Acting Charades Author:Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1924 Original Publisher: Walter H. Baker company Subjects: Charades Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Mil... more »lion-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ALL ROUND THE PALETTE (Four Charades in Two Scenes) ULTRAMARINE, SEPIA, YELLOW. OCHRE, ROSE MADDER Scene I. Ultra Marine. (Enter Sailor Jack and Sweetheart Polly, courting.) Jack. Shiver my timbers! port my spritsail moorings! blow my starboard binnacles, if ever I saw such a pretty gal as you, Polly. Polly. Oh, Jack, you are so nautical! You talk so beautiful! I do love a sailor! Jack. Avast! belay! splice my topsail halyards, but I'll have a kiss! (Takes one. Exeunt, billing and cooing.) Scene II. S'eepier. (Two years later. Scene, at. humble cot. Polly rocking cradle.) Polly. Dear me! how long Jack has been away! That's the trouble with sailors; you never know where they are or what they're about. It's very tiresome. (Yawns.) Oh! Baby's asleep, and I am too, almost. I am getting s'eepier -- and s'eepier -- and -- s'eepier (Nods, and soon is fast asleep.) Scene III. Yell awoke her. (Enter Jack.) Jack. Ahoy! where's the good ship Polly? (Perceives Polly.) Ha! safe in port. Blast my taffrail, but I'll give her a surprise. (Tiptoes over to Polly and yells in her ear.) Avast! belay! Shiver my Scene IV. Rose madder. Polly (springing up). Oh, you horrid thing! How dare you yell in my ear? You've waked baby, and made me stone deaf! You great, noisy, odious, vulgar, nautical brute! I wish I had never set eyes on you! etc., etc. (tableau.) ALTERATION (Altar-ration) Scene I. Altar. This scene may represent either: A. The boy Hannibal swearing eternal hate to Rome; or, B. The worship of some Eastern idol, with lights,...« less