MR. FEZZIWIG--Low shoes with pasteboard buckles covered with tinfoil. Short black trousers. White stockings. Fancy colonial coat and hat. White colonial wig. A short, stout man of middle age. Always laughing, moving around, etc. MRS. FEZZIWIG--Middle-aged lady in gay colonial tuck-up dress. White colonial wig. EBENEZER and DICK--Two young men in colonial costume. No wigs. THE FIDDLER--White wig and whiskers. Long white smock. Hat trimmed with ribbons. BELLA--Neat colonial costume of pink and white. Hair in curls. THE CRATCHIT FAMILY--Old-fashioned costumes, faded and worn, but bright with cheap lace and gay ribbons. Peter wears a large white collar. HER CHRISTMAS HAT [Illustration: WARREN WILLIAMS KITTY, HIS WIFE MISS MINERVA MOCKRIDGE MAGINNIS GOOGIN EDDIE MRS HONORIA GOOGIN MRS LAURA LACEY HOGAN HARD TIMES ANNIE] HER CHRISTMAS HAT A FARCE IN ONE ACT. CHARACTERS. WARREN WILLIAMS _A Young Architect_ KITTY _His Wife_ MISS MINERVA MOCKRIDGE _From Kankakee_ MAGINNIS GOOGIN _The Janitor of the Apartment_ MRS. HONORIA GOOGIN _His Wife_ EDDIE _The Elevator Boy_ MRS. LAURA LACEY _Kitty's Chum_ HOGAN _A Policeman_ HARD TIMES ANNIE _A Beggar_ * * * * * TIME OF PLAYING--_About Forty-five Minutes._ * * * * * SCENE: _Living room in an apartment house. Furnishings as desired. Several Christmas wreaths adorn the room._ KITTY _is discovered comfortably seated down L. reading a fashion magazine. The door bell at R. rings._ KITTY. Come in. _Enter_ EDDIE, _the colored elevator boy. He carries several Christmas packages._ EDDIE. Yas'm, I'm in. KITTY. Eddie! EDDIE. Yas'm, it's me. I 'clare I's loaded up like a reg'lar old Santa Claus. (_Laughs loudly._) Yas'm, I sure am. KITTY. Anything for us, Eddie? EDDIE. Two packages for you and one for Mr. Williams. Santa Claus is sure liberal to you-all. KITTY (_taking the three packages_). Thank you, Eddie. EDDIE (_briskly_). I don't usually bring up de mail, Mis' Williams, but this is Christmas Day and mos' everybody is anxious to git all dat's comin' to 'em. I knows I is. KITTY. Have you had a merry Christmas, Eddie? EDDIE. No'm, not yet. All I got is a yaller and green striped necktie from (_insert local name_). He's been wearin' it for more'n a year. KITTY (_has opened smaller package_). Oh, it's from Rannie Stewart. (_Takes off tissue paper, disclosing a small bit of white embroidery tied with a huge pink bow._) Mercy! Another pin-cushion cover. That makes six I have already. Cost about twenty cents, and I sent her a perfectly lovely doily embroidered with scarlet forget-me-nots. I'll never send Rannie Stewart another present as long as I live. (_Throws box and wrappings into waste basket._) Pink! And she knows my rooms are in blue and yellow. Eddie! EDDIE. Yas'm.