Compiled and edited by ROBERT HAVEN
SCHAUFFLER and A. P. SANFORD.
1. PLAYS FOR CHRISTMAS AND OTHER HIGH DAYS: including Christmas, St. Valentine's Day , St. Patrick's Day , Easter and Halloween.
2. PLAYS FOR FESTIVALS: including New Year's Day , Twelfth Night , Arbor Day, April Fool's Day , May Day , Thanksgiving Day and Fore fathers ' Day .
3. PLAYS FOR PATRIOTIC DAYS: including Lin coln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday , Flag Day , Memorial Day , Independence Day , Thomas Jefferson Day and Armistice Day .
4. PLAYS FOR SPECIAL CELEBRATIONS: including Mother's Day , Children's Day , Labor Day , Columbus Day , Health Week, Music Week, Book Week and Red Cross Week.
AMERICAN HOLIDAYS
Plays for Special Celebrations:
Including Mother's Day
, Children's Day
, Labor
Day,
Columbus Day
, Health Week, Music
Week, Book Week and Red Cross Week
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors wish to acknowledge with gratitude suggestions and other generous help given them, in the preparation of these volumes, by: Miss Eugenia Krauss, Librarian of the Epiphany Branch, N. Y. Public Library; Miss Mary Emogene Hazletine of the University of Wisconsin Library School; Miss Sue Ann Wilson of The Drama League of Chicago; Mrs. Mabel F. Hobbs of The Playground and Recreational Association of America; Miss Mabel Williams, Supervisor of Work with Schools, 58th St. Branch, N. Y. Public Library; Prof. Almere L. Scott, of the University of Wisconsin; Mr. A. L. Schafer of the American Red Cross Assn., Washington, D. C.; and The American Child Health Assn., N. Y. City.
For their kind permission to reprint copyrighted material, grateful acknowledgment is due to:
Ethel Van der Veer for "Shipping Mother East."
Percival Wilde, Little, Brown & Company, the Walter H. Baker Company, and Samuel French, Ltd., for "Mothers of Men.”
D. B. Wyndham Lewis and The Saturday Review, for “At the Mule: A Fragment."
Anna Hempstead Branch and Christodora House, for "St. Francis and the Wolf."
Charlotte Reed White and the Woodward School Children, for "A Group of Plays About Ulysses and the Greeks."
Mary Katharine Reely and the Walter H. Baker Company, for "Daily Bread."
Erma and Paul Greene and The Carolina Playmakers, Inc., for "Fixin's."
Lord Dunsany and G. P. Putnam's Sons, for "The Evil Kettle." Margaret Parsons for "The Mothers They Forgot" and "Sailing West to Find the East."
A. P. Sanford for "The Jewels of Isabella," "Brother Musicians" and "The Birthday Party."
Eleanor Glendower Griffith and the American Child Health Association, for "The Little Vegetable Men" and "The House the Children Built."
