Santa Claus' Daughter: A Musical Christmas Burlesque in Two Acts

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ACT I.

ACT II.

AMES’ SERIES OF STANDARD AND MINOR DRAMA,

No. 309.

Santa
Claus’ Daughter.

(BURLESQUE.)

WITH CAST OF CHARACTERS, ENTRANCES, AND EXITS, RELATIVE POSITIONS OF
THE PERFORMERS ON THE STAGE, DESCRIPTION OF COSTUMES AND
THE WHOLE OF THE STAGE BUSINESS, CAREFULLY
MARKED FROM THE MOST APPROVED
ACTING COPY.

PRICE 15 CENTS.

CLYDE, OHIO:

AMES’ PUBLISHING CO.

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Our Hopeful Son, Farce. Locked in a Dress-maker’s Room, Farce. Jacob Shlaff’s Mistake, Farce.
The Irish Squire of Squash Ridge, Farce. Hallabahoola, The Medicine Man, Farce. The Three Hats, Farce-Comedy.
Peleg and Peter, or Around the Horn, Farce-Comedy. Grandmother Hildebrand’s Legacy, Drama. New York Book Agent, or The Miser’s Gold, Drama.

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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF

Ames’ Edition of Plays.

FIFTEEN CENTS EACH UNLESS OTHERWISE MARKED.

NO. DRAMAS. M. F.
294  Arthur Eustace, 25c 10 4 
2  A Desperate Game 3 2 
164  After Ten Years 7 5 
39  A Life’s Revenge 7 5 
43  Arrah de Baugh 7 5 
100  Aurora Floyd 7 2 
125  Auld Robin Gray, 25c 13 8 
89  Beauty of Lyons 11 2 
113  Bill Detrick 7 3 
226  Brac, the Poor House Girl 4 4 
14  Brigands or Calabria 6 1 
272  Beyond Pardon 7 5 
160  Conn; or, Love’s Victory 11 3 
 268  Clearing the Mists 5 3 
161  Dora 5 2 
60  Driven to the Wall 10 3 
152  Driven from Home 7 4 
279  Dutch Jake 4 3 
173  East Lynne 8 7 
143  Emigrant’s Daughter 8 3 
162  Fielding Manor 9 6 
255  Gertie’s Vindication 3 3 
300  Grandmother Hildebrand’s Legacy, 25c 5 4 
283  Haunted by a Shadow 8 2 
117  Hal Hazard, 25c 10 3 
52  Henry Granden 11 8 
76  How He Did It 3 2 
141  Hidden Treasures 4 2 
26  Hunter of the Alps 9 4 
191  Hidden Hand 15 7 
194  Lights and Shadows of the Great Rebellion, 25c   10 5 
3  Lady of Lyons 12 5 
9  Lady Audley’s Secret 6 4 
261  Lost in London 6 4 
46  Man and Wife 12 7 
227  Maud’s Peril 5 3 
211  Midnight Mistake 6 2 
251  Millie, the Quadroon 4 1 
163  Miriam’s Crime 5 2 
91  Michael Erle 8 3 
36  Miller of Derwent Water 5 2 
34  Mistletoe Bough 7 3 
229  Mountebanks (The) 6 2 
298  New York Book Agent 7 3 
223  Old Honesty 5 2 
81  Old Phil’s Birthday 5 3 
85  Outcast’s Wife 12 3 
83  Out on the World 5 4 
196  Oath Bound 6 2 
29  Painter of Ghent 5 3 
278  Penn Hapgood 10 3 
301  Peleg and Peter, 25c 4 2 
18  Poacher’s Doom 8 3 
280  Pheelim O’Rookes’ Curse 8 3 
5  Phyllis, the Beggar Girl 6 3 
110  Reverses 12 6 
45  Rock Allen 5 3 
79  Spy of Atlanta, 25c 14 3 
275  Simple Silas 6 3 
266  Sweetbrier 11 5 
144  Thekla 9 4 
284  The Commercial Drummer 6 2 
242  The Dutch Recruit, 25c 14 3 
67  The False Friend 6 1 
97  The Fatal Blow 7 1 
119  The Forty-Niners 10 4 
304  The General Manager 5 5 
93  The Gentleman in Black 9 4 
112  The New Magdalen 8 3 
71  The Reward of Crime 5 3 
306  The Three Hats 4 3 
105  Through Snow and Sunshine 6 4 
201  Ticket of Leave Man 9 3 
293  Tom Blossom 9 4 
193  Toodles 7 2 
277  The Musical Captain 15 2 
200  Uncle Tom’s Cabin 15 7 
290  Wild Mab 6 2 
121  Will-o’-the-Wisp 9 4 
41  Won at Last 7 3 
192  Zion 7 4 
TEMPERANCE PLAYS.
73  At Last 7 1 
75  Adrift 5 4 
187  Aunt Dinah’s Pledge 6 3 
254  Dot: the Miner’s Daughter 9 5 
202  Drunkard (The) 13 5 
185  Drunkard’s Warning 6 3 
189  Drunkard’s Doom 15 5 
181  Fifteen Years of a Drunkard’s Life 13 4 
183  Fruits of the Wine Cup 6 3 
104  Lost 6 2 
146  Our Awful Aunt 4 4 
53  Out in the Streets 6 4 
51  Rescued 5 3 
59  Saved 2 3 
102  Turn of the Tide 7 4 
63  Three Glasses a Day 4 2 
62  Ten Nights in a Bar-Room 7 3 
58  Wrecked 9 3 
COMEDIES.
168  A Pleasure Trip 7 3 
136  A Legal Holiday 5 3 
124  An Afflicted Family 7 5 
257  Caught in the Act 7 3 
248  Captured 6 4 
178  Caste 5 3 
176  Factory Girl 6 3 
207  Heroic Dutchman of ’76 8 3 
199  Home 4 3 
174  Love’s Labor Not Lost 3 3 
158  Mr. Hudson’s Tiger Hunt 1 1 
149  New Years in N. Y. 7 6 
37  Not So Bad After All 6 5 

