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by Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden

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Title: Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act

Author: Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden

Release Date: March 8, 2005 [EBook #15290]

Language: English

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Why The Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act:
by Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden:

Adapted from the story of the same name:
by Raymond McDonald Alden

Samuel French: Publisher
25 West Forty-fifth Street: New York
LONDON

Samuel French, Ltd.
26 SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND

COPYRIGHT, 1915,
BY E.A. MCFADDEN

WHY THE CHIMES RANG.

This play is fully protected by copyright.

Permission to act, read publicly or make any use of it must be obtained
of Samuel French, 25 West 45th Street, New York. It may be presented by
amateurs upon payment of the following royalties:

1. This play may be presented by amateurs upon payment of a royalty of
Five Dollars for each performance, payable to Samuel French, at 25 West
45th Street, New York, or at 811 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, Calif.,
one week before the date when the play is given.

2. Professional rates quoted on application.

3. Whenever this play is to be produced the following note must appear
on all programs, printing and advertising for the play:

This play is a dramatization of the story by Raymond MacDonald Alden
entitled "WHY THE CHIMES RANG," published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company.

This version of Raymond MacDonald Alden's story is published with
permission of the Bobbs-Merrill Company of Indianapolis, Indiana, the
publishers of Professor Alden's story and the holders of the copyright.

_WARNING_

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PREFACE.

This little play is prentice work done in Professor George P. Baker's
class, English 47 at