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The Christmas Dinner
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Title: The Christmas Dinner
Author: Shepherd Knapp
Release Date: December 29, 2004 [eBook #14508]
Language: English
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THE CHRISTMAS DINNER
by
SHEPHERD KNAPP
The Heidelberg Press Publishers for Discriminators Fifteenth and Race Streets, Philadelphia
1921
TO THOSE WHO FIRST ACTED IN THIS PLAY TO THOSE WHO WITH SO MUCH SKILL AND PATIENCE TRAINED THE PARTICIPANTS AND TO THE FRIENDLY AUDIENCES OF BOYS AND GIRLS WHO ENCOURAGE US BY THEIR APPLAUSE IT IS DEDICATED
Preface
This play is intended, not only for acting, but also for reading. It is so arranged that boys and girls can read it to themselves, just as they would read any other story. Even the stage directions and the descriptions of scenery are presented as a part of the narrative. At the same time, by the use of different styles of type, the speeches of the characters are clearly distinguished from the rest of the text, an arrangement which will be found convenient when parts are being memorized for acting.
The play has been acted more than once, and by different groups of people; sometimes on a stage equipped with footlights, curtain, and scenery; so