Santa Claus’ Daughter. 

A MUSICAL CHRISTMAS
BURLESQUE

IN TWO ACTS,

BY

EVERETT ELLIOTT AND F. W. HARDCASTLE.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

DESCRIPTION OF THE COSTUMES—CAST OF THE CHARACTERS—ENTRANCES AND EXITS—RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PERFORMERS ON THE STAGE, AND THE WHOLE OF THE STAGE BUSINESS.

Entered according to the act of Congress in the year 1892, by
AMES’ PUBLISHING CO.,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

CLYDE, OHIO:
AMES’ PUBLISHING CO.

SANTA CLAUS’ DAUGHTER.

CAST OF CHARACTERS.
Santa Claus  
Gussie DeSmythe Secretary to Santa Claus.
Dennis O’Rourke  
Footman  
Coachman  
Mrs. Santa Claus Santa Claus’ wife.
Kitty Claus Santa Claus’ only daughter.
Queen of Snow-fairies  
Four Snow-fairies  
The Four Holidays   Fourth of July, Thanksgiving,
  Christmas and New Years.  
Erin Goddess of Ireland.

COSTUMES.

  • Santa Claus.—Complete suit of furs; peaked cap, great-coat, top-boots.
  • Gussie DeSmythe.—First dress, smoking jacket, light pantaloons, slippers.
  • Second dress, dark morning suit.
  • Dennis O’Rourke.—First dress, battered plug hat, red wig, linen duster,
  • gaiters, worn-out shoes. Second dress, full-dress suit,
  • ancient cut, striped shirt, exaggerated jewelry.
  • Footman and Coachman.—Eccentric and exaggerated livery.
  • Mrs. Santa Claus.—Modern dress.
  • Kitty Claus.—Modern dress.
  • Queen of Snow-fairies.—White dress, spangles, crown and wand.
  • Snow-fairies.—Same as Queen, except that they wear no crowns.
  • Four Holidays.—Costumes and colors suggesting days represented.
  • Erin.—White and green dress, trimmed in gold, wreath.

PROPERTIES.

Large book and quill pen for Gussie; carpet bag and cane for O’Rourke; sleigh bells. Also quizzing glass for Gussie.

SYNOPSIS OF EVENTS.

ACT I.—Scene, North Pole Snow Castle. Santa Claus’ home. Song of the Snow-fairies. Gussie and the Fairies. Santa Claus preparing for his “night out.” The “Directory.” “The Dude.” Kitty wants to move to the land of mortals, where men are plenty. Santa Claus’ advice. Song by Santa Claus and family, “A Model Man.” Gussie, “That’s clevah, deucedly clevah doncher no?” Gussie’s attempt to sing. Chestnut bell. Santa Claus’ promise to bring Kitty a man. Astonishment at Kitty’s rash request. Caught out on a foul. “I’ll bring her a boodler, a Farmer’s Alliance man,” anything to disgust her with the whole race. Song—Sleighing song. Departure of Santa Claus for the land of mortals, in his sleigh and fleet-footed reindeers.

ACT. II.—Return of Santa Claus, with an Irish Paddy. Santa Claus and Gussie witness unseen, the meeting of Kitty and “her man.” “Do yez chew gum, and play on the type-writer.” Song by Kitty, “The Pleasure of Catching a Man.” The proposal. “The could weather will make yez a widdy before yez married, so it will.” Santa Claus’ despair at Kitty’s acceptance of O’Rourke. Gussie has an idea. O’Rourke declared King of the North Pole. Coronation song. March by Fairies and Holidays. “The last ton of coal which broke the camels back.” O’Rourke ascends the throne. Cigarette or two. Kitty resolves to reform O’Rourke. Tableau. Erin appears. Her appeal in behalf of the Irish girls, beats the world and Kitty isn’t in it. Kitty undecided whether to go with O’Rourke or remain. Tableau. Curtain.

STAGE DIRECTIONS.

R., means Right; L., Left; R. H., Right Hand; L. H., Left Hand; C., Centre; S. E., [2d E.,] Second Entrance; U. E., Upper Entrance; M. D., Middle Door; F., the Flat; D. F., Door in Flat; R. C., Right of Centre; L. C., Left of Centre.

R.    R. C.    C.    L. C.    L.

⁂ The reader is supposed to be upon the stage facing the audience.

Santa Claus’ Daughter.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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