near r. r., with\\narms full of kindlings, sticks of wood, etc. Toward the\\nend of the dance, the Rabbits at r., run to a, and holding\\nup their brooms, make a double line, with brooms raised,\\nunder which all march, and scatter about stage afterward?)\\nAll. Why, Pat., what are you doing?\\nDidn t. She s had the meditation, I suppose these are the\\nexercises.\\nPat. {loads one or two Rabbits with wood, and sends them\\nr. r. comi?ig down a). I have a plan for our emancipation,\\nat least for a time, from this eternal round of advertising, and\\nI believe we can get a lovely long rest. We could have this\\nplace to ourselves all the year around, if we could only scare\\npeople away, and I believe I know how to do it.\\nAll. How\\nPat. By tearing down that sign and putting up another\\nSociety for the Propagation of Microbes. You know, if\\nthere s anything people fear especially, it s a microbe, and they\\nwill all keep away when they read the sign. And why not\\nmake a bonfire of all the things which have wearied us so\\nlong Also, we can add the old magazine, to make a good\\nblaze Then our emancipation will be complete.\\nAll. Oh, how glorious We ll carry them out in the\\nyard\\nBi. What about my wheel\\nPat. Oh, save that. Have one of those baby-jumpers put\\non in front, you know then you can take us with you for nice\\nlong rides.", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "10 THE ADVERTISING GIRLS,\\nBi. But wouldn t that be rather warm for me?\\nPat. Oh, but think of the benefit to your health\\nCh, R. It sounds like a fine large opportunity.\\nBi. True. I will keep the wheel.\\nPat. Before we blow up the magazine, you may pile on all\\nthe other things. {Sitting down lazily, You do the work,\\nand I ll make the remarks.\\nBi. Better help, dear. Think of the benefit to your health.\\nPat. But I am more concerned about other people s health.\\nI always was that way.\\nCh. R. I wish to make one exception to the program.\\nYou know, a thing, in order to burn, must be dry. And I ve\\nheard people say, that there wasn t a dry article in our maga-\\nzine, from beginning to end.\\nPat. If a thing ought to be dry, and turns out to be other-\\nwise, what will it do when you put it on the fire\\nCh. R. It smokes.\\nPat {loftily). That settles it. 1 do not approve of smoking\\nin the presence of ladies.\\n{Other Girls and Rabbits, picking up things, gather c.)\\nPat. {coming f.). Let us sing in honor of our new-found\\nliberty.\\n{Four in line. Stand, singing first verse and refrain.\\nDuring second verse, march around stage. During re-\\nfrain, exit r. R., single file. N. B. Place the best singers\\nlast.)\\nSong. Air Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom.\\nAll.\\nRaise the song of liberty, our toils are at an end\\nHere s the advertising girl whom no one will befriend;\\nEvery worm will turn at last, and hardest luck will mend\\nNow we are on a vacation.\\n{Refrain.)\\nHurrah, hurrah she is the girl for me\\nHurrah, hurrah at last she now is free\\nSo we ll find out for ourselves just how it feels to be\\nOn a protracted vacation\\nAll.\\nHow the Tenth Readers all will wonder what s been done\\nHow the monthly magazines will suffer for our fun\\nAll the most important reading matter will be gone\\nOn a protracted vacation.", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "THE ADVERTISING GIRLS. II\\n{Refrain.)\\nHurrah, hurrah etc.\\n[Exit R. R.\\n{Short pause.\\nMrs. Motherly enters r. r.; comes f., takes chair.\\nMrs. M. I d like to know who s been here, sitting in my\\nchairs {walks around, looks at chairs and tramping around.\\n{Stoops down and examines floor. Jumps to her feet, runs to\\nlook out r. R. and returns c.) I smell smoke Oh, I wish\\nthe girls were here I was so glad when they all went back to\\nthe city; I thought I would rest and take things easy, but,\\nland {Runs off r. r.; comes back with a large lunch-bell\\nexcitedly.) I saw them They re burning up my front yard\\n{Rings and screams.) Help Murder Fire Thieves\\n(Girls come running in.)\\nBi. Don t be alarmed, madam; and please don t make\\nsuch a noise.\\nMrs. M. Who are you\\nBi. We came out of that magazine. Don t you recognize\\nus?\\nMrs. M. Why yes you do look rather natural but I can t\\nrecall your names.\\nBi. Why, we are the girls from the advertising pages. I\\nam the one who rides a bicycle. The others represent soap,\\nshoe-dressing, skirt-braids, and cologne. We did not mean to\\nalarm you we thought the house must be unoccupied, and we\\ncame out to hold a meeting, rest and consult about our pros-\\npects {All seated.