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APPENDIX
Act I, Scene i. A home scene showing how the Mother and Sisters despised Two-Eyes.
  Scene ii. Two-Eyes and the Fairy.
  Scene iii. Two-Eyes and the Goat. Evening of the first day.
Act II, Scene i. One-Eye went with Two-Eyes. Third morning.
Song . . . Feast . . . Return home.
Act III, Scene i. Three-Eyes went with Two-Eyes. Fourth morning.
Song . . . Feast . . . Return home.


The Story of Two-Eyes
  Place . . . . . . The forest; and the magic tree before the house.
  Time . . . . . . Summer.
Act I, Scene i. Two-Eyes and the Fairy.
Act II, Scene i. The magic tree. Mother and Sisters attempt to pluck the fruit.
Act III, Scene i. The Knight. Second attempt to pluck fruit.
Conclusion. The happy marriage.


Snow White

The Story of Snow White is one of the romantic fairy tales which has been re-written and staged as a play for children, and now may be procured in book form. It was produced by Winthrop Ames at the Little Theatre in New York City. The dramatization by Jessie Braham White followed closely the original tale. The entire music was composed by Edmond Rickett, who wrote melodies for a number of London Christmas pantomimes. The scenery, by Maxfield Parrish, was composed of six stage pictures, simple, harmonious, and beautiful, with tense blue skies, a dim suggestion of the forest, and the quaint architecture of the House of the Seven Dwarfs. Pictures in old nursery books were the models for the scenes. Because of the simplicity of the plot and the few characters, Snow White could be played very simply in four scenes, by the children of the second and third grades for the kindergarten and first grade.