»S 635 .Z9 )417 Dopy 1 HE WHITE CHIEF BY CLARA J. DENTON. PRICE 15 CENTS Eldridge Entertainment House Franklin, Ohio A HIT ON YOUR NEXT PROGRAM! Something Out of The Ordinary In High-Glass Humorous Songs. MUSICAL SKETCHES FOR YOUNG LADIES By Harry C. Eldridge These fill an urgent need in supplying musical numbers with action, for any secular program, for girls or ladies of any age. Clever words and singable music combined to make novel numbers for your entertainment THE HAT OF OTHER DAYS. Everyone knows how ridiculous the changing styles make out-of- date hats appear. The song is based on this fact, and the appearance of these "hats of other days" will cause loads of merriment "1 CAN'T DO A THING WITH MY HAIR SINCE IT'S WASHED." Did you ever hear the above expression ? They all say it. This song is for a merry group of girls who have trouble in keeping their hair in bounds. A jolly song. REDUCED TO $1.99. The figures in a dry goods show window are indignant at having to par- ticipate in so many "reduction sales," and, revolting, walk off the stage after telling their troubles in song. The eccentric motions of these figures make a very laughable number. THE WINNING WAYS OF GRANDMA'S DAYS. Sung in costume, this portrays the many welcome and pleasing costumes of "ye olden times." Di- rections for minuet included. Very enjoyable. Any one of the above seit postpaid on receipt of 25 cents. ELDRIDGE ENTERTAINMENT HOUSE Franklin, Ohio The White Chief- A Thanksgiving Playlet By CLARA J. DENTON. Copyright, 1915. Eldridge Entertainment House. Eldridge Entertainment House. FRANKLIN, OHIO. Characters. CHARACTERS. (Mentioned in order of speaking.) JANE, the maid. ELLEN, eldest married daughter of Mrs. Gordon. MRS. GORDON, widow whose only son was stolen by Indians on Thanksgiving morning thirty years before the play opens. MARY, Mrs. Gordon's second married daughter. NELLIE, child of Ellen. TOMMIE, child of Mary. LOUISE, a cousin. FANNIE, another cousin. UNCLE PETER, an old friend of the family. THE "WHITE CHIEF." Other friends and relatives of the family, as many as desired. Ordinary costumes suited to the occasion are worn. ^CI.D 42H03 TMP92-009 089 DEC 20 1915 The White Chief. SCENE. The dining-room in a farm house. The following characters are discovered: Jane, El- len, Mrs. Gordon, Mary, Nellie, Tommie, Louise and Fannie. Jane stands near long table holding a pile of din- ner plates. Ellen and Mary are adjusting a table- cloth on the table. Mrs. Gordon is seated in a rocker at right. Martha in a child's rocker near her, hold- ing a doll. Tommie on floor at center, looking at a picture book. The two cousins on a sofa at left. During the dialogue the sisters are setting the table. Jane, after depositing the plates on the table, re- tires to the kitchen for more dishes, etc. This business is continued naturally as long as necessary. Jane. These plates were on the top shelf of the cupboard and they had to be washed. Ellen. Mother hasn't used them for a long time, but when we have a dinner like the one we have planned for today, we need the largest plates we can get. Thanksgiving dinners don't go very well on tea plates. Mrs. G. Thanksgiving without snow doesn't go very well either, but we have to put up with it. I wonder how it would seem to have an old-fashioned Michigan Thanksgiving. Ellen. Yes, mother, our Michigan weather has changed wonderfully and I do wish you would change a little by not working every minute of your life. Come, do put your knitting away. Mary. Yes, mother, it will make my Thanks- giving day much more thankful if you spend part of it in sitting with folded hands. Mrs. G. You shouldn't say that when you know I am happy only when I am working. Ellen. Yes, sister, and you forget that there is probably a baby somewhere among the Gordon rela- tives who hasn't more than half a dozen socks to its poor little bare feet. There is one thing sure, if any of the kiddies get the stomach ache because of cold feet it will not be your fault, mother dear. Sister, see, is this the proper way to place the knives and forks? Mary. Oh, my, no. That way is all out of style. Ellen. Why, that used to be just the thing. Mary. I know it, but our next door neighbor was visiting in the city last week and the cousin of her hostess went to a perfectly swell banquet and the knives and forks and spoons were all placed like this, (changes them) that other way is countrified now. Louise (rising and