\\nMrs. M. Well, on the whole, I m glad to see you. It s\\nbeen lonely here since the girls went back to work. Now, what\\nwere you proposing to do\\nPat. Oh, perhaps you could give us some advice. Our\\nfirst thought was to escape from that dreadful magazine, and to\\nburn our implements.\\nMrs. M. That s why you built the fire?\\nPat. Yes, madam, it is nearly out now, and some ah\\nfriends of ours are going to stay out there till it s done. But\\nwe want to be useful, and make a home for ourselves, if\\npossible.\\nMrs. M. Well, how would you like to work with me for\\nawhile I have to clean house, anyway, and if I had such a", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "12 THE ADVERTISING GIRLS,\\nnumber of nice smart young ladies with me, I could keep a\\nhotel right through the winter.\\nGirls. Oh, lovely Let us begin at once\\nRabbits (running in). Lovely what? Begin what?\\nMrs. M. (hurrying l. f.). Oh, where did all those cats\\ncome from\\nCh. R. Cats Madam, we are rabbits, if you please\\nMrs. M. Oh are you those Welsh Rabbits I ve heard the\\ngirls talk about? They were always saying: Oh, Mrs.\\nMotherly, do have a Welsh Rabbit\\nCh. R. Not that kind at all. I don t like to cast aspersions\\non my kindred, but I m sorry to admit that the very best \u00c2\u00a9f\\nWelsh Rabbits take a great deal of beer.\\nMrs. M, Dear me how s that?\\nCh. R. It simply means, that if you want a Welsh Rabbit,\\nyou must certainly get in your beer.\\nMrs. M. (indignantly). I must, must I You are a very\\nsaucy young person, and you and yours may go at once Con-\\nsigning me to an untimely bier, merely because I express a\\nwish. I shan t get in my bier till some one else puts me there,\\nand that won t be till I m dead. So go along\\n(Rabbits scratch their right ears, form in line, R., and march\\nback into book.)\\nMrs. M. Now, girls, I can t stay here any longer, for I ve\\nlots to do. Would you like to begin at once\\nGirls. Oh, yes\\nMrs. M. Very well this way, if you please. [Exeunt.\\nCURTAIN.", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "SCENE II.\\nSCENE. A kitchen. Clothesline in rear. Tables, chairs,\\netc. Girl Who Didn t, rubbing chairs. Girl Who Did,\\nsitting, R. f., with vegetables in wooden chopping bowl and\\nknife, wiping her eyes. Violet draping dinner -napkins on\\nline, R., makes absurd cesthetic arrangements, drapes\\nthem, ties them in bow-knots, etc.\\nDidn t. Sister, what does make you so sad\\nDid. I can t tell you, dear, but I ve wept ever since I began\\nto work. Is this what human beings call grief I don t\\nlike it. Wiping her eyes. It is so moist.\\nViolet {finishing napkins, comes down c. to v.). But what\\nare you doing\\nDid. These articles are called Onions, and Mrs. Motherly\\nasked me to peel them she wants them for dinner.\\nViolet {going to chair, l. f.). Well, my work is done.\\nBi. {rushing in). Girls, she told me to set the table\\nDidn t. I ll help you.\\n{They lift the table to c, and set it down. Bi. runs out,\\ncalling.)\\nBi. I set it In the middle of the floor Coming back.}\\nShe says, to put the dishes on it\\n{All girls run out, come back with all kinds of baking- dishes\\nsauce-pans, coffee-pots anything unreasonable and ar-\\nrange them in a pyramid.\\nGirls. Isn t that nice {Enter Pat., l. r., with lawn\\nmower?) Mercy, Pat., what is that noisy thing?\\nPat. Mrs. Motherly showed me a thing she called a\\ncarpet-sweeper, when I first went in the dining-room and just\\nnow she told me to get it and sweep this floor. I lost my way\\nand got out in the yard but here it was, the first thing I saw\\n{Runs mower back and forth.}\\nEnter Flare s Soap Girl, l. r., with a pitcher and a horse-\\nwhip.\\nFlare. Girls, I don t want to hurt any one, so please\\nkeep out of my way.\\n!3", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "14 THE ADVERTISING GIRLS.\\nGirls. What are you going to do\\nFlare. Mrs. Motherly told me to whip a pitcher of cream,\\nwhich I was to find in the pantry. I found the cream, but I\\nhad to go away out in the barn to find a whip. {Flourishes\\nwhip hits pitcher, which falls over keeps on whipping at it,\\nGirls {scream). Oh, don t You re spilling it\\nFlare (with dignity Ladies, I do not see the use of this,\\nbut I am doing exactly as I was told, and I cannot be held re-\\nsponsible for the consequences.\\nDidn t. Well, do not like housekeeping. I think it is\\nboth noisy and violent.\\nMrs. Motherly (with a cloth in her hand running in).\\nStop, stop Mercy sakes, are you crazy\\nFlare. You asked me to whip this pitcher of cream.