Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Constance D'Arcy Mackay
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PRISCILLA MULLINS SPINNING: TABLEAU The same woodland setting as has been used for Pocahontas. In the center of the stage Priscilla and her spinning-wheel. The scene is outside her dooryard at Plymouth, Mass., in the Spring of 1621. The tableau should be held a full minute. Appropriate music: Senta's "Spinning Song"; or Solvig's "Spinning Song" from Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: JOURNEYMAN CHARACTERS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, a young printer ROGER BURCHARD, a Quaker ELIZABETH BURCHARD, his wife DEBORAH READ WILLIAM, an inn boy SCENE: A room in a tavern. Place: Philadelphia. Time, October, 1723. The room is a private one in the tavern known as The Crooked Billet. It has a neat, cheerful, welcoming aspect. At left a small fire glimmers on the brass andirons of a well-kept hearth. A brass kettle rests on a hob. On the shelf above the hearth candles are alight. All across the background are a series of small windows curtained in |
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