The Dramatic Publishing Company Hageman's Make-Up Book By MAURICE HAGEMAN Price, 25 cents The ii^ortance of an effective make-up is becoming: more appar= ent to the professional actor every year, but hitherto there na-= v»o«» no book on the subject describing the modern methods and at th< same time covering all branches of the art. This want has now been filled. Mr. Hageman has had an experience of twenty years as actor and stage-manager, and his well-known literary ability has enabled him to put the knowledge so gained into shape to be of use to others. 1 he book is an encyclopedia of the art of making up. Every branch of the subject is exhaustively treated, and few ques- tions can be asked by professional or amateur that cannot be an- swered by this admirable hand-book. It is not only the best make- up book ever published, but it is not likely to be superseded by any other. It is absolutely indispensable to every ambitious actor. CONTENTS Chapter I. Genera! Remarks. Chapter II. Grease-Paints, their origin, components and use. Chapter III. The Make-up Box. Grease-Paints, Mirrors, Face Powder and Puff, Exora Cream, Rouge. Liquid Color, Grenadine, Blue for the Eyelids, Brilliantine for the Hair, Nose Putty, Wig Paste, Mascaro, Crape Hair, Spirit Gum, Scissors, Artists' Stomps, Cold Cream, Cocoa Butter, Recipes for Cold Cream. Chapter IV. Preliminaries before Making up; the Straight Make* up and how to remove it. Chapter V. Remarks to Ladies. Liquid Creams, Rouge, Lips, Eyebrows, Eyelashes, Character Roles, Jewelry, Removing Make-up. Chapter VI. Juveniles. Straight Juvenile Make-up, Society Men, Young Men in 111 Health, with Red Wigs, Rococo Make-up, Hands, Wrists, Cheeks, etc. Chapter VII. Adults, Middle Aged and Old Men. Ordinary Type of Manhood, Lining Colors, Wrinkles, Rouge, Sickly and Healthy Old Age, Ruddy Complexions. Chapter VIII. Comedy and Character Make-ups. Comedy Ef- fects, Wigs. Beards, Eyebrows, Noses, Lips, Pallor of Death. Chapter IX. The Human Features. The Mouth and Lips, the Eyes and Eyelids, the Nose, the Chin, the Ear, the Teeth. Chapter X. Other Exposed Parts of the Human Anatomy. Chapter XI. Wigs, Beards, Moustaches, and Eyebrows. Choosing a Wig, Powdering the Hair, Dimensions for Wigs, Wig Bands, Bala Wigs, Ladies' Wigs, Beards on Wire, on Gauze, Crape Hair, Wool, Beards for Tramps, Moustaches, Eyebrows. Chapter XII. Distinctive and Traditional Characteristics. North American Indians, New England Farmers, Hoosiers, Southerners, Politicians, Cowboys, Minors, Quakers, Tramps, Creoles, Mulattoes, Quadroons, Octoroons, Negroes, Soldiers during War, Soldiers dur- ing Peace, Scouts, Pathfinders, Puritans, Early Dutch Settlers- Englishmen, Scotchmen, Irishmen, Frenchmen, Italians, Spaniards* Portuguese, South Americans, Scandinavians, Germans, Hollander* Hungarians, Gipsies, Russians, Turks, Arabs* Moors, Caffirs, Aby» sinians, Hindoos, Malays, Chinese, Japanese,; Clowns and Statuary Hebrews, Drunkards, Lunatics, Idiots, Migj^ps, Rogues. Address Orders to THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO. ILLINOIS BOY'S ESSAY ON BOYS MONOLOGUE FOR A MAN OR WOMAN By LILLIAN DAVIDSON Copyright 1916 By The Dramatic Publishing Company CHICAGO THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY <■■* i *§? DEC 26 19»6 ©CVD 45738 \^ i . BOY'S ESSAY ON BOYS Monologue for Male or Female, by Lillian Davidson. [This goes best when read as an essay, in costume; let voice fall where word is repeated.] Firstly, boys is boys, only they don't think so, they thinks they is men, I don't tho. I thought so oncet an' one day I said to Jim Crow, Jim's as big as, as, oh, Jim's awful big, an' I sez to Jim, sez I, I kin kick you an' I ain't never thought I was a man since. Secondly boys has one 'bed, one nose, two eyes, two ears, two arms, eight fingers, two thumbs, two legs, ten toes, only Hank he cut his big toe off, he did wif a ax, he did, so he ain't got but nine he ain't, he ain't. Teacher is the smartest woman in the world she is, she is, so smart she never was married a tol, a tol, an' that's lots smarter an' most wimmin. Ellie Elkin's ma's been married three times an' I was jis wonderin' if she wasn't most nearly a fool. I'm goin' to ax my teacher how