A message from Mars : $b A fantastic comedy in three actsGanthony, Richard
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A message from Mars : $b A fantastic comedy in three acts
Ganthony, Richard
Dreams -- Drama; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama; Man-woman relationships -- Drama; Selfishness -- Drama
A fascinating comedy in three acts by Alice Duer Miller and Robert
Milton. 6 males, 10 females. (May be played by 5 males and 8 females).
Any number of school girls may be used in the ensembles. Scenes, two
interiors. Costumes, modern. Plays 2½ hours.
The story of “The Charm School” is familiar to Mrs. Miller’s readers. It
relates the adventures of a handsome young automobile salesman scarcely
out of his ’teens who, upon inheriting a girl’s boarding school from a
maiden aunt, insists on running it himself, according to his own ideas,
chief of which is, by the way, that the dominant feature in the education
of the young girl of to-day should be CHARM.
The situations that arise are teeming with humor—clean, wholesome humor.
In the end the young man gives up the school and promises to wait until
the most precocious of his pupils reaches a marriageable age.
“The Charm School” has the freshness of youth, the inspiration of an
extravagant but novel idea, the charm of originality, and the promise of
wholesome, sanely amusing, pleasant entertainment. We strongly recommend
it for high school production.
“The Charm School” was first produced at the Bijou Theatre, New York, and
then toured the country. Two companies are now playing it in England.
Price, 75 cents.
Daddy Long-Legs
A charming comedy in four acts, by Jean Webster. The full cast calls for
6 males, 7 females and 6 orphans, but the play, by the easy doubling of
some of the characters may be played by 4 males, 4 females and three
orphans. The orphans appear only in the first act and may be played by
small girls of any age. Four easy interior scenes. Costumes modern. Plays
2½ hours.
The New York Times reviewer, on the morning following the Broadway
production, wrote the following comment:
“If you will take your pencil and write down, one below the other, the
words delightful, charming, sweet, beautiful and entertaining, and then
draw a line and add them up, the answer will be ‘Daddy Long-Legs.’ To
that result you might even add brilliant, pathetic and humorous, but the
answer even then would be just what it was before—the play which Miss
Jean Webster has made from her book, ‘Daddy Long-Legs,’ and which was
presented at the Gaiety last night. To attempt to describe the simplicity
and beauty of ‘Daddy Long-Legs’ would be like attempting to describe the
first breath of Spring after an exceedingly tiresome and hard Winter.”
“Daddy Long-Legs” enjoyed a two-years’ run in New York and was then
toured for over three years, and is now published in play form for the
first time.
Price, 75 cents.
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Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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