S 635 Z9 18997 Jopy 1 AS YE SEW -BY- DOROTHY CRICHTON /ie?^% W, # % ~ 4rf - «fl PRICE 15 CENTS Eldridge Entertainment House Franklin, Ohio 2£5 Denver, Colo. 944 So. Lonn Stre«t USE THESE ON ANY SCHOOL PROGRAM TUNEFUL OPENING AND CLOSING SONGS PRICE 35 CENTS EACH I TouVe Welcome If You Keep Right Still. If We Were You and You Were Us. We'll Try to Make You Come Again. It's Verj Clear Your Welcome Here. Hello, Everybody — Glad to See You Here. With a Tear In One Eye, We Will . Tell You Goodbye. It's Time to Tell You All Goodbye. THESE WILL MAKE YOUR WHOLE ENTERTAINMENT EVEN MORE SUCCESSFUL EDRIDGE ENTERTAINMENT HOUSE FRANiaiN, OHIO also 944 S. Logan, DENVER, COLO. AS YE SEW A "Talking Doll" Missionary Play BY DOROTHY CRICHTON / Copyrisht 1921 . Eldridge Entertainmant Houae, ^ rUBUSHED BY ELDRIDGE ENTERTAINMENT HOUSE, Franklin, Ohio Denver, Colo. DEC 19 192! ^S^^J,^^^ ^oS- CHARACTERS AND COSTUMES MRS. VAN UPTON— In kimona; hair down. MELISSA— The athletic doll; middy su^t. GWENDOLYN— Over-dressed. "Fussy*' white silk dress, shoes, etc. ANNABEL — Neat, plain gingham dress. MICHEI^French doll; pretty, fluffy dress. TOM— Uniform of U. S. Soldier. DORIS — Dress of some soft dark silk BABY — Baby's dress and cap. MAMMY — The nurse; black face, turban, apron, etc. BEULAH — Pui-ple hat, pink dress, as unbecomingly made as possible. LIZZY — Clothes very carelessly made; waist gapes in back, lace ripping from skirts. ESTELLE — Dainty, hand-embroidered dress. CID 59420 <^^ TMP92-008972 ^)^% I AS YE SEW (The dolls that have been dressed for the mission- ary box discuss the motives of their makers. They are represented by girls, either large or small.) Scene — A living room. The dolls that have been dressed for the missionary box are scattered about in various attitudes. A clock strikes tioelve and they all be- gin to stir. Melissa — (sitting up) Mercy, folks, do you ever in- tend to break this foolish silence tonight? The house has been asleep for hours. For goodness sake, Gwendo- lyn! If you stare at me much longer, I'll be bound to poke those shiny black eyes of yours back in your head completely. Gtvendolyn — Calm yourself, Melissa. You are al- ways so abrupt and masculine — don't you knov/ it is scarcely becoming? What's the matter with you, Anna- bel? Annabel — (groaning) I've got a pain in my saw- dust. Soldier Tom — (jumping up) Hurrah, folks! now's the time for a jolly little chat. I sure do get stiff lying so motionless all the time. If those human beings would kindly keep out of our way for a while, we might have a little fun. Melissa — Fun! Around those people? Hardly. They don't know hov/ to have fun, even among them- selves. Wake the baby, Gwen, and step on Michel, Tom. Michel— Ouch ! -4s Ye Sew Givendolyn — Thomas! Now, see what you have done, you careless wretch. My lovely white slippers are all soiled, and they are kid, and can never be cleaned, either. Tom — Sorry, my dear lady, but kindly keep your feet out of my way in the future. Anyhow, they are not much account if they iire ruined so easily. How long do you expect them to last among those little heathens in the mission school where you are going? Doris — Oh, don't blame that on Gwendolyn, Thom- as. She can't help it, you know. It's only that Mrs. Van Upton is just so — Melissa — Exactly. You hit it on the head that time. That's precisely what Mrs. Van Upton is^ — just so. Of all the pride and conceit Can you imagine anyone with a smattering of honest-to-goodness brains, rigging up a doll like Gwen, there? Just look at her — white silk from head to foot. White! — and silk, mind you. Given — It'll never wash. Baby — Mama ! Mammy — Ma li'l' lamb! He say neber yo' min'. Miss Gwendolyn, honey, 'cause 'tain't yo' fault if de lady dat done dress yo' up for de sassiety am so stuckupety she ain't got no jedgment. Jes' look at all dat foolishness and flub-dub all gwine to a li'l' bit of a heathen chile what's jes' a-hongerin* for a doll baby to love up clost in her arms, and den how long's dat white sating dress gwine to be white, will you tell me dat, folkses? Beulah — ^Yes, but will you all take a look at this get-up of mine. Gwen's hasn't a patch on mine, as far as inappropriateness is concerned. Will you look as this purple velvet bonnet? Tom — Isn't it enough to turn a flamingo seasick, just to look at it? Lizzy — It's a fright, and the worst of it is, Mrs. Duke certainly has much better taste„ Catch her wear- ing a purple velvet hat with such a looking pink lawn dress. It's not that she doesn't know better; it's just that she is so frightfully stingy. As Ye Sew Michel — I didn't know she was such a miser. Beulah — Well, she is. She ripped a collar off an old coat to make this creation on top of my curls, and the dress is made out of a scrap of lawn that she dug up out of her rag bag, because she said she did hate to buy new goods for just those little heathens, who wouldn't know any better, anyway. Estelle — I should think she would hate to have even those same little heathen judge her by that outfit. Gra- cious ! Wouldn't it be awful if they