\\nMrs. M. (looks at her and then picks up pitcher, and wipes\\nthe floor). Well, I guess you ve whipped it enough. (To\\nPat.) And what are you doing?\\nPat. I m sweeping.\\nMrs. M. You needn t, any more, not that way. (Pat.\\ntakes out latvn mower and co?nes back.) When I want to clean\\nfloors, I don t generally take the lawn mower, it isn t custo-\\nmary. (To Bi.) Did you set the table?\\nBi., Violet, Didn t and Did. Oh, yes, and we all helped\\nIsn t it lovely?\\nMrs. M. Why, yes, it s lovely it s beautiful but I guess\\nI ll have to show you how I do it. {Business of straightening\\ntable Girls run in and out. Mrs. M. finishes table and looks\\nat clothes line.) Who did this?\\nViolet. I arranged that. The dinner napkins, you know,\\nthat you asked me to put on the line. Did you ever see a\\nclothes line arranged thus?\\nMrs. M. No, I never did. (Aside.) And I never want to\\nagain (To Girls.) Now, ladies, I m going out to make some\\nsoup, and if you re ready (to G. W. Did) we ll put in those\\nonions\\nDid. But there are no onions.\\nMrs. M. Why not\\nDid. Why, I peeled them, and the skin kept coming off,\\nand coming off; and when I got the skins all off, not one of\\nthem had anything inside\\nMrs. M. Well, I guess I can use the skin. Some folks do.\\n(Exit r. r., coming immediately back.) Have any of you seen\\nmy soup stock It was in a bowl on the kitchen table.", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE ADVERTISING GIRLS, 15\\nDidn t. I thought that was varnish, and I rubbed the\\nchairs with it. (Girls sitting on chairs, jump up, and examine\\ntheir skirts and sleeves. I wondered what was the use of do-\\ning that.\\nMrs. M. (wearily). Well, ladies, I believe if you ll stop\\nhelping me for awhile, I d like to work. I m getting rather\\ntired I really don t know what we are to eat. You ve spread\\nthe soup on my chairs, and beaten the cream with a horsewhip\\nand I m too exhausted to even weep over the remains of the\\nonions. Can any one make a suggestion\\nFlare. Now, if that Frantic child were here, we could have\\nsome soup.\\nMrs. M. What frantic child\\nFlare. I mean, the child in the advertisement of Frantic-\\nAmerican Soup Co. I ll go out and see if she s in the pages\\nof the book we just left.\\n{Goes out. Girls and Mrs. M., clean chairs, and sit\\naround stage. Flare and Frantic return, Frantic\\ncarrying tureen.)\\nFrantic. Ladies and my good madam {bowing to each),\\nI have the pleasure of presenting this soup to you and the\\npleasure is great, for I m very tired of it. Naturally I do not\\ncare for any, so shall I sing to you as you eat it?\\nAll. Oh, how kind Thank you\\n(Girls get soup from tureen which has been placed on table,\\nand group around stage, eating and watching Frantic,\\nwho comes down c. to f.\\nSong. Air: I ve Got em on the List. 11 \u00e2\u0080\u0094Mikado.\\nFrantic (sings).\\nI am an advertising girl of transatlantic note,\\nAnd known to all this group,\\nAnd known to all this group.\\nAn enterprising company has set the scheme afloat\\nOf making famous soup,\\nOf making famous soup.\\nThey have put me in the magazines with cap and apron white,\\nWhere I advertise this tiresome soup from morning until night.\\nI have to smile and look as though I thought it was the chief\\nOf all the good things known to man, and nice beyond belief;\\nAnd upon the page above my head are dainties in a group\\nYou ll find them in the soup\\nOh, you ll find them in the soup", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "1 6 THE ADVERTISING GIRLS.\\n{Chorus.)\\nGirls and Mrs. W. (sing).\\nWe ve found them in the soup,\\nOh, we ve found them in the soup;\\nIn the highly-flavored mixture known as soupey soupey soup\\nFrantic (sings).\\nThere are imitation turtle, and all vegetables, too\\nWith all the fowls that troop,\\nWith all the fowls that troop.\\nThere are consomme and noodles, any kind that pleases you,\\nYou ll find them in the soup,\\nYou ll find them in the soup.\\nWe can give you vermicelli, and we d like to have you know\\nThat we can a dozen gallons every hundred years or so\\nYou can take it to the picnic you can drink it hot at noon\\nYou can drink it from a dainty cup, or sip it from a spoon.\\nOh, I wish that you would eat and drink it all at one full swoop\\nFor I m very tired of soup,\\nOh, I m very tired of soup\\n(Chorus.)