A CHRISTMAS IN DREAMLAND
As the curtain ascends, HELEN is discovered standing on a chair stringing popcorn on a Christmas tree.
HELEN: I'm glad I'm the oldest of the children, for none of the others are allowed to come in here, and it's such fun to be big and have some---What was it mamma called it? Oh, yes --- re-spon-si-bil-i-ty. Whew! That's a big word. Mamma said: ''Helen, you have great responsibility, for I appoint you the sentinel to guard the tree.'' There, that's done. [She gets down from the chair and looks admiringly at the tree.] It's so very beau-ti-ful. [She walks around the tree adjusting a toy or an ornament here and there.] There, I guess it couldn't possibly be any prettier. Now I must be the sentinel, as mamma told me to be. [Marches up and down the room, soldier fashion.]
1 [First verse of ''Holy Night'' or any appropriate Christmas song is heard sung outside. This may be sung by two or several voices. HELEN goes to the window and looks out; stands listening.]
HELEN: I wish those people wouldn't sing. It makes me so sleepy to hear music at night. [She leaves the window, goes to the mantel, and looks at the clock.] Well, anyway, it's past my bedtime, so I'm not to blame if I am too sleepy to be a real sentinel.
[Another verse of song is sung.]
____ 1 See ''Child's Music Course: Second Reader.''
An edition of A Christmas in Dreamland
(1915)
A Christmas in Dreamland
by Katherine Wallace Davis
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This is a 1915, post WWI Christmas Play, I imagine, was used as a fund raiser for local school, community centre or church.
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This is a children's play with MANY children, each of whom portrays the part of their favourite Fairy Tale character.
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Character examples: Mother Goose, Little Boy Blue, Little Bo-Peep, Jack & Jill, Humpty Dumpty, etc. .... as well as Robinson Crusoe, Little Girl and her Mother, Mother of My Son John, ''And any others desired.''
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Author also discusses the COSTUMES which can be used: ''Any quaint costumes may be used, or they may be taken from designs in Mother Goose.''
- Author also states that: ''Much of the success of this entertainment will depend upon the abandon with which the children enter into the spirit of the occasion. Drill them to be full of pranks, but do not let their antics be too pronounced so as to attract the attention of the audience from the speaker.''
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1915, Play, Stage Play, Children's Play, Fantasy Play, Christmas, Music, Mother Goose, Mother Goose CharactersShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Page 5,
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"Page 5 displays to the administrator of the play, as well as to the viewing audience, the form in which the play will proceed. The user of this entertainment booklet (as it is named) is coached on every page, as to how each scene will be played and what is needed to successfully carry off this musical. I am unsure as to what the author means by: 1 See ''Child's Music Course: Second Reader,'' as nothing is mentioned in booklet, as to meaning of sentence."
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