Price 25 Cents The Vampire Cat By GERARD VAN ETTEN SERGEL'S ACTING DRAMA No. 641 ART WORKERS LEAGUE PUBLISHED BY THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES H SERGEL, PRESIDENT Practical Instructions for Private Theatricals By W. D. EMERSON Author of "A Country Romance," "The Unknown Rival," "Humble Pie," etc. Price, 25 cents Here is a practical hand-book, describing in detail all the accessories, properties, scenes and apparatus necessary for an amateur production. In addition to the descriptions in words, everything is clearly shown in the numerous pictures, more than one hundred being inserted in the book. No such useful book has ever been offered to the amateur players of any country. CONTENTS Chapter I. =Introductory Remarks.= Chapter II. =Stage, How to Make, etc.= In drawing-rooms or parlors, with sliding or hinged doors. In a single large room. The Curtain; how to attach it, and raise it, etc. Chapter III. =Arrangement of Scenery.= How to hang it. Drapery, tormentors, wings, borders, drops. Chapter IV. =Box Scenes.= Center door pieces, plain wings, door wings, return pieces, etc. Chapter V. =How to Light the Stage.= Oil, gas and electric light. Footlights, Sidelights, Reflectors. How to darken the stage, etc. Chapter VI. =Stage Effects.= Wind, Rain, Thunder, Breaking Glass, Falling Buildings, Snow, Water, Waves, Cascades, Passing Trains, Lightning, Chimes, Sound of Horses' Hoofs, Shots. Chapter VII. =Scene Painting.= Chapter VIII. =A Word to the Property Man.= Chapter IX. =To the Stage Manager.= Chapter X. =The Business Manager.= Address Orders to THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS THE VAMPIRE CAT A PLAY IN ONE ACT FROM THE JAPANESE LEGEND OF THE NABESHIMA CAT BY GERARD VAN ETTEN COPYRIGHT, 1918 BY THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY CAST OF CHARACTERS PRINCE HIZEN, LORD OF NABESHIMA.... BUZEN, HIS CHIEF COUNCILLOR........ RUITEN, A PRIEST................... ITO SODA, A COMMON SOLDIER......... KASHIKU, A MAID.................... O TOYO, WIFE OF THE PRINCE......... TIME: Medieval Japan. SCENE: The room of O Toyo in the palace. TIME OF ACTION: Between 10 and 12 p.m. NOTE.--According to the old Japanese legend, the soul of a cat can enter a human being. THE VAMPIRE CAT