\\nYou re very tired of soup,\\nBut we re very fond of soup,\\nOf the highly-flavored mixture known as soupey soupey\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -soup\\nMrs. M. I ve been thinking, young ladies, and I ve come\\nto the conclusion that perhaps I ve expected too much of you\\nfor young housekeepers. For you certainly cannot, some of\\nyou, have much experience. (To Flare.) What did you do\\nfor a living before you came here\\nFlare. Oh, I held up a cake of soap, and smiled at it.\\nMrs. M. Well, smiling at it and washing dishes with it, are\\nvery different occupations. Do you know of any nice sensible\\nyoung woman, who would come here and give you girls a lesson\\nin dish-washing, while I go out to buy something for supper\\nBi. There was a girl on the opposite page to me, who had\\nsome kind of powder in a box, and she washed glass and china\\nmost beautifully. I ll go get her. (Runs out.)\\n(Returns l. r., with Washing-powder Girl.)\\nMrs. M. (joyfully). Well, now, you look promising Can\\nI leave you with these dishes, and will you please see that my\\nyoung friends learn how to do them\\nW. P. Yes m.\\n(Goes to table, arranges her pan, and piles up towels. Girls\\ngather around Mrs. M.)", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE ADVERTISING GIRLS. 1 7\\nBi. Dear Mrs. Motherly, we do appreciate your kindness,\\nand will do the best we can.\\nMrs. M. That s right I m sure, when you ve forgotten\\nsome of your novel methods, you ll do nicely.\\nFlare {picking up dish-towel What s this?\\nW. P. That s a dish-towel.\\nGirls. What do you do with it\\nW. P. {acting it out). You take a cup so and put it in\\nthe pan, and then you take a dish-towel and polish it.\\nGirls. Oh what fun let s all do it\\nMrs. M. Good-bye, then. {Starts to r. r.)\\nGirls. Good-bye! {Exit Mrs. M., r. r.\\nBi. Now, we will do this with a hearty good will. I have\\na definite object, which I will explain when our work is done.\\n{Each girl in turn goes to table, takes a cup they stand in\\nrow in front of table facing audience, and wipe cups, as\\nthey sing first verse. Singing chorus, they two-step to front,\\nwaving towels above their heads, Singing second verse,\\nstand in a row, front, and polish cups as before. Sinking\\nchorus, second time, two-step back to table, and pile up\\ncups upon it.)\\nSong. Air Hurrah for the Bonny Blue Flag.\\nAll {sing).\\nOh you must take your dishes up and put them in the pan;\\nAnd then you take some patent stuff to wash them spick and span.\\nThough you may like that part the best, the greatest fun to me\\nIs, just to take a jolly brown rag, and rub them thoroughly.\\n{Chorus and two-step.)\\nHurrah Hurrah Hurrah for the jolly brown rag\\nHurrah, for the jolly brown rag leaves not a single spot\\nThere s joy in doing most things, if they re done the proper way\\nSome pleasant occupation waits for every hour of day\\nBut after dinner comes the time that I like best, myself:\\nTo clean things with a jolly brown rag, and put them on the shelf.\\nChorus and two step.)\\nHurrah Hurrah etc.\\n(Girls come f. c, Bi. in middle.)", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "J 8 THE ADVERTISING GIRLS.\\nPat. And now, what is your object in doing this work\\nBi. Dears, I m going to learn everything about housekeep-\\ning, and you must help me. And then I m going to marry\\nthe Billy s Shaving Soap man, and you shall come to live with\\nus forever.\\nAll. And that will complete the Emancipation of the Ad-\\nvertising Girl.\\nCURTAIN.", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Recitations for School,\\nHOME, EXHIBITION OR PUBLIC\\nENTERTAINMENT.\\nBaker s Handy Speaker,\\nBaker s Premium Speaker,\\nBaker s Popular Speaker,\\nBaker s Favorite Speaker.\\nWe offer these volumes, each containing 200 carefully selected and\\npopular recitations, handsomely bound in cloth, at\\n40 Cents per Volume, Postpaid, by Mail.\\nEach volume contains an admirable assortment of pieces, in prose\\nand verse, humorous, pathetic, dramatic and declamatory, and provides\\na valuable work of reference for such material. Where shall I find\\na good piece to speak is a question that frequently recurs to the mind\\nof the young student, and with these volumes at hand the perplexed\\nteacher could save much time and labor. A considerable preponderance\\nof forensic and judicial material in the contents of these volumes\\nmakes them specially suited for schools, but their selection of humorous\\npieces is particularly strong and of a high class.\\nThe Prize Speaker and The Humorous Speaker\\nof this series are entirely out of print and cannot be supplied,\\nSent, postpaid, on receipt of price, by\\nBAKER, 5 HAMILTON PLACE, BOSTON, MASS.", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "TWO NEW PLAYS FOR LADIES.