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HALLOWE'EN FESTIVITIES.
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PROGRAM.

As each guest enters room where performance is to take place he receives a copy of the evening's program from hands of a ghost.

Form of Program.

Robin Goodfellow: A Recitation.

Macbeth's Fortune: A Play.

Ghostly Pantomime:

(a) Seein' Things.

(b) Tenting To-night.

(c) Au Revoir.

Refreshments.

At eight o'clock orchestra begins first piece, "A Hot Time in the Old Town To-night."

Orchestra: Combs, tin horns, brass horns, dinner-bells, tin pans, harmonicas, piano, drums.

Orchestral Music (to be played between the part performances): "Sweet Marie;" "The Bowery;" "You Can't Play in my Back Yard;" "There's a New Coon in Town;" "We've All Been There Before;" "Good Night, Ladies."

Performance: With finish of "There's a Hot Time in the Old Town To-night," Robin Goodfellow appears and recites "Robin Goodfellow." After his recitation curtain rises.

ROBIN GOODFELLOW—ALIAS PUCK—ALIAS HOBGOBLIN.

(A KIND OF MERRY SPRITE.)

By Ben Jonson.

From Oberon, in fairye land,
The King of Ghosts and shadowes there,
Mad Robin I, at his command,
Am sent to viewe the night sports here.