would believe all the American people dressed like that? Doris — But, my dear, you can scarcely criticize Mrs. Duke for economizing in these hard times, can you? Why, this very dress I have on is made of a bit of little Mrs. Kane's wedding dress. She hated mightily to cut into it, too, but she couldn't afford to buy anything else, and she did want me to be prettily dressed for "those dear little dark sisters," as she called them. Baby — Mama ! Mammy — Bress his li'l' heart! He say dey's sho' some difference 'tween economizin' for the good of some- budy else, and economizin' for to keep yo' own pocket- book full up of seventeen centses for de pitcher shows. Doris — She loved that little dress of her's too. It was the one pretty thing she ever had that was just hers. She's had a hard life, has Mrs. Kane, The Kane family is hardly a success, j^ou know. Estelle — And yet, that is a very pretty frock you have on, Doris, and it is so carefully made, too. To7n — I wonder if her little brown sisters can't see the love and the sacrifice in that little dress. I can. Mammy — Look at this honey-bird's liT closes, and you'll see some mo' lub an' sackerficin'. Ain't dat sweet li'l' dress an* bunnit an' li'l' unercloses jes* lak human baby's — jes* lak own li'l' baby? Lizzy — Why, Mammy, I didn't know Mrs. Sexton had a baby. I thought — As Ye Sew Mamm.y — She ain't got none, now, honey chile. Hit's a li'P angel baby, now, a li'P angel baby. (Sings. "Mighty lak' a Rose.") Melissa — Oh, how could she? How could she dress a baby doll, then? Oh, she's fine, she's splendid, but how could she? Doris — She could, dear, because when she put it down among the others I saw her, and I heard her whis- per, **Love your little play baby, little brown girl. I loved to make it for you, as I'd hoped to make such wee clothes for my own baby's dollies." Estelle — What I can't figure out is, how could any- one have the nerve to place beside that lovely baby doll, a fright like Lizzy, there. Now, Lizzy, don't get offended, you know yourself it's awful. Of course, you look well enough, but — ■ Mammy — Honey, you's jes' nachelly a-gittin' di- vo'ced from yo' closes. I'se skeered dat you'll be sca'sely kivered by de time dat li'l' heathen gal gits yo'all. Dem clo's ain't no finished masterpiece, by no means ; dey's jes' a sort~a sketch. To?}i — You are losing part of the lace off your dress right novv^. Michel — Betty Ames made that, and she said it was good enough for the heathens, and she didn't care, any- how. Lizzy — ^Yes, and I saw John Maynard looking at her pretty seriously v/hen he heard her say that; and he came over to the table and picked me up and examined my dress. Melissa — Yes, and he left without saying more to Betty, and he looked pretty grim around the m.outh. Tomi — She might as well say: ''Goodbye, Johnny." Estelle — At that, he's wise, isn't he? Beulah — Never mind, Lizzy. Thomas, but you cer- tainly take my eye in that uniform. What fair society member is responsible for that masterpiece, anyway? As Ye Sew Tom — Mrs. Jenkins. Estelle — How could she, when her own only boy died in that hospital in France? Why, I should think she could hardly bear to. It seems almost a sacrilege to dress a doll so. Michel — I heard Mrs. Van Upton say something like that to her yesterday, and what do you think she answered ? Tom — I heard her. She said: ''Why, my dear lady, I'm proud of the uniform my son wore, so proud of it I feel that I want to honor his loyal love far it by letting even those little far-away heathen girls see it and learn to recognize it, and to love it. (Clock strikes one.) Melissa — There! One o'clock, already! How time does fly when we get together for a talk. It is so tire- some lying on the table, or sitting stiffly against the wall, with our legs straight out in front of us, and star- ing so unblinkingly into space. Estelle, are you mussing that frock? It's such a beauty, all hand embroidered that way, that it would be a shame to spoil it. Estelle — It washes. With all her painstaking work on it, Mrs. Thorne had the good sense to make it out of washable material. Gwen — Poor little mother soul. She loves to dress a doll for other folks' children. She always wanted one of her own. Baby — Mama ! Mammy — Li'l' lamb. He say lak dat dar ii'l' bit of flub-dub po'try Mrs. Van Upton am always a-quotin' from a fellow what she cognomens Burns, ef we alls could jes' see our own selfs jes' lak other folkses sees us, but, law sakes — Doris — As is the gift, so is the giver. Michel — Somebody's coming. Quick! Into your nlaces. 8 As Ye Sew (Enter Mrs. Van Upton,) Mrs, Van Upton— Who's there? Who's there? I say, who's there? {Pauses to listen,) That's funny. I was sure I heard something. Oh, well I guess it was nothing. Or, maybe it was a mouse. Mercy! and I haven't any shoes on. WHOO-EE ! Plays for Amateurs BY SEYMOUR S. TIBBALS Mr. Tibbals has won a wide reputation as the writer oi' plays for amateurs that have dramatic action, bright dialog and clean and wholesome plots. 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