\\nBREEZY POINT.\\nA Comedy in Three Acts, for Female Characters only.\\nBy BELLE HARSHALL LOCKE.\\nThirteen female characters. Scenery easy, costumes modern. A val-\\nuable addition to the very small list of plays of this character, long\\nenough to provide a full evening s entertainment. The parts are good and\\nwell diversified Aunt Debby, Clem, the gypsy, Fantine.the French maid,\\nand Ashrael, a typical Yankee girl, being stars. A worthy successor to\\nRebecca s Triumph, the interest being equally strong, and the humor-\\nous incident even more abundant.\\nPrice 25 Cents.\\nSYNOPSIS:\\nACT I. At Breezy Point. Ready for visitors. A mixed bokay. A\\nmystery of eighteen years. A feminine invasion. The love-sick butcher.\\nThe French maid. Language lessons. A secret. Fast friends. A bunch\\nof roses. Aunt Debby. Patent medicine. The gypsy. Telling fortunes.\\nYou re better off not to hear it\u00e2\u0080\u0094 better off. The clue.\\nACT II.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In camp. Washing dishes. French diplomacy. The hay\\nride. The Hardscratch twins. A snap-shot. Won t it go off? Pop-corn\\nand unpopped questions. A quaint visitor. Samanthy s little weakness.\\nCatarrh snuff. The elder s courtship. Black Donald s ghost. The gypsy\\nagain. A peep into the past. Girls fishing. Fantine s elopement. The\\nletter. Ashrael s discovery. That French fiend has stolen my beau! A\\nchance to rise. Nofoolin Following the clue.\\nACT III.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Breezy Point again. Making cake. The twins again. Ston-\\ning raisins. An interlude. Bridget Ann Burke, never speak to me no\\nmore. An interruption. The best way. The elder s proposal. Mehitible s\\nphotograph. A symbolical picture. Aunt Debby s return. Ashrael s\\nrevenge. Good news. Yes, Elinor, your father awaits his child. The\\nmystery solved. The prince in the fairy-tale. The clue eun to earth.\\nA Chinese Dummy.\\nA Farce in One Act, for Female Characters only.\\nBy MARIAN D. CAMPBELL.\\nAuthor of An Open Secret.\\nSpecially written for performance at Radcliffe College, Cambridge.\\nSix female characters. Scenery, an easy interior costumes modern and\\nbicycle. This very successful little piece has the slenderest of plots, but\\noffers a very unusual variety and strength in its character drawing. Its\\ndialogue and incidental humor are exceptionally good, and it was very\\nsuccessful in performance. Plays thirty to forty minutes.\\nPrice 15 Cents.\\nSent) postpaid, on receipt of price by\\nBAEEB, 5 HAMILTON PLACE, BOSTON, MASa", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "LATEST PLAY5.\\nThe Old Maids Convention.\\nAN ENTERTAINMENT IN ONE SCENE.\\nBy LAURA M. PARSONS.\\nAuthor of Jerusha Dow s Family Album, Thb District\\nSchool at Blueberry Corners, Etc.\\nOne male, twenty female characters and specialties. Costumes eccen-\\ntric; scenery unimportant; can be produced on a platform without any.\\nThis is an excellent version of a widely popular entertainment which has\\nlong existed in manuscript, but is now for the first time offered in print.\\nIt is practically for all female characters, since Prof. Pinkerton, its one\\nman, may be represented by a lady, if desired. Pinkerton s Electric\\nTransform(h)er is a marvelous invention, whatever the sex of its dis-\\ncoverer, and is capable of creating great amusement. This entertainment,\\nof which it is a feature, is brightly and humorously written, and moves\\nalong briskly to a laughable conclusion. Lots of good characters and\\nopportunity for specialties. A worthy successor to the popular Prof.\\nBaxter s Great Invention. Plays an hour and a half with specialties.\\nPrice, 25 Cents.\\nSYNOPSIS.\\nScene.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Old Maids Matrimonial Club. The Club in executive\\nsession. Quotations. An unpopular sentiment. The Secretary s report.\\nThe report of the Treasurer. Candy kisses. The Lookout Committee.\\nWidower Goodhope. A bachelor by the name of Rigby. I don t care\\nif he hasn t a dollar. A few suggestions toward the propagation of\\nmatrimony. The club in debate. A literary interlude. Prof. Pinkerton s\\nadvent. A scientific exposition. Testimonials. Before using your\\nTransform(h)er I was totally blind, and now I can see my finish. The\\ngreat invention at work. Blonde or brunette Old maids made new.\\nA. great success. A difficult case. Somewhat overdone. The machine\\ncan make no mistake. A hard problem. I want to be a man. The Pro-\\nfessor phazed but not daunted. Drink the stuff and pile in. An explosion\\nof laughter*\\nPOPPING BY PROXY.