item: #1 of 10
          id: 14508
      author: Knapp, Shepherd
       title: The Christmas Dinner
        date: None
       words: 8802
      flesch: 92
     summary: A good many wonderful things happen to you when you grow old, and even if my old body does get pretty tired sometimes, and you children think perhaps that grandfather looks very stupid, sitting so quiet by the fire-side here, I'm often thinking, inside, of splendid things that little boys and girls don't know anything about. Then, close behind one another, they go under the table, and when they come out at the other end, Father and Grandfather have turned into little boys, and Mother and Grandmother have turned into little girls.
    keywords: children; gertrude; grandfather; mother; table; walter
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        item: #2 of 10
          id: 14785
      author: Knapp, Shepherd
       title: Down the Chimney
        date: None
       words: 4857
      flesch: 96
     summary: Keep your eyes open to see what will happen next, for here comes_ JACK FROST, _who is dressed all in white. Then_ JACK FROST _continues_:
    keywords: chimney; fairies; grandmother; snow; wind
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        item: #3 of 10
          id: 14786
      author: Knapp, Shepherd
       title: Up the Chimney
        date: None
       words: 6792
      flesch: 98
     summary: Then_ JACK _reads_: Fairy spectacles are we; Put us on, and you shall see Things you never saw before, Easy as saying four-times-four. What are you thinking of, Doctor John? I am thinking, _says_ FATHER _smiling_, that if you hadn't come, we should have missed you dreadfully.
    keywords: claus; jack; mary; mother; polly; santa
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        item: #4 of 10
          id: 19826
      author: Hare, Walter Ben
       title: The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays
        date: None
       words: 49428
      flesch: 98
     summary: The counting house of_ SCROOGE _and_ MARLEY. HULDA _is seated on a small stool down R., taking care of_ KLINKER _and_ SCHWILLIE WILLIE WINKUM, _who are standing near her.
    keywords: anita; big; boy; children; christmas; claus; come; cratchit; day; dumpling; eddie; frost; good; googin; hat; head; jack; kitty; know; little; long; man; mary; merry; mrs; mulligan; o'toole; rear; red; right; santa; scrooge; spirit; stage; table; time; tomasso; tootsy; want; warren; white; wishing
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        item: #5 of 10
          id: 20425
      author: Ewing, Juliana Horatia
       title: The Peace Egg and Other tales
        date: None
       words: 33607
      flesch: 87
     summary: [_Enter_ FATHER CHRISTMAS.] FATHER CHRISTMAS Here comes I, old Father Christmas; Welcome, or welcome not, I hope poor old Father Christmas Will never be forgot! Besides getting everything belonging to your dress together _yourself_ and in _good time_, I advise you to have _a little hand-basket_, such as you may have used at the seaside or in the garden, and into this to put _pins_, _hair-pins_, _a burnt cork_, _needles and thread_, _a pair of scissors_, _a pencil_, _your part_, _and any small things you may require_.
    keywords: captain; children; christmas; dear; doctor; dragon; father; fool; gentleman; george; good; hand; harry; head; man; mrs; patty; peace; people; play; robin; room; round; sarah; skratdj; snap; stage; tell; thought; time; way; wife
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        item: #6 of 10
          id: 40729
      author: Dickens, Charles
       title: "Old Scrooge": A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Celebrated Christmas Story.
        date: None
       words: 14802
      flesch: 99
     summary: Uncle Scrooge, uncle Scrooge! (_Scrooge seems to make efforts to reply to the toast, while spirit drags him away._) CURTAIN. My wife, your niece--Yes, you may. (_Scrooge kisses her._)
    keywords: bob; christmas; cratchit; day; fred; good; little; man; merry; mrs; scene; scro; scrooge; spirit; time
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        item: #7 of 10
          id: 41739
      author: Barnett, C. Z. (Charles Zachary)
       title: A Christmas Carol; Or, The Miser's Warning! (Adapted from Charles Dickens' Celebrated Work.)
        date: None
       words: 11078
      flesch: 96
     summary: _Enter DARK SAM, L. H._ SAM. _Enter FRANK, L. H._ FRANK.
    keywords: bob; christmas; cratchit; day; frank; ghost; good; man; merry; mrs; scr; scrooge; spirit; time
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        item: #8 of 10
          id: 48832
      author: Baker, George M. (George Melville)
       title: The Merry Christmas of the Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe
        date: None
       words: 3128
      flesch: 91
     summary: Song:_ CHILDREN, _outside; air_, _Oh, dear, what can the matter be?_ Oh, dear, what can the matter be? The largest hangs on to her skirts, the next in size to the largest, until they dwindle to the smallest; repeat song as they enter slowly, turn to_ R., _march across stage; turn to_ L., _march across again; turn to_ R., _and form across stage.
