Lively
Plays
for
Live
People
BY
THOMAS STEWART DENISON
AUTHOR OF
Thirty-six plays; also, “An Iron Crown,” “The Man Behind,”
“Outlines of World’s History,” etc.
CHICAGO:
T. S. DENISON, Publisher,
163 Randolph Street.
| Page | |
| Topp’s Twins, comedy, four acts | 5 |
| Patsy O’Wang, farce | 77 |
| Rejected, farce | 107 |
| The New Woman, comedy, three acts | 133 |
| Only Cold Tea, temperance sketch | 165 |
| A First-Class Hotel, farce | 179 |
| Madame Princeton’s Temple of Beauty, farce | 193 |
| A Dude in a Cyclone, farce | 207 |
| It’s all in the Pay Streak, comedy, three acts | 219 |
| The Cobbler, a monologue | 261 |
Copyright, 1895, by T. S. Denison.
The first requisite in a play is action, after that shouldbe found as much novelty of incident and freshness ofdialogue, combined with originality in character study,as the author can contrive to get together in these dayswhen apparently nothing is wholly new. These playsare intended primarily for representation.
These explanations are made because the purposeof a previous volume of my plays, issued without preface,appeared to have been misunderstood in a fewinstances.
Public approval, whether it be an infallible guide ornot, in matters pertaining to print, is at least encouraging,and this leads me to say that of my earlier playsthere have been sold in paper covers three hundred andtwenty thousand copies, besides an edition in cloth.
The Author.
Chicago, July 11, 1895.
TOPP’S TWINS
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