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Perform- ance may be given by amateurs on payment of a royalty of five dollars ($5.00). Correspondence on this subject should be addressed to Waltkr H. Baker & Co., 5 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. The professional stage rights are also strictly reserved, and performance by professional actors, given in ad- vertised places of amusement and for profit, is forbidden. Persons who may wish to produce this play publicly and pro- fessionally should apply to the author in care of the publishers* BOSTON WALTER H. BAKER & CO. 1919 The Copper Pot PERSONS Two Travellers. Amin, the judge. Salameh, the coffee-house keeper* Two Strangers. Abdallah, the generous. Fat' ma, leader of the dancers. Hedba, chief dancer. Rasid, the avaricious. Habsah 1 Nur \ village women. Jamaleh J ; Villagers and Dancing-girls, Copyright, 1919, by Frances Healey As author and proprietor All stage and moving picture rights reserved ©CLO 52708 SEP 30 1919 COSTUMES AND CHARACTERISTICS The scene shows the street and sidewalk of an Arab village. The sidewalk and as much of the street as is con- venient is customarily used for tethered donkeys and sleeping camels and dogs, and for the stools of the cafe. People walk in the street. The houses, which extend along the back in an un- broken block, are one story, windowless and of baked mud or stone. The doors of the houses and cafe are of wood, with heavy iron hinges and bolts. The cafe doors are double, and the house doors about as high as a man (if the lintel of a door makes one stoop, an enemy is at a dis- advantage when he tries to enter). The interior of the cafe is dark, lightened by gleams of copper or brass, a charcoal brazier, or a shaft of light on a gorgeous rug. The stools are rough, four-legged af- fairs, about a foot high ; the benches a little higher, some- times with a rug thrown over them. Although the scene is at twilight or early dawn, it is well to emphasize the contrast of the dark coolness of in- teriors and the intense blackness of shadows, with the stark, bleached and sunbaked walls and street. The contrast between glaring light and heavy shadow is very characteristic. The men wear a long white shirt to below the knees, belted, and with the heavy plain or striped abbaya (outer cloak). On their heads they wear the square keffiyeh of white cotton or dark silk, folded diagonally and held in place by a heavy double rope around the head. Salameh may wear full trousers, a short jacket and a gay turban, closely wrapped, instead. Amin should wear a close, im- maculate white turban, and should have a long white beard. 4 COSTUMES AND CHARACTERISTICS Bedouin women dress in dark blue, trailing chemises, with long, wide and pointed sleeves, and with long bluish and purplish veils bound around their heads : many silver chains, rings, anklets, coins, bracelets and earrings. If the colors as a whole seem too sombre, the dancing women can wear any clear strong colors, crimson, or- ange, purple, white, with touches of brilliant green (no large amount of green, which is the sacred color of the Prophet), cerise, black, scarlet, etc. For combinations, study an Oriental rug, but keep the colors fairly crude and strong, with no delicate shades. The men may also wear black and yellow and red-striped shirts, with dag- gers and pistols, and long and ancient guns as well as modern rifles. The whole play may be costumed in Turkish clothes, full trousers, short jacket (European or otherwise), and the red fez. Amin should in any case wear a close white turban. PLEASE NOTICE The acting rights in this play are strictly reserved by the author. Applications for its use should be addressed to the author in care of Walter H. Baker & Co., 5 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. Attention is called to the penalties provided by the Copyright Law of the United States of America in force July 1, 1909, for any infringement of her rights, as follows : Sec. 28. That any person who wilfully and for profit shall infringe any Copyright secured by this Act, or who shall knowingly and wilfully aid or abet such infringement, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for not ex- ceeding one year or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, or both, at the discretion of the court. Sac. 39. That any person who, with fraudulent intent, shall insert or impress any notice of Copyright required by this Act, or words of the same purport, in or upon any uncopyrighted article, or with fraudulent in- tent shall remove or alter the copyright notice upon any article duly copy- righted shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars. NOTE Amin is pronounced Ameen. The accent in Salameh and in Abdallah (The Slave of God) falls on the second syllable The same in Jamaleh. The last syllable in the name Rasid is accented. Fat'ma is pronounced Fathma, the h scarcely sounded. Hedba and Habsah are accented on the first syllable, and the u in Nur is pronounced like the double o in "poor." "Marloom" means "certainly"; " semneh " (the eh slurred over very lightly, is clarified butter). « Eiwa," that is, "by Allah," is the equivalent of our "Yes." The Copper Pot SCENE I The scene represents a village street east of the Bahr Lut. At r. a door opens into Abdallah's courtyard; adjoin- ing it, and occupying most of the stage, is Salameh's coffee-house. The low stools are set in the street itself, and through the wide-open doors one sees the dark in- terior, with low, rug-covered benches at the sides, a large charcoal brazier, copper coffee-pots, etc. At the extreme l. is Rasid's doorway, which, if more desir- able, need not be shown on the stage at all. (When the curtain rises, several men are discovered in the coffee-house smoking and drinking coffee. Salameh and Amin, the Judge, in front. Two travellers enter.) First