coming toward the table.) Well, lets have them that way then, I like country ways for country folks. Fannie. Well, I don't, I think country folks have as much right to city ways as the city folks themselves. Nellie. Grandma, I wish you would knit some socks for my newest doll, will you? Mrs. G. Yes, dear, just as soon as I finish this pair. Nellie . But my doll is barefoot, (holds her up showing bare feet,) don't you feel sorry for her? Tommie. Oh, Grandma, if you're sorry for her dolly what must you think of this poor little Indian boy, (holds up picture book) see here, grandma, he is barefoot out in the snow. I didn't know Indians went barefoot in the winter. (Ellen and Mary stop working with startled faces. Mrs. G. rises quickly, exits L.) Mary. Didn't you know any better, Tommie, than to talk to grandma on Thanksgiving day about Indians? Tommy. Oh, say Ma, I forgot all about her little baby boy. Nellie. Tommie has the biggest forgettery you you ever saw. Louise. But why does she mind more on Thanks- giving day than on other days? Ellen. Dear me, don't you remember it was on Thanksgiving morning when my baby brother dis- appeared? Louise. Oh, dear, was it? How did it happen? Do you know, I have never heard the whole story yet. Fannie. {Rising and coming toward table.) Neither have I. Tommy. Oh say, aunt Ellen, tell it, won't you? Nellie. Yes, do ma, 'cause if Tommie hears it all maybe he'll know better than to say Indians on Thanksgiving day. I know better than that, don't I ma? Tommie. Nellie thinks she's awfully smart. Mary. Come now children, don't quarrel on Thanksgiving day. Fannie. Go on Ellen, with your story. Ellen. Well, it is a short, sad story soon told. It was thirty years ago this Thanksgiving morning and we were to have our nearest neighbors in for a big Thanksgiving dinner. That was in the early days of Michigan, you know, when the neighbors lived to- gether happily and took turns in making feasts for one another. As soon as we were done eating break- fast, on that Thanksgiving morning, mother said she would go to the barn and get the vegetables ready for dinner so that she could leave the refuse in the pigpen near by. Mary and I were to wash the dishes. We gathered them up and carried them in- to the pantry. Just as we began our little brother waked up and father took him up and dressed him. Mary. Yes, I can see yet just how he looked when he peaked through the crack in the pantry door at me, but go on, Ellen, you can tell the story better than I can. Ellen. He was a great mother boy and he be- gan teasing for her before he was dressed. Father thought it would be a fine surprise for mother to let the baby go to the barn after her, so as soon as he was dressed, he bundled him up and told him that mother was at the barn. He was a sturdy little fel- low and went there every day of his life, but he had never before gone quite alone. Louise. Was the barn far away? Ellen. Yes, about ten rods away, but in plain sight on a hill, there was a little hollow between the house and barn, where the baby could not be seen for a moment or so. Just as he came to the top of the hollow, father smelled mother's pies burning, he ran to look after them and when he went back to the window the baby was out of sight. So taking it for granted that the baby was with mother he paid no more attention to the matter. Mary. You must remember that Ellen and I could not see the barn from the pantry window. Ellen. It was a long time before mother returned to the house, she had cut up a squash, hunted the eggs, looked after the chickens and so on, and when she did come back to the house the baby was not only not with her, but she said she had not seen him. All. Oh! oh! how dreadful! Fannie. But how did they know the Indians had taken the little fellow? Mary. Some strange Indians had been seen pass- ing along the road that morning. There were plenty of friendly Indians living in the neighborhood at that time and they helped father hunt for our brother, but we never found any trace of either our brother or the strange Indians. Louise. And you never have found any trace of him at all? Mary. Never. Father spent a great deal of money traveling around and advertising, but it did no good. A few months after father died when the lit- tle boy had been gone many years we read in a paper about some Indians away out west who had a white man for their chief, but at that time we didn't have money enough to go off