Ernest Godfrey Hoffsten
Published: 2015-07-03
Total Pages: 30
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Excerpt from A Department Store Santa Claus a Christmas Play, in Three Scenes and a Tableau Having erected the window and door frames, cover the entire space with a screen of dark stiff paper or cloth, leaving the window and door spaces open. Allow for entrances at the extreme right and left sides. The door frame should have a swinging door inserted and the window front should be covered with mosquito netting. Across the back of the window stretch burlap or heavy cloth or paper, capable of holding toys and Christmas decorations, suspended upon it. The baseboard of the window, twelve inches deep, allows space for the installation of lighting effects, incandescent lamps being the best and safest. The front platform represents the sidewalk. The name of the firm, "Dobs and Snobs," should be lettered above the window frame. Footlights add very much to the effectiveness of the scene. The second and third scenes present an easy interior. Emphasis should be placed upon the fire place, allowing an opening large enough through which Santa Claus and his angel children may enter. One entrance is sufficient for this room, for which the door used in Scene I is suitable. In order to add to the illusion of the Santa Claus-Fairy scene of the Tableau, it is effective to drop a curtain of neutral-tinted (gray or light brown) netting across the front of the stage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.