The three beasts wear masks of white cloth stretched over a foundation of cardboard or buckram. WOLF wears a blue-and-white striped jerkin over blue leggings bound with white, and a big gray tail, fastened to a belt. BEAR has a padded gray coat over loose padded leggings. LION’S jerkin and hose are gray, with fringes and thongs of red. ] [Illustration: JOSEPH MARY SHEPHERDS JOSEPH, MARY and the SHEPHERDS wear semi-circular cloaks over long, loose under-robes. JOSEPH’S cape is white over a blue robe; MARY wears blue over white; the SHEPHERDS are in white. JOSEPH’S cap is blue with a white band; his lantern has star-shaped panes.] [Illustration: HOST OF HEROD HEROD CAPTAIN HEROD wears a triple gold crown and a heavy robe of scarlet on which is a black design edged with white buttons. His staff is gold. The drawings for the CAPTAIN and the HOST show the costume adapted to army use. The HOST wears a scarlet tunic over the Khaki; the CAPTAIN a great scarlet cloak edged with a scimitar design in white. The CAPTAIN’S shield is silver and black; the other, silver and scarlet.] [Illustration: BELSHASAR CASPAR MELCHIOR BELSHASAR: a cloak of blue, banded with white, over a long black robe; a high-crowned turban, blue and white. MELCHIOR: a blue cloak with zigzag trimmings of black and white, a black gown, a black-and-white helmet with a red hood. CASPAR wears a high-peaked hat of brilliant orange and a great orange cloak trimmed with bands of red and white and large white buttons. Underneath he wears a costume exactly like that of CLAUS: long high boots and a red jerkin trimmed with conventionalized holly leaves in green and edged with white fur. All three kings wear gold crowns.] [Illustration: FOLLOWERS OF BELSHASAR FOLLOWERS OF CASPAR FOLLOWERS OF MELCHIOR The costumes of the FOLLOWERS recall those of the three kings, but are more simply made: the FOLLOWERS OF BELSHASAR wear blue capes over black gowns, white hoods and tall, blue hats; the FOLLOWERS OF CASPAR wear coats of orange banded with white over green gowns sashed with red, and orange hats; the FOLLOWERS OF MELCHIOR have black gowns and blue capes with black-and-white designs like those on MELCHIOR’S costume.] [Illustration: SORROW SONG DEATH POVERTY SORROW, POVERTY and DEATH are in black and white. SONG wears white with bands of blue, and a wreath of white flowers in her hair. The FOLLOWERS have costumes cut exactly like those of their leaders, but of gray instead of white. The FOLLOWERS of SONG carry long silver trumpets.] [Illustration: RUTH CLAUS THE CHILDREN CHORUS B