If the patriotic play is produced in the right way it should contain the very essence of democracy--_efficient team-work, a striving together for the good of the whole_. It should lead to the ransacking of books and libraries; the planning of scene-setting, whether indoor or outdoor; the fashioning of simple and accurate costumes by the young people taking part; the collecting of suitable stage properties such as hearthbrooms, Indian pipes, and dishes of pewter. The greater the research, the keener the stimulus for imagination and ingenuity, two things that go to the making of every successful production. Fortunately, the patriotic play is inherently simple, its appeal is along broad general lines, so that it requires no great amount of money or energy to adequately produce it. And, as history is made up not of one event, but of a series of events, so an historical pageant is a logical sequence of one-act patriotic plays or episodes. The one-act patriotic play shows one hero or one event; the pageant shows, through one-act plays used in chronological order, the development and upbuilding of America through the lives of her heroes. In its pageant form, the patriotic play, with dances, songs, pantomime, and spoken speech, lends itself to schools, communities, and city use, in park, in armory, and on village green: in its one-act form it lends itself to both indoor and outdoor production by schools, patriotic societies, clubs and settlements, and, last, but not least, the home circle. And in the hope of assisting teachers and producers to fit appropriate plays to appropriate occasions notes on the subject have been added to the individual plays in the table of contents. THE PAGEANT OF PATRIOTS (Outdoor) THE PAGEANT OF PATRIOTS EPISODES 1. PROLOGUE BY THE SPIRIT OF PATRIOTISM 2. PRINCESS POCAHONTAS 3. PILGRIM INTERLUDE 4. FERRY FARM EPISODE 5. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FORTUNE 6. DANIEL BOONE: PATRIOT 7. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EPISODE Scene 1. Benjamin Franklin and the Crystal Gazer (1720) The Dream Begins Scene 2. Benjamin Franklin at the Court of France (1781) The Dream Ends 8. ABRAHAM LINCOLN EPISODE 9. FINAL TABLEAU 10. MARCH OF PLAYERS PROLOGUE _Spoken by The Spirit of Patriotism_