Traveller. This is the house. (Knocks at Abdallah's.) Second Traveller. They say he makes all welcome. (The door opens.) First Trav. Abdallah? Abdallah. Come in, come in ! Nay, but ye are wel- come ! (He draws them in in friendly fashion, the gate closing behind them.) Amin. So Abdallah has guests to-night ! Salameh. Wallachi ! Always he has guests ! One or 7 8 THE COPPER POT two every night. All travellers know him for a generous man ! Am in. He is generous. He has a good name in the city. Salameh. In the city and in the desert. He is an honest man. (Two strangers conic in and sit dozvn. A servant goes to them and takes their orders. ) Am in. Yet he is not rich ! Salameh. He spends all on his guests. Amin. It is better to be hospitable than to be rich. Salameh. It is better. Some do not think so. (Ab- dallah's door opens. He steps into the street and conies to the coffee-house. ) Welcome ! Abdallah. Allah is good ! Five guests have honored me to-night ! Salameh. Five! Abdallah. Allah is great ! Would that he might send me a larger pot in which to cook their dinner! Are not these strangers ? Salameh. They have just come in. Abdallah (goes to newcomers and salaams). Peace to ye! Strangers. On thee be peace ! Abdallah. Ye are strangers here? Strangers. We are strangers. We have come from Ma'an. Abdallah. Nay, but ye are no longer strangers ! Ye are my guests ! (They protest.) Salameh (to Amin). If Abdallah's pot was too small for five, how shall it hold food for seven ? Abdallah (to strangers). By the Prophet, ye shall come ! Amin. Allah, who sends the guests, should also send the pot to cook their food. Abdallah (hurries to Salameh). Thy mercy is as the mercy of Allah! Canst thou not lend me a pot? Alas, mine is too small — it is but a little pot ! THE COPPER POT g Salameh. My largest is as thine. I have a new one, but it is very small. Abdallah. Woe is me! For unless I can borrow I am disgraced ! Salameh. Allah send thee comfort ! Abdallah. May Allah grant thee his peace ! [Exit with two strangers into his house. Salameh. There is but one man in the city with a pot larger than Abdallah's ! Amin. Then is his honor saved ! Who would not lend to save a friend's good name? (Salameh shakes his head.) A copper pot is but a copper pot ! A man would lend more than a copper pot to his neighbor ! Salameh. Not Rasid ! Amin. Rasid is not generous! Salameh. Rasid is rich rather than generous. (Sounds of flute and drum. Salameh turns to look.) It is Fat'ma and her dancers. They'll have small gain from you or me ! Enter Fat'ma and the dancers. Fat'ma. Shall we dance for you to-night, O Sal- ameh ? Salameh. Who would pay ye? I am a poor man. (They laugh.) The Judge is old (Amin bristles), and, beside us, I expect only Rasid. Fat'ma. Rasid ! (The dancers laugh.) Hedba. Rasid is not poor, neither is he old, but Allah preserve me from dancing again for copper coins ! Amin (holding up a gold-piece). Wilt thou dance for gold, little one? Fat'ma. For gold— and for Amin ! (Musk. Hedba dances. Amin gives her the money.) Salameh. Listen, Fat'ma ! I am a poor man, but I will give you more than one piece of gold. Abdallah has many guests to-night. Go, dance for him ! Amin. Since Abdallah has no pot for his dinner, it 10 THE COPPER POT may be ye can make his guests forget their hunger and so save his honor ! Fat'ma. Allah reward thee ! (The dancers cross to Abdallah's door and knock.) Salameh (to Amin). Dancing is good after meat, but instead of food? La! Amin. Then must Rasid lend his pot to Abdallah ! Salameh. Rasid is shrewd. If he lent to his own father he would drive a hard bargain ! (Abdallah's gate opens.) Fat'ma. Shall we dance for the guests to-night, O Abdallah? Abdallah. Marloom! Come in, come in! (To Salameh and Amin.) Praise Allah! He has sent me guests, and now he has sent me dancers for entertain- ment. Salameh. Aye, O Abdallah! But thy dinner? Abdallah. True, I have no pot. But who knoweth the heart of Allah ? It may be he will send me one. [Exit. Amin. Allah gives wisdom to the good. Abdallah is not a fool ! (Music, drums and the sound of singing from Abdal- lah's house; applause and laughter and the merry voices of the f casters.) Salameh. Allah's wisdom is not as man's wisdom and Rasid is very rich. Every night from this side come sounds, of feasting and merriment; music, and the rich smell of semneh and the roasting lamb. Every morning strangers leave the house and go forth into the desert, to other towns and into the low, black tents ; and everywhere men speak well of our village because of Abdallah's hos- pitality. Here, Rasid lives. He is rich, but he makes no feasts. His flocks are like snow on the hillsides, the sound of their bleating at twilight is as the sound of a thousand silver bells. He sells wool and wheat. He trades in large cities. O Judge, what do men say of Rasid? Amin. Yes, Rasid's is the wisdom of men ! THfi COPPER POT II Salameh. Every evening he conies here. He picks up gossip, a word here, a word there.. And he buys one cup of bitter coffee ! Amin. Yet, he may lend his great copper pot to Ab- dallah ! (Abdallah's gate opens and he hurries into the above.) Abdallah. Has not Rasid a huge copper pot? Salameii. One large enough to cook a whole lamb. But he never lends ! Abdallah. He must lend to me. See, his gate is opening ! (Rasid enter s. He comes in slozvly, searching the cof- fee-house with his eyes. ) Salameh. Peace to thee, O Rasid! Rasid. And to ye, peace! {To servant.) Bitter coffee ! (Rasid seats himself. Salameii claps his hands, and as the servant comes, cries:) Salameh. Bring fresh pipes ! Abdallah. Nay, I have guests! {Pipes and coffee are brought. Abdallah stands, but the others are seated.) Rasid. Guests, and always guests, Abdallah ! By the Prophet, it is well that thou art a rich man ! Abdallah. Would to Allah I were rich enough to buy a huge copper pot ! Rasid {scenting