\\nA FARCE IN ONE ACT.\\nBy O. E. YOUNG.\\nTwo male, four female characters. Scenery easy, costumes rustic. This\\nis a very amusing, if somewhat athletic farce, suitable for the young and\\nrobust, and likely to be popular among people who rejoice in practical\\noking and high animal spirit s. It is distinctly not a drawing-room play,\\nut is full of good, broad, boisterous fun, and tells a very entertaining\\nstory. Plays forty-five minutes.\\nPrice, 15 Cents.\\nSent, postpaid, on receipt of price, by\\nBAKER, 5 HAMILTON PLAGE, BOSTON, MASS,", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "A NEW CANTATA FOR CHILDREN-\\nA DREAM of the FLOWERS\\nConsisting of Songs, Choruses, Recitations,\\nDialogues, Etc.\\nBy NELLIE E. CASE.\\nFor fourteen little girls, one little boy and chorus. Costumes fanciful\\nbut easily gotten up. No scenery needed, though it can be employed to\\nadvantage. This cantata primarily celebrates May Day, introducing a\\nMay-pole Dance,* but it is good and not unsuitable for performance at\\nany season. It is published complete with music, pretty and very easy.\\nThis piece is the work of an experienced teacher, familiar with the needs\\nand limitations of children, and is offered with confidence.\\nPrice 85 Cents.\\nA NEW EDITION.\\nBALLADS IN BLACK.\\nA Series of Readings to be Produced as Shadow\\nPantomimes.\\nWith full directions for representation. Illustrated with fifty full-\\npage drawings in silhouette, by J. F. Goodrich.\\nCONTENTS:\\nIn Pawn. A Shadow Pantomime in Four Acts and a Prologue; eight\\nillustrations.\\nDrink. A Temperance Shadow Pantomime; eight illustrations.\\nOrpheus, the Organ-grinder. A Musical Shadow Pantomime; six\\nillustrations.\\nAnonymous. A Nameless Narrative; six illustration*.\\nDrigos and his Double. A Pantomime Paradox; eight illustration*.\\nCinderella. A new version of an old story; eight illustrations.\\nPrice, paper covers 50 Cents.\\nWe have a United number of these pantomimes, published separately,\\nwhich we can furnish at 15 cents per copy until the edition is exhausted.\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00aclNDE|U3LLAr $00 \u00c2\u00a3fM\u00c2\u00bb| fT^ ?4 PS M^ PP *?P]?lif$ UpHP\\ncs\u00c2\u00bbj?fc boo\u00c2\u00a3.", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "NEW PLAYS.\\nDOWN EAST\\nA Comedy-Drama in Four Acts.\\nBy JUSTIN ADAMS.\\nAuthor of T riss, At the Picket Line, Etc.\\nSeven male, three female characters. Costumes rustic scenery varied,\\nbut not difficult. An excellent piece, full of action and interest, of the\\ngeneral character of Joshua Whitcomb and Old Jed Prouty. Plenty\\nof hay-seed comedy character, and plays briskly and to plenty of\\nlaughter. Has been successful in repertoire for several seasons, and for\\ntwo years with amateurs as a manuscript play. Now free to amateurs of\\nall royalties. Plays a full evening.\\nPrice 25 Cents.\\nSYNOPSIS:\\nACT I.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The country post-office. Swapstown gossip. After the mail.\\nZeke s mare. A bicycle accident. A dog-muzzle for Deacon Perkins.\\nDo you want your whiskers to go inside or hang through? Myra s\\nlover. A peck o flour. Charley s uncle. A fortune in sight. The un-\\nsealed letter. The grocery bill. There s trickery here!\\nACT II.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The old homestead. Hard wood. A nice piece ob water-\\nmillion. A game for $50,000 stakes. The stolen letter. Some one knows\\nmy secret. A languid lover. The naked truth. A human snake. The\\nstraight tip. A golden legacy. Turning the tables. The new will.\\nPossession is nine points of the law.\\nACT III.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The ruined mill. Hiding the treasure. An interview.\\nTurning the screws. The biter bit. Third hand high. The steel trap.\\nA true heroine. Wash and the ghost. Of two evils choose neither.\\nGuilty or not guilty. The trial. A neat turn. I ve caught the thieving\\nrat, and there he is.\\nACT I V.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Palmer House, Chicago. A secret mission. A fly waiter.\\nI could change it if it was a six-dollar bill. The ball rolling. The de-\\nserted wife. The mask off. A champion to the rescue. Don t shoot\\nmy hands are up. Zeke and the elephant The coochee-coochee girls.\\nThe divorce. The Ferris wheel. Charley pays his Bets. A rich man\\nnow. Into the trap. The arrest. No, Bets, for a lifetime, as they do\\nDown East.\\nSauce for the Goose.