The Emerson Winters Company

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The Emerson Winters Company




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FOUND OUT AT LAST


Original One-Act Plays




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WAITING FOR THE ANSWER
—FROM 
HAPPINESS THROUGH SACRIFICE

The Emerson Winters Company



Redpath Everywhere




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DID DAD SEND THE MONEY?


Readings and Pianologues



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Whistling and Bird Imitations






The Emerson Winters Company
 is a standard lyceum attraction of over ten years' experience and has established a permanent place for itself by hard work and genuine merit.  No attraction stays in the lyceum ten years unless it has unusual worth.





NEW PROGRAM PLANNED



Mr. and Mrs. Winters are not content to give the same program year after year, but each season have a new offering.  For the coming season they will feature an original play of two acts, especially written for them, 
Happiness Through Sacrifice
.  The play requires but two characters, 
Mary Curtis
 and 
John Hamilton
.





STORY OF THE PLAY



The first act takes place December 23.  Place, depot station in a small New York town.  Mary Curtis is the agent; John Hamilton is a passenger enroute home for Christmas.  John is from Topeka, Kansas, and two years before, following a quarrel with his father, went to New York to make his own way but has failed.  Homesick and discouraged he decides to go home, but does not have money enough for the fare, but buys a ticket as far as his money will take him, and at 9:00 o'clock at night the conductor has put him off the train at Mary's little station.  He enters the station and explains his situation to the pretty agent, and tells her parts of his life story.  The next train stopping at this station is at 11:00 p. m., and if he could wire home for money and get it back before this train he can be home for Christmas!  Mary becomes interested and sends the telegram, and the time of waiting is spent as young folks will.  Several humorous telegrams are received and sent.  The dialogue is snappy and humorous.  The train is past due—suspense—telegram is not received—train whistles for station and just then telegram from Topeka arrives.  Mary reads telegram to John (Dad says he will not send money).  She notices his disappointment, and says she was only joking, and that his Dad has wired $100.  She gives him the $100—her own money saved up to buy a new coat.  John catches train.  Mary closes depot and act one ends.




A large clock and revolving calendar on stage, show the passing of time until June comes with its roses.




The train from the West arrives and John gets off.  He enters depot with a large boquet [sic bouquet]of flowers and tells Mary his Dad wants to meet the girl who was not afraid to invest $100 in his son, after he had given him up.  A little later Mary sends two telegrams—one to the Superintendent telling him to send a new agent to the station, and one reserving the drawing room on the west bound Pullman that night.




The play lasts about thirty minutes.





BIRD IMITATIONS



Mrs. Winters is a wonderful whistler, and her whistling solos and bird imitations, are truly wonderful.  In one bird monologue she imitates the oriole, cardinal, pee wee, canary, robin, meadow lark, owl, mocking bird and chick-a-dee.




Mr. Winters is one of the cleverest pianologists and story tellers in the lyceum, and their program will not have a single dull moment.  In fact, Mr. Winters could give a full evening of character sketches.