a bargain). A copper pot is not dear to one so rich as Abdallah ! Abdallah. A copper pot as large as I would buy is not cheap. Moreover it is late and the shops are closed. Rasid. Thou wouldst buy a copper pot to-night? Abdallah. Alas, I am but a poor man. I need a copper pot, but where shall I find one to buy, and where should I find the gold to pay ? Rasid {slowly). There is a pot, a huge pot, in my house. It is very large— the Djinn might cook a man in such a pot 12 THE COPPER POT Abdallah. Now praised be Allah! It is better to have friends than to be rich! It is better to borrow a copper pot from a neighbor than to meet shame before one's guests ! Rasid (a little taken aback). I might sell Abdallah. If thou wilt lend, why should I buy? Amin. True, it would be a neighborly act, O Rasid! Salameh. Indeed, Rasid is a generous neighbor. Rasid (rises to go, feeling himself baited). Will fair words bring a stone from the bottom of the Dead Sea? Then will they make me lend my great copper pot ! Amin. To a neighbor, — to a friend ! Abdallah. Thy mercy is as the mercy of Allah! Lend it to me to-night, and I swear I will bring it back to thee at dawn ! Rasid. I never borrow, neither do I lend ! Amin. It is evil indeed to deny a neighbor, and he that is far from evil can sing! Abdallah. I swear I will bring it back at dawn! Nay, if I return it not, I swear to divorce all my wives ! Rasid. By Allah, I will not lend my copper pot ! Abdallah. For the honor of thy father's beard ! Rasid. I will not lend ! (Turns to go.) Amin. O Rasid! Knowest thou not that he who lends to a neighbor in distress giveth alms to Allah? And shall Allah stand in a man's debt ? Fat'ma (slips in and runs up. to Rasid). Thou owest me two gold pieces for the dancing in Abara two months ago! Rasid. Gold? Gold for dancing? Ah! Fat'ma. Shame! To break thine oath and to pay golden-footed Hedba with copper coins ! Amin. In truth, Rasid, men of honor pay dancers in gold ; also a man of wealth should lend to his neighbor ! Abdallah. Lend me thy copper pot ! Rasid. It is huge,— it is heavy, — it is Abdallah. It is such a pot as I desire ! Amin. For a friend's good name, O Rasid ! Fat'ma. Pay me what thou owest ! THE COPPER POT 1 3 [• We are witnesses ! Rasid (trying to ignore Fat'ma). Come, then, but thou hast sworn to return the pot at dawn. Ye are wit- nesses ! Salameh. Amin. [Exeunt Rasid and Abdallah. Fat'ma. I also am a witness, O Rasid ! [Exit. Salameh. I have heard of miracles. Praise Allah, I have now seen one ! Amin. Aye, Rasid lent, it is true. Indeed, he could not do otherwise. There be greater miracle/, than these, O Salameh ! Abdallaii (off). Thy mercy is as Allah's mercy, and who can measure his by line or rule? Rasid (off). At dawn! Abdallaii. At dawn I swear to bring back thy copper pot! Farewell! (Enters, carrying pot.) It is a copper pot after my own heart!- It is huge, a very mother of all pots! (Exit into own house. The stage darkens. Sounds of singing, drums and twanging strings from Abdal- lah's house. The other men in the coffee-house all go off one or two at a time.) Salameh. Abdallah has borrowed the pot — we be witnesses. Yea, and Rasid is cruel to his debtors. He would exact a huge payment if anything were lost or stolen. What thinkest thou, will Abdallah return the pot at dawn ? Amin. Marloom, he will return it. Abdallah is an honest man! Salameh. Aye, he is honest, but he is also very clever. I am a poor man. The friendship of my friends is as gold to me ! Amin. Abdallah's friendship is better than gold. Rasid's is as clay. Have no fear, Salameh. Abdallah will keep his oath. Salameh. I do not fear. Moreover, though I am a poor man and friendship is as gold to me, yet I myself would give a copper pot to see Abdallah outwit Rasid. 14 T ME COPPZk POf (The sounds of revelry have died away.) Amin. It is late, and shadows walk instead of men. Thou wilt stay ? Salameh. Yes, I often sleep here on a bench; and to- morrow I would be here at dawn. Amin. Farewell. [Exit. (Salameh closes the shutters of his shop and goes in, closing the doors behind him. When all is quiet, Ab- dallah's gate opens and he peers out. Then he slips furtively up to Salameh's door and knocks, softly at first, then louder.) Salameh (within). Who knocks? Abdallah. It is I, thy neighbor ! Open to me for the mercy of Allah! (The door opens and Abdallah goes in. Candle-light flickers uncertainly through the chinks of the shutters. Abdallah, off; delightedly.) It is of the very shape, and' quite new ! Salameh (off). I bought it of Abu Meen, the copper- smith, this morning. Take it, take it for nothing. What are forty piastres between thee and me ? Abdallah (off). Nay, but I will pay! I desire it to be a secret purchase between thee and me, therefore I will give thee what thou wilt. Salameh (off). Gold is the Sultan's mute. Thou shalt have it for the price I paid. Lo, it is thine ! Enter Abdallah with a small copper pot in his hand. Abdallah (turning back). May Allah reward thee! May he increase thy goods ! Salameh (off). And thine! Farewell. (Abdallah slips out, hiding the pot under his cloak, and goes into his own house. Both doors are shut. After a short pause the muezzin sounds in the distance and the sky glows with the dawn. The muezzin continues. Salameh opens his doors and shutters and goes in to his prayers. Abdal- lah's gate opens and he sets outside Rasid's pot. Then he comes out in the growing light, carrying rather ten- derly the small new pot. With the two in his hands he crosses the stage. As he passes Salameh's open door, Salameh rises.) May thy day be happy! . THE COPPER POT 1 5 Abdallaii. May thine be blessed. Salameh. Thou art an honest man, O Abdallnh ! Abdallaii. I keep my oath which thou hast wit- nessed. Lo, day breaks. Salameh. But the little pot ! Abdallah. A miracle, O Salameh ! A miracle ! (Rasid' s gate opens and he peers out. Seeing Abdallah at Salameh's, he comes out and meets him there.) May thy day be happy ! Rasid. And blessed ! It is already after daybreak ! Abdallah. True, O neighbor ! I was delayed. Here is thy own, according to my oath. (He sets the two pots on the ground at Rasid' s feet.) Salameh is witness, I have kept my word. Salameh. Eiwa, but Rasid. The large and handsome one is mine. What is the small pot? I am an honest man and want but my own ! Abdallah. I, too, am an honest man O, Rasid. Last night a great wonder chanced. I cooked my dinner in thy pot, I washed it and set it in the courtyard. When I went out this morning, lo, there lay the little pot beside it, this little pot which it had borne in the night ! Salameh. Which it had borne? Rasid. Ah, yes ! Mine is indeed a marvellous pot ! Abdallah. And as the mother is thine, so is the child. Is it not a fair young pot ? (Salameh examines pot, and light dawns upon him.) Rasid. True, as the mother is mine, the child should be also. Yes, both pots are mine. Ye now understand why I was unwilling to lend. If I had said that it might bear a child, who would have believed me? But now Abdallah hath said it, and thou, Abdallah, art an honest man ! Abdallah. Thank God, I am honest ! (He turns to go.) Rasid (catching him). And, Abdallah,— I will lend to thee whenever thou hast need. Another time, who but Allah knoweth? — it may bear another child! l6 THE COPPER POT Abdallah. In truth, who knoweth— but Allah ? May he increase thy goods, farewell. [Exit. Salameh. This is indeed a wonder, O Rasid ! Rasid. A miracle. And, thank God, I am clever ! CURTAIN SCENE II The scene is the same, three days later, about sunset. In the coffee-house Salameh is seated. Occasional sounds of wailing come from Abdallah's house. Enter Fat'ma and her dancers, accompanied by three women, Habsah, Nur and Jamaleh. Salameh. Welcome, ye Fat'ma! Do ye dance to- night ? Fat'ma. Aye, Abdallah's guests were generous. We hear he has prepared another feast {She is interrupted by the wailing.) Hedba. Listen! Is Abdallah dead? Fat'ma. Nay, I know not ! Hedba. Alas, I have danced for Abdallah Jamaleh. Salameh, who is dead? Salameh. A stranger died last night. Abdallah weeps as if for one of his own sons. Fat'ma. Abdallah is a generous man. It would be friendly for us to mourn with him. Hedba. Come then (She goes to Abdallah's door.) Salameh. It would be friendly! (hastily) and yet I think it would be more friendly to wait till sunset ! Hedba. Then will his grief be less ! (She enters, followed by Fat'ma and dancers.) Salameh. No less. And then will his vow of silence be accomplished and ye can comfort him ! Habsah. Has he vowed silence ? Salameh. Till sunset. When I first heard the wail- ing I knocked. A slave told me. (Looking off.) Lo! Rasid returns from his three days' journey ! Nur. Much may happen in three days ! 17 1 8 THE COPPER POT Salameh. Much has happened. Last night Abdallah borrowed the great copper pot again! He has not yet returned it ! Jamaleh. Think you that Rasid will wait till sunset? Habsah. He will come now — to mourn with Ab- dallah ! Rasid {off). My copper pot? Again? And he has not brought it back? (A slave cries out for mercy. Rasid enters, very angry. He hears the wailing at Abdallah's house and pauses irresolutely near the coffee-house.) Salameh. Welcome, O Rasid! Rasid. Peace to ye. Abdallah is dead? Salameh. Nay, a guest who came to him last night has died. s Rasid. He has taken my huge copper pot ! I will get it myself ! Salameh. Wait till sunset ! Rasid. I will not wait ! Habsah. Abdallah will see no one till sunset. He has a vow! Salameh. See, the sun is low over the desert ! Nur. How soft the light is at sunset! Who would think he could be so fierce at midday? Lo, how he touches with tender fingers the ripening dates! They hang against the tall, straight trunks like golden fruit of Paradise, half-hidden in the leaves ! And the cool wind that Allah sends with the sunset whispers " hush, hush " in the dry fronds, and blows the smoke of the evening fires across the town like a thin blue veil across the face of a beautiful woman ! Rasid. The sun is set! (The muezzin rings out, and Salameh immediately begins his devotions. Nur, Jamaleh and Habsah retiring up stage. Rasid hesitates, then he too turns tozvards Mecca and hurries through his prayers. Last to begin, he is first to end, and hurries to Abdallah's door. He knocks. As the others rise they stand watching him. At first there is no anszver, and the wailing breaks out anew. He knocks again, pounding furiously on the door. The door swings in, and Abdal- fHE COPPER POT !$ ■ 1AM Is seen standing in the arch, his clothes rent and awry, his beard and hair disheveled in mourning. Behind him ihe figures of Fat'ma and her dancers, disheveled in mourning, are dimly seen, sitting on the ground and rock- ing back and forth as they wail and " mourn/' As Abdallah recognises Rasid, who is in a towering rage, he groans and utters a despairing cry, his eyes raised to heaven. ) Where is my copper pot ? Abdallah. Alas ! Rasid. It has borne another little one perhaps, or two, or might it be by chance — three? Abdallah (shaking his head). Alas, alas! Rasid. Where is my beautiful, my marvellous pot? (Abdallah groans.) Give me my copper pot! Abdallah. Alas, alas ! Woe is me ! Rasid. Give me my pot ! Abdallah. Woe is me ! I am ashamed to look in thy face ! Woe is me, woe is me ! Rasid. Now, by Allah ! (He starts to enter; glances back at the watching men and steps back, getting control of himself. The watchers draw nearer.) Give me my pot! Abdallah. Alas, I cannot! Rasid. Thou hast sold it ! Abdallah. Will ye insult me in my grief? {He makes as if to close the gate, but Rasid furiously • throws it open.) Rasid. I do not insult thee ! We — we mourn with thee ! Give me back my copper pot ! Abdallah. Alas, it is dead ! All. Dead ! Rasid. That is a child's tale. A copper pot cannot die! Abdallah (broken-hearted). Nevertheless, it is dead. Rasid. Thou hast stolen it ! A copper pot has never died! Abdallah. It is dead. Rasid (turns furiously) . Let the Judge decide! Habsah. Lo ! he comes ! Salameh. Amin comes ! 20 THE COPPER POT Enter Am in. Amin. May Allah grant ye His peace! I come to mourn with the afflicted ! Rasid. Justice, O Judge ! Justice ! Amin. Allah alone is just! Abdallah. Give righteous judgment, O Judge! Amin. Allah alone is righteous. Rasid. Wilt thou judge my cause? Amin. Is it seemly to quarrel with a man in his grief? Doest thou well to strive with Abdallah in his affliction ? Rasid. I do well ! (Amin gravely seats himself in the centre, Abdallah and Rasid standing a little before him at his right and left. The others a little back.) Amin. For my fee I demand two lambs, sound and without blemish, and a copper pot of such a size. SZu.AH. } Tt iS a J« St demand - Amin (to Rasid). Thy charge? Rasid. By Allah, O Judge! This man has stolen from me my great copper pot ! Hear me and mark the truth ! Salameh is my witness, that four nights ago, Ab- dallah came to me here in this coffee-house and begged to borrow my huge copper pot ! O Judge, never has there been such a pot as mine ! So heavy — so smooth — so red and shining — nay, it was more like a gold pot than like one of copper. Abdallah. It was indeed a fair pot. Rasid (a little taken aback). Ye hear — ye all are wit- nesses ! I am an honest man, I never borrow, neither do I lend, yet this once, to save my neighbor's honor, against my will, against my wisdom and my custom, O Amin, I lent my pot to Abdallah ! Abdallah. Thou hast been a kind neighbor, O Rasid ! Rasid (still more taken aback). Yes, praise Allah, I am a kind neighbor — I am a kindly man ! Abdallah. Did I not return thy fair copper pot ? Rasid. Aye, Abdallah returned the pot. It had a THE COPPER POT 2 1 scratch on the bottom, but I am a generous man and take no account of trifles. Then, three days ago I went on a journey. Abdallah. But the child Salameh. There was something beside a scratch ! Amin. Peace ! We listen, O Rasid ! Rasid. Three days have I travelled. Now as I rode up to my own house, weary and thirsty, the dust of the desert still clinging to my beard, my slave met me at the door. Trembling he confessed that Abdallah had bor- rowed my pot in my absence and that he had not yet returned it. Faint from my journey, I went to Abdallah's house, demanding my own. Abdallah refuses to give it to me, saying that my pot is dead!- All. Dead ! A copper pot die ! Nay, this is a won- der! Amin. Peace! Can copper die ? Rasid. Allah knows, O Judge ! Who ever heard of a copper pot that died? Bid Abdallah give me back my copper pot ! Amin. Thou hast heard, O Abdallah? Abdallah. I have heard ! Amin. What hast thou to say? Abdallah. Nothing. Rasid has spoken truth ! Rasid. Ah-h ! Give me back my pot ! Abdallah. Have I not said that it is dead? O Judge, this was no common pot. It was indeed more like a pot of gold than like one of copper. Rasid has spoken truth, but he has not told all. Four days ago I borrowed his great pot for the first time. I used it, washed it, and not knowing how wonderful a thing it was, I lay down to sleep. At dawn, when I went to take it home, there be- side it lay a little new pot which it had borne in the night. Habsah. By Allah ! A miracle ! Jamaleh. This was indeed a marvellous pot ! Abdallah. And as the mother belonged to Rasid, without doubt the child did also. I returned them to him according to my oath. Is it not true, O Rasid ? Salameh. I am witness ! It is the truth ! Amin. Rasid? Rasid. It is true. Habsah. Abdallah is indeed an honest man\ Abdallah. Last night I borrowed the pot again. 1 treated it kindly as before. Alas, this morning when I should have returned it to Rasid, I found — O, woe is me ! — it had died in the night ! Rasid. But a copper pot cannot die! Justice, O Judge ! Amin. This is a strange tale. It is plain thine was no common pot. Hast thou the child? Rasid. It is in my house. Amin. Let it be brought ! Rasid. I will go fetch it! Amin. Has Rasid none to do his errands? Rasid (claps his hands). Ya abed! Slave! (As the gate opens.) Bring the small copper pot! Nur. Great are the wonders of Allah ! Now who would dream that copper should be born of copper? Jam ale i-i. Yet is it more strange than that an egg should be born of a bird? Indeed, it is not unreasonable ! Now if the copper pot had borne a child of gold — why, that would be indeed a miracle ! Enter slave with the small pot. Amin (taking it). Is this indeed the child? Abdallah. By Allah, it is ! Amin (to Rasid). Thou dost claim this because it is the child of thine that is lost? Rasid. The owner of the mare is owner also of the foal! Amin. True. Therefore this is, without doubt, thine. Still, Abdallah spoke truth when he told thee of this first wonder. Why dost thou now doubt his word? Rasid. It is impossible that copper should die ! Amin. This is a hard question. A copper pot has borne a child. Abdallah claims, Rasid denies, that the pot has since died. Wilt thou, O Rasid, limit the power of Allah to one miracle ? Behold, I give judgment, and my judgment is true. Ye all are witnesses. This is my word. A copper pot that can bear a child is mortal. It can also die. All. Alhamdulillah ! Great is Amin's wisdom T The THE CUPPER POT 23 wisdom of God is better than the wisdom of men ! Whose mercy is as Allah's mercy? Rasid. Give me my little pot ! Amin. Nay, O Rasid ! This is my fee, this and two of thy fairest, finest lambs! Curse not the judgment Allah gives through the lips of the Judge. [Exit Rasid. Abdallaii. Now praised be Allah, who hath honored his servant and hath vindicated his name before all peo- ple ! To-night ye shall all be my guests, yea, every one ! Now by Allah ye shall all come ! For lo, Allah himself hath sent me a huge copper pot — a fair pot. — Allah, who sends me many guests, has now sent me a pot in which to cook their dinner. CURTAIN PIECES PEOPLE ASK FOR Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic One hundred selections in prose and verse by F. II. Gassaway, O. W. Holmes, Henry Ward Beecher, Alice Cary, R. H. Stoddard, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Dudley Warner, J. M. Bailey, Bill Nye, Phoebe Cary, John Boyle O'Reilly, Irwin Russell, Lucy Larcom, Wendell Phillips, James Russel Lowell, Eugene J. Hall and others. 