CONTENTS
The White Christmas (8 Male, 7 Female Adults) 13
Anita's Secret or Christmas in the Steerage
(1 Male Adult, 9 Boys, 7 Girls) 49
Christmas With the Mulligan's (2 Female Adults,
5 Boys, 5 Girls) 93
The Wishing Man (4 Male Adults, 13 Boys,
7 Girls) 131
A Christmas Carol or the Miser's Yuletide
Dream (10 Male, 5 Female Adults, 4 Boys,
4 Girls) 167
Her Christmas Hat (4 Male, 5 Female Adults) 203
THE WHITE CHRISTMAS
[Illustration:
JOSEPH MARY SIMEON
TIMOTHY ISAAC ANNA THOMAS
RUTH RACHEL DEBORAH PRISCILLA
MELCHOIR GASPAR BALTASAR PROLOGUE]
THE WHITE CHRISTMAS
A CHRISTMAS MORALITY PLAY IN ONE ACT.
_Originally produced by the Quadrangle Club of the University of
Missouri, Christmas Eve, 1909._
CHARACTERS.
MARY _The Maiden Mother_
JOSEPH _Of the House of David_
SIMEON _An Old Shepherd_
TIMOTHY _A Shepherd, the Husband of Anna_
ISAAC _A Young Shepherd_
ANNA _The Wife of Timothy, the Shepherd_
THOMAS _Her Little Son_
RUTH _Her Little Daughter_
DEBORAH _Hostess of an Inn at Bethlehem_
RACHEL _A Maiden of Bethlehem_
PRISCILLA _Her Cousin_
MELCHOIR }
GASPAR } _The Wise Men from the East._
BALTASAR }
_A Concealed Choir. The Prologue._
_For description of costumes, arrangement of the scene, etc., see
"Remarks on the Production" at the end of the play._
TIME OF PLAYING--_About One Hour._
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SCENE I: _Before the play begins the_ PROLOGUE _steps in front of the
curtains and addresses the congregation._
PROLOGUE.
The earth has grown old with its burden of care,
But at Christmas it always is young,
The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair,
And its soul, full of music, bursts forth on the air,
When the song of the angels is sung.
It is coming, Old Earth, it is coming tonight!
On the snowflakes which cover thy sod
The feet of the Christ Child fall gentle and white,
And the voice of the Christ Child tells out with delight,
That mankind are the children of God.
