Description
Eldridge Entertainment House, Published 1912. Wraps, 27 pp. plus 5 pp. publisher's advertisements, with further advertisements on inside covers and rear cover; 20 cm.
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Condition & notes
In Acceptable condition. Blue printed paper wraps, staple bound, price of 25 cents on front cover. Covers toned and lightly soiled, corners rounded and worn, small chips and tears along edges; 3/4" split at foot of spine. Staples rusted, with small tears at staple holes; center leaf (pp. 16-17) detached but laid in. Otherwise binding intact. Pages toned. Otherwise unmarked. One-act juvenile play for thirteen characters, one of the Eldridge juvenile plays. Nancy Walker, a blacksmith's daughter mocked as a tomboy by the girls of her sewing circle, learns that a Tory lawyer plans to capture her father, a spy for General Washington, along with a letter of money meant for the army. Disguised in a friend's clothes, she outwits two British soldiers, meets her father at Deadman's Oak in the Haunted Glen, and is thanked by Washington himself. Period dialect characterization of the family's Black servant, Sukey, including racial slurs in the dialogue and minstrel titles among the publisher's advertisements. Guptill wrote many plays and entertainments for children, published by Eldridge and by Walter H. Baker of Boston. Eldridge Entertainment House was founded in Franklin by Harry C. Eldridge and Seymour S. Tibbals to publish plays for schools and churches. Rear cover advertises their comic opera "The Captain of Plymouth," staged as the commencement feature at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.