Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Patriotic: Plays and Pageants for Young People
The one-act plays for young people contained in this volume can be produced separately, or may be used as links in the chain of episodes which go to make up outdoor or indoor pageants. There are full dirce tions for simple costumes, dances, and music. Each play deals with the youth of some American hero, so that the lad who plays George Washington or Ben jamin Franklin will be in touch with the emotions of a patriot of his own years, instead of incongruously portraying an adult. Much of the dialogue contains the actual words of Lincoln, Washington, and Frank lin, so that in learning their lines the youthful players may grasp something of the hardihood and sagacity of Washington, the perseverance of Franklin, and the honesty and dauntlessness of Lincoln, and of those salient virtues that went to the up-building of America - a heritage from the time when all the land was young.
The plays are suitable for schools, summer camps, boys' clubs, historic festivals, patriotic societies, and social settlements and playgrounds. The outdoor plays are especially adapted for a Safe and Sane Fourth. All the plays have stood the test of production.
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