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ELECTRICAL PLOT ACT I-- Rise dark, two blue pan lights back of window, two baby spots off left; one focussed on bed and the other on door down R.1. Red fire-escape light shows door R. when opened. Night lamp on table near bed. ACT II-- Lights full up, white and amber, strip light off door right. Lights straw for sun effect at back. ACT III-- Blue on back drop. Stage full up, amber and white. Strips off right and left. Large lamp on newell post at foot of stairs. Stage dark at lamp crash. ACT IV-- Stage dark, blue baby spot for moonlight, through window right. Blue on back drop. Fire glow, half up with lanterns on your foots and borders. * * * * * Clarence Comedy in 4 acts by Booth Tarkington. 5 males, 5 females. 2 interiors. Costumes, modern. Plays 2-1/2 hours. One of the "five million", Clarence served where he was sent--though it was no further than Texas. As an entomologist he found--on this side of the ocean--no field for his specialty, so they set him to driving mules. Now, reduced to civil life and seeking a job, he finds a position in the home of one Wheeler, a wealthy man with a family. And because he'd "been in the army" he becomes guide, philosopher and friend to the members of that distracted family group. Clarence's position is an anomolous one. He mends the plumbing, tunes the piano, types--off stage--and plays the saxophone. And around him revolves such a group of characters as only Booth Tarkington could offer. It is a real American comedy, at which the audience ripples with appreciative and delighted laughter. Those marvelous young people, Cora and Bobby, are portrait sketches warranted to appeal to everyone. Royalty, $25.00. Price, 75 cents. The Charm School Comedy in 3 acts by Alice Duer Miller and Robert Milton. 6 males, 10 females. (May be played by 5 males and 8 females). (Any number of school girls may be used in the ensembles). 2 interiors. Costumes, modern. Plays 2-1/2 hours. A young automobile salesman just out of his 'teens inherits a girl's school and insists on running it himself, according to his own ideas, chief of which is that the dominant feature in the education of the young girl of today should be CHARM. In the end the young man gives up the school and promises to wait until the youngest of
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