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Excerpt from The Everyday Library for Young People: Plays, Pictures and Poems; 7 New Plays for Amateurs, 112 Pictures by Celebrated Artists, 185 Poems With Biographical Notes Staging and costuming are secondary and should be simplified as much as possible. For the home theatre a few screens which may be used as backgrounds are invaluable. Draped with soft green cheese cloth and hung with vines they make a forest background, covered with white and gold paper they become a throne-room, brown denim makes the wall of a hut or cottage, gray the distance of a lonely moor, etc. In short, with a few screens and a little ingenuity and imagina tion an endless variety of scenes may be represented. Many effective costumes may be made Of the simplest materials. A strip Of cheese-cloth with a square hole cut for the neck will hang in long lines like a mediaeval costume, or it may be draped in classical folds. Crepe paper makes excellent costumes for flower fairies or light elves. One may become a queen by donning a gold - paper crown or royalty may be denoted by a cape trimmed with cotton batting ermine, a mere suggestion is enough. In any case the children should plan and make the costumes themselves so far as they are able. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.