A Christmas in Dreamland

the long version

1. This is a 1915, post WWI Christmas Play, I imagine, was used as a fund raiser for local school, community centre or church. 2. This is a children's play with MANY children, each of whom portrays the part of their favourite Fairy Tale character. 3. Character examples: Mother Goose, Little Boy Blue, Little Bo-Peep, Jack & Jill, Humpty Dumpty, etc. .... as well as Robinson Crusoe, Little Girl and her Mother, Mother of My Son John, ''And any others desired.'' 4. Author also discusses the COSTUMES which can be used: ''Any quaint costumes may be used, or they may be taken from designs in Mother Goose.'' 5. Author also states that: ''Much of the success of this entertainment will depend upon the abandon with which the children enter into the spirit of the occasion. Drill them to be full of pranks, but do not let their antics be too pronounced so as to attract the attention of the audience from the speaker.''