240 pages. Frier, 25 cents PIECES PEOPLE LIKE Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic and Dramatic One hundred selections in prose and verse by Chauncey M. Depew, Col. John Hay, Hezekiah Butterworth, James Russell Lowell, John Boyle O'Reilly, Robert G. Ingersoll, Bill Nye, James Whitcomb Riley, T. W. Higginson, W. H. Seward, Clement Scott, Joaquin Miller, E. C. Stedman, Brander Matthews, John G. Saxe, Joel Benton, Charles Follen Adams and others. 214 pages. 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Price, 25 cents ENCORE PIECES And Other Recitations Seventy-three selections in prose and verse by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carolyn Wells, Ackland Von Boyle, Charles Follen Adams, Hans Breit- mann, F. H. Gassaway, Nora Perry, J. W. Kelley, Belle Marshall Locke, S. A. Frost and others. 210 pages. Price, 25 cents THE AIR-SPY A War Play in Three Acts By Mansfield Scott Twelve males, four females. Costumes, modern ; scenery, a single in- terior. Plays an hour and a half. Royalty, #10.00 for first, #5.00 for subsequent performances by same cast; free for school performance. In- spector Steele, of the Secret Service, sets his wits against those of German emissaries in their plot against Dr. Treadwell's air ship, a valuable war invention, and baffles them after an exciting pursuit. An easy thriller, full of patriotic interest. l£asy to get up and very effective. Strongly recommended for school performance. Originally produced by The Newton (Mass.) High School. Price, 25 cents CHARACTERS Dr. Henry Treadwell, inventor of the Giant Air-ship. Victor Lawrence, his pretended friend — a German spy. Harold Felton, of the United States Army. Carleton Everton, a young Englishman. Karl Schoneman, of the German Secret Service. Franz Muller, his assistant. Arthur Merrill, also of the United States Army. Inspector Malcome Steele, of the United States Secret Service. Henry Gootner, a German agent. Francis Urury, one of Treadwell's guests. Corporal Thayer. Private Freeman. Ruth Treadwell, Treadwell* s daughter. Muriel Lawrence, Lawrence's daughter. Mrs. Treadwell. Margaret Linden, a friend of Ruth's. The Time. — America's second summer in the war. The Place. — A deserted mansion on a small island near East- port, Maine. SYNOPSIS Act I. The afternoon of June 10th. Act II. The evening of September 21st. Act III. Scene 1. The afternoon of the next day. About 1:30. Scene 2. An hour later. ART CLUBS ARE TRUMPS A Play in One Act By Mary Mo?icure Parker Twelve females. Costumes of 1890 with one exception ; scene, a single easy interior. Plays thirty minutes. Describes the trials of an ambitious woman who desired to form a club in the early days of club life for women about thirty years ago, before the days of telephones and auto- mobiles. A capital play for ladies' clubs or for older women in general. The costumes are quaint and the picture of life in the year of the Chicago World's Fair offers an amusing contrast to the present. Recommended. Price, 25 cents THE SUBMARINE SHELL A War Play in Four Acts By Mansfield Scott Seven males, four females. Costumes, modern; scenery, two interiors. Plays two hours. Royalty for amateur performance #10.00 for one, $15.00 for two performances. Inspector Malcome Steele, of the U. S. Secret Service, devotes himself in this thrilling ]>lay to unravelling the German plots that surround Prof. Middlebrook's submarine shell that is to bring the downfall of the Hun. The battle between his wits and those of "Tom Cloff," the German secret agent, is of absorbing interest. An easy and effective thriller that can be recommended for school performance Price* 25 cents CHARACTERS Hans Kraft, alias James Detective Albert Bradbury. McGrady. Inspector Malcome Steele. Otto Herman, alias William. "Tom Cloff." Mr. Warren Middlebrook. Mrs. Middlebrook. Monsieur Charles LeClair. Eleanor Middlebrook. Professor Henry Wester- Margaret Linden. berg. Delia. SYNOPSIS Act I. The living-room. August 11, after dinner. Act II. Same as Act I. August 12, 1 : 30 p. m. Act III. The private laboratory. That evening, 7 ; 30. Act IV. Same as Act HI. Later, 10 p. m. THE AMERICAN IDEA A Sketch in One Act By Lily Cart hew Three males, two females. Costumes, modern ; scenery, an interior. Plays twenty minutes. Royalty for amateur performance £5-00. Mignon Goldman, following the American Idea, throws off the parental yoke and marries the man of her choice and not the choice of her parents. She brings home for the parental blessing John Kelly. Abe, her father, is disconsolate at this prospect until he sees John and recognizes in him Van Kele Operchinsky, rechristened in accordance with "The American Idea." Originally produced at The Peabody Playhouse, Boston. Strongly recommended. Price, 25 cents. THE CROWNING OF COLUMBIA A Patriotic Fantasy in One Act By Kathrine F. Carlyon Twenty-five boys and twenty-four girls. Costumes, modern and picturesque. Nothing required in the way of scenery but a platform. Plays half an hour or less. Columbia is approached by the Foresters, the Farmers, the Miners, the Pleasure Seekers, the Ammunition Workers and even the Red Cross Workers, all asking her to be their Queen, but it is only when the Soldiers and the Red Cross Nurses come, asking nothing and giving all, that she yields. Easy, pretty, timely, and