Edited by Maurine H. Faw. BIG BOOK OF CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS: A Collection of Original Plays, Poems and Novelties Written Especially for This Book. Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1941. Wraps, sewn binding is ound, cover wear, pencil markings in text and on back cover, a few pages soiling. 245 pages. Good. Paperback. 

PLAYS:

“You Never Can Tell About Santa” by Gladys Louise Messick.

“Christmas Tree Lights” by Katherine Bridges.

“The Real Santa Claus” by L. D. Griffee.

“Merry Christmas, Little Mice” by Myrtle Vorst Sheppard.

“Christmas Comes to Grandpa” by Don Elser.

“The Night Before Christmas” by M. Louise C. Hastings.

“Green Christmas or White” by E. L. Gamble.

“Mother Goose Christmas Helpers” by M. Louise C. Hastings.

“The Pioneers’ Christmas” by Dorothy Bladin Hill.

“An SOS from Santa Claus” by Pearl Holloway.

“When Santa Forgot” by E. L. Gamble.

“A Homemade Christmas” by Ruth Taylor.

“The Naughty Cooky-Man” by Myrtle Vorst Sheppard.

“Santat Claus and the Toys” by Leonara Sill Ashton.

“A Christmas Carol” (Adapted form the story by Charles Dickens” by Louise Price Bell.

“One Side of Chrismas” by Pearl Holloway.

POETRY by:

Hoffman, Bruby Jackson, Crow, Gridley, Farr, Porter, Wormwood Hastings.

NOVELTIES BY:

Hoffman, Wagner, Hastings, Clark, Crites, Brumby , Dolan, Norton, Blair, Luckhardt.

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