    keywords: acts; children; costumes; evening; females; santa; shoe
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        item: #9 of 10
          id: 51180
      author: Fisher, Blanche Proctor
       title: Santa Claus Gets His Wish: A Christmas Play in One Act For Young Children
        date: None
       words: 5143
      flesch: 92
     summary: The Air Spy 12 4 1-1/2 hrs. 35c $10.00 Bachelor Hall 8 4 2 35c $5.00 The College Chap 11 7 2-1/2 35c Free The Colonel's Maid 6 3 2 35c Daddy 4 4 1-1/2 35c The Deacon's Second Wife 6 6 2-1/2 35c The District Attorney 10 6 2 35c The Dutch Detective 5 5 2 35c At the Sign of the Shooting Star 10 10 2 35c The Elopement of Ellen 4 3 2 35c Engaged by Wednesday 5 11 1-1/2 35c The Chuzzlewitts, or Tom Pinch 15 6 2-1/4 35c For One Night Only 5 4 2 25c Hamilton 11 5 2 60c $25.00 Constantine Pueblo Jones 10 4 2-1/4 35c Free Excuse Me 4 6 1-1/4 35c The Hoodoo 6 12 2 35c The Hurdy Gurdy Girl 9 9 2 35c Katy Did 4 8 1-1/2 35c Let's Get Married 3 5 2 60c $10.00 London Assurance 10 3 2 25c Free Lost a Chaperon 6 9 2 35c A Foul Tip 7 3 2 35c The Man Who Went 7 3 2-1/2 35c $10.00 The Man Without a Country 6 5 1-1/2 25c Free Master Pierre Patelin 4 1 1-1/2 60c How Jim Made Good 7 3 2 25c Just Plain Mary 7 13 2 35c Line Busy 5 19 1-1/2 35c Mr. Bob 3 4 1-1/2 25c Mrs. Briggs of the Poultry Yard 4 7 2 35c Nathan Hale 15 4 2-1/2 60c $10.00 Patty Makes Things Hum 4 6 2 35c Free Professor Pepp 8 8 2-1/2 35c A Regiment of Two 6 4 2 35c The Private Tutor 5 3 2 35c The Rivals 9 5 2-1/2 25c Silas Marner 19 4 1-1/2 25c When a Feller Needs a Friend 5 5 2-1/4 35c $10.00 Sally Lunn 3 4 1-1/2 25c Free The School for Scandal 12 4 2-1/2 25c She Stoops to Conquer 15 4 2-1/2 25c Step Lively 4 10 2 35c The Submarine Shell 7 4 2 35c $10.00 The Thirteenth Star -- 9 1-1/2 35c Free The Time of His Life 6 3 2-1/2 35c Tommy's Wife 3 5 1-1/2 35c The Twig of Thorn 6 7 1-1/2 75c The Amazons 7 5 2-1/2 60c $10.00 The Conjurer 8 4 2-1/4 35c $10.00 BAKER, Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. Santa Claus Gets His Wish A Christmas Play in One Act For Young Children By BLANCHE PROCTOR FISHER _ 35c None Anita's Trial -- 11 2 35c The Farmerette -- 7 2 35c Behind the Scenes -- 12 1-1/2 35c The Camp Fire Girls -- 15 2 35c A Case for Sherlock Holmes -- 10 1-1/2 35c The House In Laurel Lane -- 6 1-1/2 25c Her First Assignment -- 10 1 25c I Grant You Three Wishes -- 14 1/2 25c Joint Owners in Spain -- 4 1/2 35c $5.00 Marrying Money -- 4 1/2 25c None The Original Two Bits -- 7 1/2 25c The Over-Alls Club -- 10 1/2 25c Leave it to Polly -- 11 1-1/2 35c The Rev. Peter Brice, Bachelor -- 7 1/2 25c Miss Fearless & Co. -- 10 2 35c A Modern Cinderella -- 16 1-1/2 35c Theodore, Jr. -- 7 1/2 25c Rebecca's Triumph -- 16 2 35c Aboard a Slow Train In Mizzoury 8 14 2-1/2 35c Twelve Old Maids -- 15 1 25c An Awkward Squad 8 -- 1/4 25c The Blow-Up of Algernon Blow 8 -- 1/2 25c The Boy Scouts 20 -- 2 35c A Close Shave 6 -- 1/2 25c The First National Boot 7 2 1 25c A Half-Back's Interference 10 -- 3/4 25c His Father's Son 14 -- 1-3/4 35c The Man With the Nose 8 -- 3/4 25c On the Quiet 12 -- 1-1/2 35c The People's Money 11 -- 1-3/4 25c A Regular Rah!
    keywords: 25c; 35c; children; claus; girl; imp; man; sand; santa; wish
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        item: #10 of 10
          id: 58546
      author: Carter, Elsie Hobart
       title: Christmas Candles: Plays for Boys and Girls
        date: None
       words: 72863
      flesch: 98
     summary: [_Enter_ CROSS JACOB _(L.). _ TIBBIE _chooses gravely, then speaks with her mouth full.
    keywords: babushka; boys; children; christmas; claus; day; dear; dick; door; dot; exit; father; fire; gillian; good; hands; head; home; house; lady; little; look; marie; mistress; mother; mrs; myles; peter; play; poor; prince; rafe; right; roger; sally; santa; sir; stage; table; ted; tell; thee; things; think; tibbie; time; toinette; tom; tree; way; white; window; wish; work
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