PART I.

A group of entertainments for stage or floor performance, by MARY B. HORNE, the author of “The Peak Sisters,” etc.

Price, 30 cents.

CONTENTS.

=A NATIONAL FLAG DRILL= (As presented by children in Belmont, Mass., at a Fair given by the Arachne, in December, 1888. Also as given by ten young ladies of the Unity Club, in Watertown, Mass., February 22, 1889.)

=THE SHEPHERD'S DRILL.=

=THE TAMBOURINE DRILL= (As given at a Rainbow Party by twelve little girls of the Third Congregational Society, Austin St., Cambridgeport, May 2, 1889.)

=THE MOTHER GOOSE QUADRILLE= (As danced at the Belmont Town Hall, May 10, 1889.)

_THE CHRONOTHANATOLETRON_; OR, OLD TIMES MADE NEW.

An entertainment in one act for sixteen girls, written for the Class Day Exercises at Dana Hall School, Wellesley, Mass., by two members of the Class of '87 and first performed before members of the school and their friends, June 18, 1887, and later at Ellsworth, Maine April 6th, 1888.

Price, 25 cents.

The idea of this cleverly conceived but quaintly named piece may be briefly described as follows: The “Genius of the Nineteenth Century,” although congratulating herself upon the achievements of the age, still longs for some means of recalling to earth the prominent characters of the past. Her wish is granted by the “Inventress” who produces the “marvelous machine,” the “Chronothanatoletron” (or Time and Death Annihilator), by means of which any woman of any epoch can be brought at once into the presence of the “operator.”

OUT OF HIS SPHERE.

A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS BY THE AUTHOR OF THE POPULAR MILITARY DRAMA

“FORCED TO THE WAR.”

Price, 15 cents.

Five male, three female characters. Scenery, two simple interiors. The leading character is an old farmer, whose wish for the comforts of city life and the luxuries of wealth is answered in an unexpected and embarrassing manner. The piece abounds in rustic humor, the contrast between the simple old countryman and his city surroundings being ludicrously emphasized. All the characters are good and the piece easy to produce.

SYNOPSIS.