strongly recom- mended. Introduces music. Price t 25 cents JOLLY PLAYS FOR HOLIDAYS A Collection of Christmas Plays for Children By Carolyn Wells COMPRISING The Day Before Christmas. Nine males, eight females. A Substitute for Santa Claus. Five males, two females. " Is Santa Claus a Frauu ? Seventeen males, nine females and chorus. The Greatest Day of the Year. Seven males, nineteen females. Christmas Gifts of all Nations, Three males, three females and chorus. The Greatest Gift. Ten males, eleven iemales. The plays composing this collection are reprinted from " The Ladies' Home Journal " of Philadelphia and other popular magazines in answer to a persistent demand for them for acting purposes. Miss Wells' work requires no introduction to a public already familiar with her wit, her hu- mor and her graceful and abundant fancy, all of which attractive qualities are amply exemplified in the above collection. These plays are intended to be acted by young people at the Christmas season, and give ample sug-« gestions for costuming, decoration and other details of stage production. These demands are sufficiently elastic in character, however, to make it possible to shorten and simplify the performance to accommodate almost any stage or circumstances. The music called for is of the simplest and most popular sort, such as is to be found in every household and memory. This collection can be strongly recommended. Price, cloth, post-paid by mail, bo cents net CHEERY COMEDIES FOR CHRISTMAS A Collection of Plays, Pantomimes, Tableaux, Readings, Recitations, Illustrated Poems, etc., Suitable for Use at Christmas By Edith M. Burrows, Gertrude M* Henderson, and others CONTENTS The Awakening of Christmas. A Christmas Operetta for children. Twenty-five boys and thirty-two girls, or may be played by a less number if desired. Scenery and costumes easily arranged ; music selected from popular sources. A Christmas Strike. A very easy entertainment for four boys and three girls. Santa's Surprise. For thirty-three children, or less if desired, and a man to impersonate Santa Claus. The Syndicated Santa Claus. For three males and two females (adults), who speak, and any number of children. Kriss Krlngle's Panorama. A collection of tableaux, recitations, etc. Price, 25 cents THE SLACKER A Patriotic Play in One Act By Jewell Boihwcll lull Two male, seven female characters. Scene, an interior; costumes^ modern and military. Plays forty minutes. The hero, beyond the draft age, has not enlisted because he deems it to be his widowed mother's wish and his sweetheart's preference, as well as his own duty not to do so. He tries on the uniform of a fiisnd who is going, "just to be iii it once," and being discovered, finds to tits surprise that both his mother and his fiancee have been miserable under the charge that he is a " slacker "and are re- joiced to have him make good. Picturesque, patriotic, dramatic— an ideal play for a Red Cross Entertainment. Strongly recommended. Price, 25 cents CHARACTERS Grant Moore. Mrs. Smith, his mother. Mrs. Moore, his mother. Ella Brown, his sweetheart. Bettv Caldwell, his fiancee. Mrs. Ralph. Benny Smith, a young lieu- Mrs. Elton. tenant Mrs. Jones. Other ladies ami girls of the Marsvtlle Red Cross Society. A ROMANCE IN PORCELAIN A Comedy in One Act By Rudolph Raphael Three males, one female. Scene, an interior; costumes, modern. Plays twenty minutes. Cecilia and Clarence, engaged to marry, resort to Dr. Spencer before the knot is tied to secure a new upper set. Their troub- les in concealing their errand from each other reach a climax when both sets are stolen and the truth has to come out. Very funny and heartily recommended. Price, 25 cents A PROFESSIONAL VISIT A Comedy in One Act By Rudolph Raphael Two males, one female. Scene, an interior ; costumes, modern. James Winthrop, impecunious, calls upon his old friend, Dr. Raleigh, also hard up, to discuss the situation, and ends by getting engaged to the Doctor's landlady, a rich widow, who calls to collect the rent. Very swift work. Recommended. Price, 23 cents THE GO-BETWEEN A Dramatic Comedy Playlet By Harry L. Newton One male, two females. Scene, an interior ; costumes, modern. Plays twenty minutes. Hezekiah, jilted on the eve of his wedding to Muriel, a heartless adventuress, who has ruined him, is rescued from suicide by Jane, a country sweetheart, in a capital little piece, mingling humor and patios most adroitly. Strongly recommended. Price, 25 cents THE AMERICANA A Comedy Drama in Three Acts for Female Characters By Anita Bradford Eleven females. Costumes, Spanish American ; scenery, interiors. Plays an hour and a half. Edith Merrick, a young American, lodging with Dona Ysabel, learns of the "treasure " for which this impoverished family is always hunting. She secures a lot of old gold and lets Chichi, a servant, find it in the Esteban garden, hoping thus to further Dolores', the daughter's, love affair with Paco, only to find that she is the object of that lady's jealousy in that quarter. All ends well, however. Free of royalty. Recommended. Price % 25 cents CHARACTERS Dolores Esteban, "Lolila." Edith Merrick, a young Dona Ysabel, her aunt. American woman. Ju ana, a faithful servant. Mrs. Lester, an American Tonia, Juana s old friend. tourist. Chichi, a half-breed Indian girl. Pauline j her d hterSt Carmen ) , • 7 /• n / . Winifred j s Elvira \ f^nds of Dolores. > Amalia t Inez, Mercedes, Maria, Luisa, Clara, girls of the village BEHIND THE SCENES A Comedy in Two Acts for Female Characters By Gladys Ruth Bridgham Twelve females. Scene, an interior ; costumes, modern and Colonial. Plays an hour and a half. Miss Darley comes to the Sherwood School for Girls apparently merely as a teacher, but really in order to have full ac.d free opportunity to discover the missing will of an eccentric uncle, a former occupant of the old house. Her