Synopses & Reviews
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EVERYCHILD A PLAY OR PAGEANT Frederick Peterson And Olive Tilford DarganDRAMATIS PERSONS Scene I. The Garden of Joy Cho-Cho The Clown Everychild Mother, Father, and dancing children Scene II. Sweat-shop Father, Mother, three children, Everychild Scene III. The Farmstead Jim the Father, Mary the Mother, Billie, Tom, and Rosie, their children. Cho-Cho and Everychild Scene IV. The Coal-mine Joe, Jack, Bert?three old miners and two boys Final Scene. Same as first scene Cho-Cho, Everychild, Mother, Father. Old group of children and new group with Everychild PROLOGUE BY CHO-CHO Good people This is the Play of Everychild With Cho-Cho As Author and Manager. The play has defects? It has good points? And bad points? Like the world itself? Like life Perhaps the author of the world Is something like me, A little grotesque, A little whimsical, Serious often, Sometimes all the more serious Seen through a Fool's words With cap and jingle of bells. In this droll world There are lots of children Who are the children of fools? Like me. Good people I bespeak your patience With Everychild Daughter of a Clown. EVERYCHILD Scene I: Stage dark as curtain rises. Moderate starlight and quiet music of cradle-song type. Little fairies come out dancing in the darkness with firefly lamps and sing the following cradle song: Some one is sleeping Out in the dark Where fireflies glimmer Spark upon spark. Some little stranger Come from afar Under the glory Of moon and of star. Deep in the blossoms That drift as they fall Some one is sleeping And stirs not at all. Sleep, little stranger The night is near gone; Sleep, little stranger, But dream of the dawn The dim light reveals a dark figure lying on the m...
Synopsis
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.