TAKING SANTA’S PLACE

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22883, 2 December 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

TAKING SANTA’S PLACE

Miss Dressmaker; Six hundred and forty-nine more toys to make. Eleven thousand stockings to fill. Mr Piggoty (staring at her); And I'm expected to/ do that! ■> Cohere is a knock at the door, left, and in- come four boys, overcoats covered with snow, shouting excitedly.) Tallest boy; Hello, Santa! We came to see your reindeer! ■ - Smallest Boy; Or do you have a car and an airplane now? Mr Piggoty (with a braggy air): Oh, several. cars and Several airplanes! Yes,” indeed! ' "■ Pinky; Me doesn't know a thing about it! He’s- only ttiy Uncle Piggoty playing Santa Claus, so the real Santa can take a rest!' Next-To-Blggcst-Boy: He’s playing Santa Claus! What a load of fun! Mr Piggoty: Do you want, part of the job? I’ll never get it done! (He mops head with handkerchief.) Smallest Boy; I should say we do! I’ll drive the reindeer! Tinsel Picker (opening the door, right): Come right along and get some Santa clothes! (The boys troop off stage with the Tinsel Picker.) • Mr Piggoty: How full do we fill these stockings? / Miss Dressmaker: To the .top and very bulgy. Mr Piggoty: I suppose there’s a good warm stove In the sleigh? toy Painter: I should say not! All the space is full of toys! Mr Piggoty: How’ll 1 keep warm? Miss Dressmaker: Santa is so busy thinking about the ones he is making happy, he forgets about himself! (The door, right, opens, and the boys march in wearing Santa suits, which they have had under their overcoats. They have only had to take off overcoats and put on whiskers and red caps. Singing to the tune of “Farmer in the Dell,” they march round the stage, each carrying sleighbells. The Tinsel Picker following.) Boys; Hooray for Santa Claus! Hooray for Santa Claus! Christmas is here again," Hooray for Santa Claus! Pill the stockings up. And trim the Christmas tree. This is the Christmas shop Of Santa’s com-pan-ee! Mr Piggoty: Why doesn’t (somebody help m. fill stockings? (Smallest Boy goes to hglp him and begins eating the candy that is to be put in the stockings,) Toy Fainter: The shed is full of things that need paint. (Next-to-the-Taliest Boy takes a paint bucket and brush and goes off stage, right.) Miss Dressmaker: Somebody can help me, too, (Next-to-Smallest Boy takes the clown’s sleeve from; the table, and starts pinning it in the clown’s suit.) Tinsel Picker: And here’s a tree to trim. ' '* (Tallest Boy moves a chair to the tree, and helps himself to tinsel. Everyone begins working, hands moving fast. Miss Dressmaker puts finishing touches to Jap ( Doll. They work busily for one minute.) - Ncxt-to-smailest Boy: ouch! I stuck my finger!

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(Continued from last week)

(Hq shakes finger. Next-to-Tallest Boy hurries in from right with a red waggon. He pits it down and. hurries out again, sleeves tolled up, apron On, and paint brush in hand!) Mr Piggot>: This Is quite a job, ain’t It? (Snaps finger and shakes bead.) I should say wouldn’t it— I mean couldn’t it? (Yawns.) I’m getting tired! Smallest Bey: So am I. Toy' Painter;. You’ve only begun! Next-to-Smallest Boy (still at clown sleeve): Ouch! - -

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Tinsel Picker (to Tallest Boy trimming tree); You’ve got all the trimming in one place! Tallest’Boy: It's the only place I I can reach. Can I hep up and down and up and down and Wear ray legs 'all out? , Next-to-Smallest Boy: Ouch! (Next-to-Tallest Boy runs In from right, bringing a brightly-painted sled, leaves it and runs off stage again. Next-to-Smallest Boy has finished the clown sleeve. Now he puts on thb clown’s hat and. neck ruff.) Next-to-Smallest Boy: There! He’s done! * . (Clown begins clapping cymbals.) Clown: Ha ha ha ha!, Ha ha ha ha! Next-to-Smallest Boy; I’ll never give him away, ril keep him for mine! Smallest Boy: Oh, oh! I . have the stomach ache! oh. oh! Pinky: No wonder. You’ve eaten at least three'pounds of candy! Smallest Boy (doubling up, tubbing his tummy): Oh, oh! Somebody’s got to put me to bed! (A clock Strikes one.)

■ - Tallest Boy (coming down 7*2; : chair); One o’clock! SomebShT 8 * ; put me to bed, tool..'Pm 2225: Ncxt-to-Smallest Soy: | i take my clown and straight home. ' ■ Mr Plggoty: Who’s going ikTJ'. ' all this work, I’d like to Next-tO-Tallest Boy < COiaift J J& from right with rocking cfi*? Somebody else can paint done three. That’s my Smallest Boy: I’m sick! IV* an awful stomach ache! . Tallest Boy: I can’t hold niv *«L' open five minutes longer! SmaUest Boy: I—l—want*' fhfm home, (He Whimpers.) * Mr Plggoty: Yes, it’s lime feiil, home, ain’t it? (Snaps finger '*!? shakes head.) * I mean—shot.® it——l mean hasn’t It? (He takerS Santa beard, and the boyslajSS their Santa Claus beards, toal ; v Pinky: But, Uncle, you saidronta' be Santa Claus! Mr Plggoty: I said I looked fiaut' some in red and loved to go «SSI riding, but I didn’t say I’d wiSE night long! (Santa opens the door, righ® , § a has oh pyjamas, ’ nightcap.) Santa: What’s the troubMtqSSL' way? 'i®?' Tinsel Picker; Mere areTiL people starting to be SafitirraK ana, none of them is . wmaTg finish!- ' •. -mK’ • Santa: I didn’t think tbeythtoitit to. Well, never you mind, Next-to-Smallest Boy: I wantflfi clown! j*"™ Smallest Boy (with sack): I want the candy! . the candy! ■ Toy Painters Not one of yaw'a unselfish enough to take stnu place even one year!. Each ofy*! is thinking only of himself." Yaffil forgotten all about the wotlrt# people you could make haj»y!.i!t Mr Plggoty: ’Pon my soulMniifti right, ain’t it! I mean—cftuldfrf .-fr —I mean didn’t it? I guess wa h* selfish! WeH—right now*ii?S time to improve. I can ! sfiafi stocking and ITI do the very hkt I can! Pinky: So will It Just watch! *s Tallest Boys I will too! i (They start stuffing stocking*) 4 ' The, Dolls And I know « huhjfoj others! (She her hum la audience.) Who’ll help -Sflttiti Please everybody who win dll astocking for Santa this vssr your hands! (She - weits 'for •fIBBI to clap their, hands. - I’m- sure vßm them will!) There! . The Cmmk world Will! 'jOT; Everyone on the Stages WmKw' (Everyone begins ter Four Toys' march jerkily, sisyrtmr' the last verse of the ■ sQßgjv.wSg they are .done Mr out at audience.) Mr Plggoty: ’Pon my going to be. a mighty, fin* ckjlh. mas—(He Winks - a big isn’t it? And the curtain closej.^afl i lhis is the CncL

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