\\nA Farce in One Act.\\nBy MARGARET VERE F. LIVINGSTON.\\nThree male, one female character. A high-class farce full of refined\\nfun, turning upon hypnotism. Plays briskly in about twenty minutes.\\nParticularly suitable for parlor performance.\\nSen/, postpaid, on receipt of prite, by\\nAP5B, 5 H4TOTON P^ACB, BOSTON, W4S", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "NEW PLAYS,\\nPOVERTY FLATS.\\nA Play of Western Life in Three Acts.\\nBy BERNARD FRANCIS MOORE.\\nAuthor ol The Rough Rider, The Wrecker s Daughter, Etc.\\nNine male, two female characters. Scenery easy; costumes rough fron-\\ntier and modern. A very easy and effective border drama, suitable for\\nyounger amateurs, as it has plenty of strongly marked characters, and\\nlots of action. Not a soubrette play of the usual Western type. Irish\\nand Chinese low comedy, and Irishwoman very strong. Leading and\\nheavy parts very effective. Strongly recommended to the class for\\nwhom it was written. Plays an hour and three quarters.\\nPrice 15 Cents.\\nSYNOPSIS:\\nACT I.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Rising Sun. Evening. The secret of the mine. The\\nsheriff s daughter. The broken knife. Jim s story. A frontier romance.\\nDan and the judge. A Chinaman in love. The Ilish Queen. A game of\\ncards. Four aces. Over the liver, Duffy. A bad man. Rat soup. The\\nmurder. The accusation. The sheriff of Poverty Flats.\\nACT II.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The jail. Morning. An Irish deputy. A terrible night.\\nThe interview. A base revenge. The mystery of the knife. A wife for a\\nlife. I refuse. The lynching party. An Irish episode. In the name\\nof the law. The judge holds court. Circumstantial evidence. The\\nChinese witness. The murderer found. The word of a heathen. The\\nproof. On the other foot. Prisoner, you are discharged.\\nACT III.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Rising Sun. Night. The hold up. A determined\\nman. The escaped prisoner. The pursuit. China vs. Ireland. Ilishman\\nhim big bluff. The story of Poverty Flats. The Union mine. Hank s\\ndiplomacy. Biddy and the judge. Thrown out of court. The outlaw.\\nAt bay. Win Lung to the rescue. The death of Randall. The queen of\\nthe camp. An I ll be bestee man.\\nThe Baby.\\nA Comedietta in One Act.\\nBy HARRY O. OSGOOD.\\nThree male, two female characters. Scenery, an easy interior; cos-\\ntumes modern. A very bright and amusing little comedy of the more re-\\nfined sort. The absent-minded Professor and his Henglish servant\\nare very effective, and The Baby literally out of sight Plays half an\\nhour.\\nPrice 15 Cents.\\nSent, postpaid, on receipt of prue, by\\nBAKER, 5 HAMILTON PLACE, BOSTON, WASS,", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\n/ft\\nf\\n\\\\l/\\nSI/\\nSi/\\nSI/\\nSi/\\nSI/\\nSi/\\nSI/\\nsi/\\nSI/\\n1\\nSI/\\nTHE MAGISTRATE. I f Farce in Three Aets B y Arthur w.\\nnxb ivx-n-VJio i JV^x 1 i^* I i\u00c2\u00bb inkko Twelve male,: four female char-\\nacters. Costumes, modern scenery, all\\ninterior. The merits of this excellent and amusing piece, one of the most popu-\\nlar of its author s plays, are well attested hy long and repeated runs in the\\nprincipal American theatres. It is of the highest class of dramatic writing, and\\nis uproariously tunny, and at the same time unexceptionable in tone. Its entire\\nsuitability for amateur performance has been shown by hundreds of such pro-\\nductions from manuscript during the past three years. Plays two hours and\\na half. (1892.)\\nTHE NOTORIOUS\\nMRS. EBBSMITH*\\nA Drama in Four Acts. By Arthur W.\\nPlNERO. Eight male and five female charac-\\nters; scenery, all interiors. This is a prob-\\nlem play continuing the series to which The\\nProfligate and The.Second ]\\\\I rs. Tanqueray\\n1 while strongly dramatic, and intensely interesting is not suited for\\njrformance. It is recommended for Reading Clubs. (1895.)\\nTHE PROFLIGATE. I\\ncost nines, modern-. This is a piece of\\nmovement, and tragic in its even*\\ntear performance. (,189 J.)\\nTHE SCP^A711STRES S\\nA Play in Four Acts. By Arthur W. Pine-\\nro. Seven male and five female characters.\\nScenery, three int rather elaborate;\\nrion- -e -Miiy c i, aina tic in\\nTfVy^d for ama-\\n^FavceinThree^ a e ;,evc.\\nW ^rScte^s Costume^\\ned.. P* t season rfden\\nornery, three interiors, easn.v\\nWas played by Miss Rosina Vokes during __. _\\nsuccess! Its plot is amusing, its action rapid andTuSiv\\nlie brilliant, and its scheme of character especially rich in\\ntvpes. The Hon. Vere Queckett and Peggy are especially\\nn all respects suitable for amateurs. (1894.)