on a search like that. Ellen. We might go now, if we knew the name of the place, but we burned the paper so that grand- ma couldn't see it. Tommy. Well, you just wait until I'm a man, HI go off and find that white chief, he'd be my uncle Will, wouldn't he? Nellie. And mine too. I'm going with you when you go after him. Tommy. Huh, girls can't go where the Indians are. Nellie. They can too, guess I'd know my uncle Will when I saw him, jus's much's you would. Ellen. There now, children don't talk about In- dians, especially before grandma and on Thanksgiv- ing day. Fannie. It's a wonder your mother will keep Thanksgiving at all. Mary. She never did until since father died, but now she seems to want us all together at least once a year. Tommy. Well, when I'm a man I'll find the White Chief, I'll go all over where there are any In- dians, and if I see a white man there I'll go right up to him and say, hello uncle Will! (All laugh.) Ellen. Well, there now, I believe the table is all set. Mary. Yes, and the dinner is all ready, it's time the folks were here. Nellie. (Running to windoiv R.) Oh ! there they are, a whole carriage load, and there's uncle Peter, my I'm glad! Tommy. (Running to window.) So am I, he's so funny, he'll tell us all about the Jabberwocky. Ellen. Run and get the slippers out of the closet, Nellie, so they'll be handy for Uncle Peter. Nellie. (Going up and exit. ) But how can they be handy when they go on his feet? Guess they'll be footy. Tommy. And there's another great tall man I never saw before, he has black hair and he looks just like my grandfather's picture. All. (Running to window .) What? what? Ellen. Do you suppose it can be? Mary. Oh! what will mother say? There, they are all coming in. (Enter relatives, White Chief last, business of greeting.) Uncle Peter. (Pointing to White Chief.) Have you any idea who this is? Ellen. He seems like father come back again. Mary. (Going close to him.) You certainly do look like father. White Chief. I am your long lost brother, girls. It was a long road to the barn, wasn't it? Ellen. What will mother say? Mary. I fear she will die of joy. Uncle Peter, go into her room and prepare her for this great sur- prise. White Chief. Tell her the White Chief of the Comanche tribe in Oklahoma is bringing her news of her lost son. (Exit Uncle Peter L. ) Ellen. The minute she sees you, she will know you. Mary. Of course she will, you look exactly as father did. Ellen. But do tell us, how did you get here? White Chief. Of course I have always known that I was different from the other Indians, but I never knew who I was until last week, the Indian who kidnapped me confessed when he was dying. He told me all about it and gave me the little clothes I wore when I was stolen, so here I am. 8 Uncle Peter. (At L. Exit.) Come on now, your mother is ready to see you. (Exit L.) Nellie. (Enters carrying slippers.) Here are uncle Peter's slippers, why doesn't he come and put them on? Tommy. Oh never mind him, you have a real uncle now to get slippers for, our uncle Will the White Chief has come back. Nellie. Oh, I don't believe it. Tommy. Yes he has, I know it 'cause he said I looked just like he used to. Ellen. My but this will be a real Thanksgiving. Mary. So it will, so it will. Tommy. Yes, and won't I have fun after dinner listening to his Indian stories, all about the scalping and the warwhoops and— everything? Nellie. I don't want to hear all about all those wicked things, I'd rather hear uncle Peter tell about the Jabberwocky. Louise. Indians don't do wicked things like that now. Fannie. No they are civilized and live like white folks. Nellie. Say, Tommy, aren't you sorry we can't go hunt up uncle Will now? Tommy. You needn't care 'cause I wasn't go- ing to let you go anyway. (Enter from L. Mrs. Gordon leaning on White Chiefs arm, followed by Uncle Peter, they come to C. Ellen. Well, come folks, dinner is all ready and waiting. (They move toward table and while they are being seated the curtain falls. ) TWO PLAYS FOR BOYS By SEYMOUR S. TIBBALS. Mr. Tibbals has been unusually successful in fur- nishing boys' plays that introduce characters true to life. While the plays are strong and forceful in the lessons they teach, clean comedy predominates and the boys like them. "The Millionaire Janitor 99 A comedy in two acts. Here is a rollicking play for eight or more boys with plenty of action. 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