many times marry in' it takes to make a woman a fool, a fool. Thirdly most boys won't never steal nothin', they may say some words they didn't hear at Sunday School, an' they tell their ma's that they never did nothin' when they did, but stealin', no siree, sir-ee. Why if boys saw a whole hundred .dollars right in the road in front of them they wouldn't' touch it, if somebody was lookin' but jis let a boy see a watermelon on the other side of a ten foot barb wire fence an' he'll have that melon if he tears every blamed rag offen his back an' 3 4 BOY'S ESSAY ON BOYS scratches his one hed, one nose, two eyes, two ears, eight fingers, two thumbs, two legs, ten toes, only Hank. An' they'll take every darned — I don't think that's swearin' canse I heard Sammy say that at Sunday School, when him an' me, I mean me an' him, went out to get a drink of water so we wouldn't hear Deacon Jones' long prayer, an' he bit his tongue when he was makin' faces at Sally Todd, Sally Todd. Where was I at ? Oh yes, I was in the melon patch, I mean the other boys is an' they take every darned one- they can get over that ten foot barb wire fence, an' if the bull dog don't come too soon or the man with the gun, why nen they jis busts every melon they can't get over an' eats em' they do, they do. An' nen we, I mean they was so full at they jis can't git over that fence, they can't but by and by we, I mean they, heard a bull dog a barkin' an' nen we, I mean they can climb over that fence you bet, you bet. But they got caught in the barbs and the bull dog was quicker an' we, I mean they was an' atween him an' the barb wire fence we, I mean they had so little clothes left we had to walk behind each other an' go in by the wood shed, wood shed. Fourthly, boys is, is boys. Leastwise I've heard pa say more'n a billion times at "boys will be boys." I know it was a billion cause teacher says nobody can't never count a billion an' teacher is the smartest woman, woman. Pa always said "Boys will be boys" like he felt glad of it but ma alius sighed like she felt awful but couldn't help it. I s'pose she wanted us to be girls, leastwise she made Tom an' me, I mean me an' Tom wear dresses jist as long as ever she could. No, I don't think that's swearin' 'cause I heard ma say that an' I never heard her sware but oncet — an' at Avas when Pa axed her if she wanted lobster for supper an' she said no, if all lobsters chawed tobacco like he did she didn't want none to eat, to eat. Let's see where was I at? Oh yes, about Pa savin' "boys will be boys," but Tom an' me, I mean me an' Tom, Tom's my brother an' he's a boy. We jis couldn't BOY'S ESSAY ON BOYS 5 be boys with those old dresses on so I thot pa was wrong, was wrong-. Well I s'pose I'd better hnrry 'cause teacher said to make our essays short, an' teacher's the smartest woman in the world. I don't see why God didn't make such a smart woman a boy so I'll jist start on lastly. Lastly, I've told everything there is about boys, 'ceptin' one thing an' I don't like to tell that, cause I just told you 'at Tom an' me, I mean me an' Tom, was boys. I'm sorry I told you but here goes, here goes. Some boys is mean, ist downright mean, an' the bigger they get the meaner they is. Why I saw a great big boy, I did, ist tooked a teenty weenty boy that was as good as he could be an' the big boy ist grabbed him by his hair an' dragged him a whole block, he did, an' the little boy he didn 't yell, 'at is he didn 't yell much, least- wise not so as you could notice it when the big boy was yellin' like a wild Indian 'at he was goin' to scalp the little boy, little boy. An' the little boy thot he was scalpen, he did. Now the big boy ist frowed the little boy rite in the gutter he did, an' the gutter was wet it was, an' dirty an' ist awful it was, an' the big boy he ist laffed he did an' held up the little boy's hair when he's scalped him, he did, an' the little boy's one head, two ears, one nose, two eyes, two arms, eight fingers, two thumbs, two legs, ten toes, w r as so full of water an' mud an' slime at he didn't care if he was scalped, he didn't, an' the big boy come real close and the little boy saw it was only his curls 'at the big boy cut off, an' he was glad he wasn't scalped. But all boys is not mean 'cause the little boy was the bestest boy I 'ever knew 'cause that little boy was me, was me. But mostest all boys is mean 'ceptin' brother an' me an' sometimes brother is a little mean, little mean. MERCHANT OF VENICE UP-TO-DATE Farce Comedy in Five Acts By WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Slightly revised and modernized by C. S. Miner, J. H. Emery, R. A. Moore and H. J. 