researches are misunderstood by the girls, who take a hand in the matter, and complicate affairs a good deal. All ends well after a lot of excitement. Well recommended. Price, 2j cents ROMANCE BY SCHEDULE A Comedy in One Act for Female Characters By Mabel H. Crane Eight females. Scene, an interior ; costumes, modern. Plays twenty minutes. Nora Lee elopes from boarding school leaving a note inviting her friends to a midnight " wedding supper," the material for which she has left under her bed. In the midst of the feast Nora returns, the bor- rowed auto in which she has fled having broken down, making matrimony a failure. The " schedule " works out, however, after all, and her romance is accomplished. Well recommended. Price, ijj cents GRANDMA GIBBS OF THE RED CROSS A Patriotic Comedy Drama in Four Acts By Walter Ben Hare Eight males, nine females and two children, but may be given by three men and seven women if necessary or desired. Scenery, all interiors; costumes, modern and military. Plays a full evening. Grandma Gibbs gives herself to the Red Cross and sends her only son to the front. Re- ported seriously wounded, she goes in search of him and finds him in an American hospital, just in time to save his life. This provides a pic- turesque background and some picturesque tableaux to set off a prettyand timely love story of the war. Full of 'optimism and uplift and strongly recommended. In line with " Mrs. Briggs of the Poultry Yard." Price, 25 cents CHARACTERS Grandma Gibbs, doing her bit Edna Alston, the judge s in the Red Cross. daughter. Kittie Clover, her grand- Ezra' Gibbs, Grandma s young- daughter, aged 18. est son. Miss * Samanthy Snapp, a Mike Hannigan, a bad man. Splinterville pessimist. Happy Jim Hankins, a young Mrs. Wellington, a city so- farmer. ciety leader. Cousin Wellington, a city Loretta McBride, a country banker. lassie. DePuyster Cott, a millionaire. Janine, a French maid at the Doctor Dawson, in the U. S. Wellingtons'. Medical Corps. Miss Cummings, a Red Cross McGregor, a dignified butler. nurse. Corporal Shannon, a wounded Miss Boyer, her assistant. soldier. ■ Lizzie McBride, aged 8. Bub McBride, aged 6. The Baby. City Folks, Country Folks, Wounded Soldiers. SYNOPSIS Act I. — Grandma's home in the country. Off to war! Act II.— Three months later. Cousin Wellington's home in the city. Act III.— A year later. An American field hospital. "My boy, my boy ! " Act IV, — Two months later. Christmas day with Grandma. OUTWITTED A Comedy Dramatic Novelty By Harry L. Newton One male, one female. Scene, an interior ; costumes, modern. Plays twenty minutes. Sherman, a United States Secret Service man, encoun- ters Sophie, supposed to represent the enemy, and a duel of wits ensues. Very exciting and swift in movement, with an unexpected ending. Good work and well recommended. Price 25 cents A PLAY A MONTH By Alice IV. Chap/in Twelve twenty minute sketches for female characters, providing a timely and appropriate entertainment for each month in the year. Suit- able for church or school performance or for any other use of amateur theatricals. „ . „ . Price, jo cents CONTENTS Pickles, Bonbons, and Temper Independent Flynn (5 girls). (4 g> r ' s ). Home and Mother (6 girls). A Valentine Problem (3 girls). All for a Man (6 girls). Mad! Mad! (5 girls). Behind the Screen (5 girls). Because it Rained (4 girls). Thankful for Jack (6 girls). May (s girls). Merry Christmas (4 girls). That Boy (4 girls). TEN PLAYS FOR BOYS By George M. Baker and others A collection of popular plays, new and old, for boys of the school age, offering a wide variety of choice and providing a convenient means for making a selection of material for this purpose. Price, jo cents CONTENTS Not Wanted— A Wife (s boys). New Broom Sweeps Clean (6 boys). The Freedom of the Press (8 boys). A Tender Attachment (7 boys). The Great Elixir (9 boys). Dizzy's Dilemmas (4 boys). The Humors of the Strike (8 boys). Hypnotism (5 boys). My Uncle the Captain (6 boys). Julius Caesar in two acts (10 boys). THE ELF THAT STAYED BEHIND And Other Plays for Children By Madeline Poole Five exceptionally pretty, picturesque and actable little plays for young folks, all produced at various times by the author. Including one of the Colonial period, one of the Revolutionary and a Christmas play turning upon incidents of the present war in Belgium, the latter admirably suited for Red Cross entertainments. Strongly recommended for both literary and dramatic merit. Price, jo cents CONTENTS The Elf that Stayed Behind (1 boy, 5 The Quaker Way (3 boys, 4 girls). girls). The Christmas Box (3 boys, 3 girls). The Goblins (6 boys, 2 girls). A Puritan Prank (4 boys, 4 girls). A CAMP FIRE CINDERELLA A Camp Fire Play in One Act By Mrs. Arthur T. Seymour Six females. Scene, an interior ; costumes, modern and Camp Fire. Plays twenty minutes. Gertrude, the younger sister, is refused member- ship in the Camp Fire organization by her two sisters who use her astheii drudge, but her efficiency and unselfishness win out for her in the end. Well recommended. „ . Price, 75 cents i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i < i i i i i i i i i Plays and Novelties That Have Been " Winners " The Americana Anita's Trial Art Clubs are Trumps Behind the Scenes The Camp Fire Girls A Case for Sherlock Holmes The Farmerette Getting the Range Her First Assignment Hltty's Service Flag Joint Owners In Spain A King's Daughter The Knitting Club Meets A Lady to Call Leave it to Polly The Minute Man Miss Fearless & Co. A Modern Cinderella Moth-Balls Rebecca's Triumph The Thirteenth Star Twelve Old Maids An Awkward Squad The BIow-Up of Algernon Blow The Boy Scouts A Close Shave The First National Boot A Half- Back's Interference His Father's Son The Man With the Nose On the Quiet The People's Money A Regular Rah ! Rah ! 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