\\nTHE SECOND\\nMRS* TANQUERAY,\\nof\\nA Play in Four Acts. By Arthur W.\\nPinero. Eight male and five female char-\\nacters. Costumes, modern scenery, three\\ninteriors. This well-known and powerful\\nplay is not well suited for amateur pf\\nformance Tt is offered to Mr. Pinero s admirers among the reading public in\\nanswer to the demand which its wide discussion as an acted P y has created.\\n/tgo4 Also in Cloth, $1.00.\\nSWEET LAVENDER. I ^ZliV n ^l.rn^JLuT e Zi\\ncharacters. Scene, a single interior, the\\nsame for all three acts costumes, modern and fashionable. This well known\\nand popular piece is admirably suited to amateur players, by whom it has been\\noften given during the last few years. Its story is strongly sympathetic, and its\\ncomedy interest abundant and strong. (1893.)\\nA Comedy in Four Acts. By Arthur W. Ptkero. Six\\nmale and seven female characters. Scene, a single ele-\\ngant interior costumes, modern and fashionahle. An\\nentertaining piece, of strong dramatic interest and admirable satirical humor.\\n(1892.)\\nA Comedy in Three Acts. By Arthttr\\nW. Pinero. Eight male and eight female\\ncharacters. Costumes, modern scenery,\\ntwo interiors, not difficult. This very amusing comedy was a popular feature of\\nthe repertoire of Mr. and Mrs. Kendal in this country. It presents a plot or\\nstrong dramatic interest, and its incidental satire of Woman s Rights em-\\nploys some admirably humorous characters, and inspires many very clever Jines.\\nIts leading characters are unusually even in strength and prominence, wincn\\nTHE TIMES, j\\nTHE WEAKER SEX.\\nIts leading characters are unusually e\\nmakes it a very satisfactory piece for amateurs.\\nSI/\\nw\\nsi/\\nsi/\\ns^\\nsr/\\nsi/\\nsi/\\nsi/\\nI\\nA", "height": "3683", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "as\\n-m -IT- -j^ ~4^- 4^-\\nNEW OPERETTAS FOR CHILDREN.\\nm\\nfEDITH S DREAM.\\nSn \u00c2\u00a9peretta far Cjjttoren.\\nfjS Words fay MARGARET FEZANDIE and EDGAR MORETTE.\\n/is\\nMusic by EUGENE FEZANDIE, Jr.\\nEleven characters, girls and boys, or all girls, as preferred\\ntional for chorus. Scenery unnecessary costume f^,\\nnuiiixi iur culm us. octsueiy ui\\neasily arranged at home. This\\niv,^^ ten or more addi-\\npretty and fanciful, but\\ninted complete with\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ongly recom\\ny unnecessary costumes, pretty\\nnciiigcu at uuiiic. This admirable little piece is prir\\nmusic. It is very tuneful and gracefully imagined, and is strongly reco mniended\\nfor private theatrical* or for schools. It.is particularly well suited for the latter\\nuse, as it deals w v ally with the question of youthful study, inculcating,\\nhowever, an ex a imsic\\noellent mt \u00c2\u00abti.\\nPrice\\ni\\nf (IQD OPERASSEVENTlDh.*\\nA Collection of Short and Simple Musical\\nEntertainments for Children.\\nBy MRS. G. N. BORDMAN.\\nThis collection provides a simple f^*^g%\u00c2\u00a3g^W^\\nsong, a quaint musical paiiommi a pretty s u th 1UB C an d fuit instrucr\\nhumorous recitations for children^\\nspecialty m-\u00c2\u00ab .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i\u00c2\u00ab\\n.__ -ire easily learned \\\\i#\\nwith tne tastes aim n\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bbi.*\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 5 1 i e ToVvoices in unison. The collection .1.\\nIndsung, and ^^ej^^aw^tten ^vmces^ pract i ca bUity.\u00e2\u0080\u009emither\\nKasSSrSTI all the choruses vo^ p Ability.\\nicitv and periect mat;nvauu.i-j.\\nis strongly refeommenaeu iur i\u00c2\u00ab ^^J? requirements that cannot be met\\n\u00c2\u00abMcrf nor scenery is demanded, noi any otuci *^h t v\u00c2\u00abst.rv. and the\\nwitlout trouble by the/equipment oi ri\\nNeither VM\\n\u00c2\u00bbv other requirements umi iwi\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00abv VT\\nPrice\\n50 cents.\\nCONTENTS.\\nA Glimpse of the Brownies. A\\nA MusTc?l Sketch for Children. Any\\nnumber of boys.\\nMarket Bay. An Operetta for Young\\nPeople Seven speaking parts and\\nchorus.\\nOneen Flora s Bay Bream. An\\nQU OyJreUa for Children. Six speak-\\ning parts and chorus.\\nboys and girls.\\nSix tittle Grandmas. A Musical\\nPantomime for very Little Children.\\nSix very little girls.\\nJimmy Crow. A Kecitation for a\\nLittle Girl.\\nA House i\\nt\\nW\\ntion for i\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\ne\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\u00c2\u00bb^", "height": "3714", "width": "2266", "jp2-path": "advertisinggirls00sanf_0028.jp2"}}