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Address orders to THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Dumont's Minstrel Joke Book Price, 25 cents A Collection of jokes arranged for End-Men, both professional and amateur. Never before collected and published in a clear manner and with bright dialogue for End-Men and Interlocutor. They form a book of the newest, most humorous and quaintest matter ever arranger!. Any reader may, with assured success, deliver them to any assemblages before whom he may appear. Mr. Dumont himself says: "This collection of jokes and dia- logues is the careful gathering of years — and only the best and 'sure laugh' producers are incorporated in this book." PARTIAL CONTENTS Arithmetic of Love, 'Ask a Policeman." All about Novels, At Nia- gara Falls, 'A. P. A." and Bricks, Advantages of Education, All Sorts, Army and its Soldiers. 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Our Brothers, Old Cider Barrel, Origin of Songs, Opinion on Man and Woman, Gratitude, Hotel Regulations, Hold your Head Up, How is Business, How Different Girls Kiss, Hash for the Navy, "Has not Caught Me Yet," Irish Monologue, It Runs in the Family, "If a River were between all Men and Women," Jumping Frog, Kissing, Kiss Sociable, Keep off the Grass, Kissing in the Tunnel, Lawyer and Doctor, Lost Umbrella, Liquor Assists Nature, Learning the Bike, Love and Matrimony, Law in Alaska, Shoemaker's Daughter, Singing at the Party, Storm at Sea, Spot- ted Dog, Swallowed an Egg, Second Time on Earth. Signs, Sorry he didn't Take it Cold. Progress. Parson's Sermon on Crap Shoot- ing, Poultry and Fruit, Power of Language. Perhaps I Will and Perhaps I Won't, Peculiarities of Speech, Pumpkin Pie. Patriotic Alphabet, Queer Advertisements. 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ILLINOIS Uncle Rube An Original Homestead Play in Four Actt By CHARLES TOWNSEND The Finest Rural Drama Ever Published Price, 25 cents CHARACTERS RUBEN RODNEY (Uncle Rube), Justice of the Peace, School Trustee, and a master hand at "swappin' hosses". .. .Character lead SIMON SMARLEY, a smooth and cunning old villain Character heavy MARK, his son. a promising young rascal Straight heavy GORDON GRAY, a popular young artist Juvenile lead UPSON ASTERBILT, an up-to-date New York dude Character comedy IKE, the hired man. "I want ter know!" Eccentric BUB GREEN, a comical young rustic Low comedy BILL TAPPAN, a country constable Comedy MILLICENT LEE. "the pretty school teacher" Juvenile lady MRS. MARTHA BUNN, a charming widow. .. .Character comedv TAGGS, a waif from New York Soubrette Time — Mid Autumn. Place — Vermont. Time of playing — Two hours and a quarter. SYNOPSIS ACT I. The Old Homestead. Uncle Rube arrives. ACT II. The Constable's office. The plot to ruin Uncle Rube. ACT III. Evening at the old farm. Uncle Rube is arrested. ACT IV. The Constable's office again. The old farmer wins! This play was v/ritten by one of the most popular of American dramatists, whose works have sold by the hundreds of thousands. One of the best plays of its class ever written. Splendid characters. Powerful climaxes. Bright wit. Merry humor. Very easy to pro- duce. Requires only three scene's. No shifts of scenery during any act. Costumes all modern. No difficult properties required. THE AUTHOR'S OPINION) MR. TOWNSEND says of this drama: "I consider that 'Uncle Rube' is far superior to any play depicting country life that I have yet written." This is the play for everybody — amateurs as well as professionals. It can be produced on any stage, and pleases all classes, from the most critical city audiences to those of the smallest country towns. Printed directly from the author's acting copy, with all the original stage directions. 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