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Lively plays for live people

Chapter 57: CHOICE PLAYS AND AMUSEMENT BOOKS.
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A collection of short stage pieces written for easy presentation, combining comedies, farces, a temperance sketch and a monologue. The scripts emphasize brisk action, comic misunderstandings and contrived situations—including twin confusions, romantic entanglements, practical jokes and a duel—populated by vivid stock characters and domestic foils. Each play supplies explicit stage directions, simple set and prop lists and flexible casting to suit amateur or local companies, with lengths ranging from brief farces to multi-act comedies that prioritize stage business and lively dialogue.

CHOICE PLAYS AND AMUSEMENT BOOKS.

Plays by T. S. DENISON.

That the plays written by T. S. Denison are, all things considered, the best for amateurs, is attested by their very large and increasing sale.

New plays in this type.

ACTS. TIME. M. F.
COMEDIES.
Odds With the Enemy, 5, 2 hrs. 7—4
Seth Greenback, 4, 1 h. 15 m. 7—3
The School Ma’am, 4, 1 h. 45 m. 6—5
Only Daughter, 3, 1 h. 15 m. 5—2
Louva, the Pauper, 5, 2 hrs. 9—4
Under the Laurels, 5, 2 hrs. 5—4
Danger Signal, 2, 1 h. 45 m. 7—4
Our Country, Historical Play, 3, 1 h. 10—5
Topp’s Twins, 4, 2 hrs. 6—4
It’s all in Pay Streak, 3, 1 h. 40 m. 4—3
The New Woman, 3, 1 h. 3—6
FARCES.
Initiating a Granger, 25 m. 8—  
Wanted, a Correspondent, 2, 45 m. 4—4
A Family Strike, 20 m. 3—3
Two Ghosts in White, 20 m. —8
The Assessor, 10 m. 3—2
Borrowing Trouble, 20 m. 3—5
Country Justice, 20 m. 8—  
The Pull-Back, 20 m. —6
Hans von Smash, 2, 30 m. 4—3
Irish Linen Peddler, 2, 40 m. 3—3
Kansas Immigrants, 20 m. 5—1
Too Much of Good Thing, 45 m. 3—6
Is the Editor In? 20 m. 4—2
Pets of Society, 20 m. —7
Wide Enough for Two, 45 m. 5—2
Patsy O’Wang, 35 m. 4—3
Rejected, 40 m. 5—3
A First-Class Hotel, 20 m. 4—  
Mad. Princeton’s Temple of Beauty, 20 m. —6
Dude in Cyclone, 20 m. 5—3
The Cobbler, 10 m. 1—  
TEMPERANCE.
The Sparkling Cup, 5, 2 hrs. 12—4
Hard Cider, 10 m. 4—2
Only Cold Tea, 20 m. 3—3

Topp’s Twins and It’s all in the Pay Streak, 25c. each. All others, 15c. each. Postpaid.

Large Catalogue Free.

DIALOGUES.
Friday Afternoon Dialogues.
Twenty-five original pieces, 25c.
When the Lessons are Over.
New Dialogues, New Drills. New Plays, 25c.
Dialogues from Dickens.
Thirteen Selections, 25c.
All Sorts of Dialogues.
Just out. Dialogues for youths, children, and little tots, also pieces for special occasions, 25c.
SPEAKERS.
Friday Afternoon Speaker.
For pupils of all ages, 25c.
Choice Pieces for Little People, 25c.
Patriotic Speaker.
Carefully selected from best authors, 25c.
Dialect Readings.
Irish, Dutch, Negro, Scotch, etc., 25c.
Sunday School Pieces, 25c.
Scrap-Book Recitations.
A choice collection of pieces, pathetic, humorous, descriptive, prose and poetry. Eleven Nos., per No. 25c.
TABLEAUX AND SHADOWS.
Shadow Pictures, Pantomimes,
Charades, and how to prepare them, 25c.
School and Parlor Tableaux.
For school, church and parlor, 25c.
Wax Figgers of Mrs. Jarley.
With full directions for preparing, 25c.
OPERETTAS.
Bonnybell, 25c.
Elma, the Fairy Child, 25c.
Eulalia, 25c.
Enchanted Wood, 35c
Pocahontas, 15c.
SPECIALTIES.
Private Theatricals.
How to select plays, form, cast, rehearsals, rain, lightning, etc., 25c.
Negro Minstrels.
Just the book needed. Tells the whole thing, 25c.
Work and Play.
A gem of a book for children in school or church entertainments, 25c.
Pranks and Pastimes.
All sorts of games, puzzles, shadow scenes, etc., for evening parties, 25c.
Social Card Games.
An excellent manual of all common games, also tricks and diversions, 35c.
Debater’s Handbook (cloth), 50c.
Good Manners, 25c.
Everybody’s Letter-Writer, 25c.

T. S. DENISON, Publisher, 163 Randolph St., Chicago.