RUTH wears a white jacket over a red bodice and a gray skirt over a black-and-white striped under-skirt. CLAUS has high boots, a red jerkin edged with white fur and a red cap also edged with white fur. There should be no green trimming on his jerkin. His costume and RUTH’S should be extremely ragged and the two children should be roughly wrapped in rags. CHORUS B wears a short red coat with white bands and a design of spear-heads on the shoulders. When this coat is removed at the end of the Masque, the white coat of CHORUS A is seen. This bears a tree in green on either shoulder.] Nearly all the other costumes consist of a simple, cloak-like undergarment, over which are worn tunics and robes to characterize the Host of Herod, the Shepherds, the Followers of the Three Kings, or the Outcasts. There is nothing realistic in these clothes: they merely _suggest_ the characters, broadly, as if they were made by children for a child’s play. They may be carried out by any dressmaker in inexpensive materials—muslin, cambric, cheesecloth, flannel—keeping always to a few brilliant, flat colors: strong red, strong blue, black and white, gray, and orange. Make these costumes yourselves: use your own ingenuity in cutting and draping them: wear them with a sense of what each costume means. Then your ceremony will be beautiful. New York, September, 1917. _ACTION OF “THE EVERGREEN TREE”_ The Masque is performed in Twelve Actions, taking place as follows: First Action: Stage A (Chorus; Speech). Second Action: Aisle I (Carol; Processional). Third Action: Stage A (Carol; Speech). Fourth Action: Approaching Space and Steps A; then Stage A (Chorus; Carols; Speech). Fifth Action: Stage B (Chorus; Speech). Sixth Action: Stage A (Chorus; Speech). Seventh Action: Aisle II (Carol; Processional). Eighth Action: Stage A (Carols; Speech). Ninth Action: Stage B and Aisle I (Choral Song; Chorus; Processional; Pantomime). Tenth Action: Stage A (Carol; Speech). Eleventh Action: Aisle I and Aisle II (Choral Song; Processional). Twelfth Action: Stage A (Chorus; Speech). ANNOUNCEMENTS IN REGARD TO THIS MASQUE THE MUSIC for the Choruses and Carols of “The Evergreen Tree” has been composed by ARTHUR FARWELL and is Published, with the Words of the Same, by THE JOHN CHURCH COMPANY 39 West 32nd Street, New York City. Price $1.50 THE PRODUCTION of the Masque can be adapted to any scale of expense, simple or elaborate, and to any practical number of participants, few or many. With a view to assisting any community, army camp, or naval station, to organize and adapt a production to its own local conditions, “A GUIDE TO ‘THE EVERGREEN TREE,’” a Series of QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS relating to all phases to the Masque’s production, has been compiled by PERCY J. BURRELL, under sanction of the Author, Composer and Costume Designer, and will be sent, by The John Church Company, on request, free of expense to any one interested.