Project Gutenberg 2024-09-30 Public domain in the USA. 208 Merington, Marguerite 1857 1951 Merrington, Marguerite 13025313 Festival plays : $b one-act pieces for New Year's day, St. Valentine's day, Easter, All Hallowe'en, Christmas and a child's birthday $aNew York :$bDuffield & Company, $c1913. Father Time and his children (New Year's day) -- Tertulla's garden, or The miracle of good St. Valentine (Valentine's day) -- The seven sleepers of Ephesos (Easter) -- Princess Moss Rose (for every child's birthday) -- The testing of Sir Gawayne (Hallowe'en) -- A Christmas party (Christmas). Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Festival Plays: One-Act Pieces for New Year's Day, St. Valentine's Day, Easter, All Hallow'e'en, Christmas, and a Child's Birthday" by Marguerite Merington is a collection of one-act plays written in the early 20th century. This compilation focuses on various holidays, offering a creative and theatrical exploration of themes associated with celebration and festivity. Each play appears designed to capture the essence of the celebratory occasion, utilizing characters and stories that resonate with the spirit of those specific festivals. At the start of the work, the play “Father Time and His Children” introduces Father Time as the central character and his twelve children, each representing the months of the year. The scene is lively, filled with song and dance as the months present themselves to the audience, each embodying unique characteristics corresponding to their time. The engaging dialogue highlights the playful nature of these personifications, setting a whimsical tone as Time humorously reflects on the passage of time and its significance. This opening segment establishes a blend of humor and festivity that characterizes the collection, setting the stage for the varied themes of the subsequent plays involving joy, love, and reflection. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/festivalplaysone00meririch/page/n7/mode/2up 20210326211102merington 1913 US Reading ease score: 86.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. en One-act plays, American Children's plays, American Holidays -- Juvenile drama PZ Text 514523 2025-09-29T10:53:50.096379 text/html 489142 2024-09-30T17:14:12 text/html 693652 2025-09-29T10:54:03.176324 application/epub+zip 695494 2025-09-29T10:53:52.768332 application/epub+zip 321448 2025-09-29T10:53:51.192411 application/epub+zip 1307502 2025-09-29T10:54:08.276811 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1274134 2025-09-29T10:54:01.961324 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 306289 2025-09-29T10:53:47.349391 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 286290 2024-09-30T17:14:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16337 2025-09-29T10:54:08.432780 application/rdf+xml 17726 2025-09-29T10:53:51.559362 image/jpeg 2955 2025-09-29T10:53:51.374359 image/jpeg 1062256 2025-09-29T10:53:50.148368 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia