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Books

Title	Edition	Year of Publication	Contributors	Country of Publication	Possible Copyright Status				Available Online?
99 points for amateur actors		1936	Philip Beaufoy Barry
Acting plays for boys and girls		1927	Patten Beard
Ali Baba: and other plays for young people or puppets		1927	Helen Haiman Joseph
Amateur and educational dramatics		1917	Evelyne Hilliard, Theodora McCormick, Kate Oglebay
American festivals for elementary schools		1916	Madalene D. (Madalene Demarest) Barnum
American patriotic plays (ten new plays)		1937	P. B. Corneau, A. P. (Anne Putnam) Sanford, Marion Holbrook
Another treasury of plays for children		1926	W. G. Robertson, Montrose Jonas Moses, Maria Edgeworth
The art of directing plays		1931	De Witt Clinton Ashton
The art of play production		1928	John Dolman, A. H. Quinn
...Askepot og Den nysgjerrige kone		1917	Margrethe Aabel Munthe
A book of plays for little actors		1907	Emma Louisa Johnston, Madalene Demarest Barnun
Building the amateur opera company: a guide for prospective organizers of amateur opera companies, offering helpful suggestions as to selection of efficient officers and directors, together with practical advice as to development and capable functioning of the chorus, ballet and orchestra		1930	Roy B. Kester, Ralph Herman Korn, S. Bernard Koopman
Cheery comedies for Christmas: a collection of plays pantomimes, tableaux, readings, recitations, illustrated poems, etc., suitable for use at Christmas		1915	Edith M. (Edith Maie) Burrows, Gertrude M. Henderson
A child's book of holiday plays		1916	Marie Abrams, Frances G. (Frances Gillespy) Wickes
Children of old Carolina: An historical pageant of North Carolina for children		1925	Ethel Theodora Rockwell
The children's Christmas tree: stories and exercises for the Sunday school, kindergarten or school		1913	Frances Weld. Danielson
Children's classics in dramatic form		1928	Augusta Stevenson
The children's King and other plays for children: with chapters on dramatizing with children		1928	Elisabeth Edland
Children's plays		1919	Willy Pogany, Ada M. (Ada Maria) Skinner, Eleanor L. (Eleanor Louise) Skinner
The children's poets, dramatic readings		1929	Paulene Foster Ring
The children's recital book: humorous monologues for youngsters, clever readings, playlets, sketches, encores for child impersonators in verse and prose		1928	Doris Isabelle Robidoux
Children's theatre comes of age		1956	Charles Robert Kase
Chocolate cake and black sand: and two other plays		1917	Samuel Milbank Cauldwell, Anna Richards Brewster
Christmas candles: plays for boys and girls		1915	Elsie Hobart Carter
Cinderella and five other fairy plays, by Lindsey Barbee; illustrated by Harlan Tarbell		1922	Lindsey Barbee, Harlan Tarbell
The circus comes to school		1937	Averil Tibbels
Citizenship plays: a dramatic reader for upper grades		1922	Clara Atwood Fitts, Eleanore Hubbard
The Cokesbury stunt book		1934	Arthur M. Depew
A comedy of the woods: (animated botany) presenting three separate plays entitled: Mother Earth's children, Jack's sermon, The adventurous tulip		1930	Estelle Harriet Robbins
Comic plays and dialogues		1926	Hobert O. Boggs
Costumes and scenery for amateurs: a practical working handbook		1932	Constance D'Arcy. Mackay
Creative dramatics for secondary education		1932	William Nelson Viola, Harold Gardner, J. R. Taylor
Dickon goes to the fair: and other plays		1927	Alice Wight Alden, Mrs. J. R. Commons, Sara K. Kingsbury
Directing for the amateur stage		1935	Leslie Crump
Drama in the church: a manual of religious drama production		1933	Louis Wilson, Fred Eastman
Dramatic costume for children: a book of costumes for children's plays, pageants, operettas, and holiday dramatizations		1949	Claude Merton Wise, Edith Dabney
The dramatic festival: a consideration of the lyrical method as a factor in preparatory education		1912	Anne Abbot Throop Craig, Percival Chubb, Peter W. Dykema
Dramatic moments in American history		1926	Elizabeth F. Hague, Mary Chalmers
Dramatic moments in American history: an historical dramatic reader for elelmentary grades and for junior high schools		1926	Elizabeth F. Hague, Mary Chalmers
The dramatization of Bible stories		1918	Elizabeth Erwin Miller, Elizabeth Erwin (Miller) Lobingier
Dramatized scenes from American history		1929	Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill, Augusta Stevenson
Drames et comédies		1915	Marguerite Duprès
Ducky Daddles and the three bears		1921	Bertha Parker Hall
Educational dramatics		1930	Donald MacLean Tower
The equipment of the school theater		1930	Milton Myers Smith
Everyday plays for home, school and settlement: Flowers in the palace garden, and other plays		1925	Virginia Olcott
Fairy tale plays		1916	Marguerite Merington
Fairyland and footlights: five children's plays		1925	M. A. (Moritz Adolph) Jagendorf, Stephen Haweis
Festival and civic plays from Greek and Roman tales		1926	Mari Ruef. Hofer
Festival plays: one-act pieces for New Year's day , St. Valentine's day, Easter, All Hallowe'en, Christmas and a child's birthday		1913	Marguerite Merington
Five plays and five pantomimes		1922	Sidney Baldwin, Mary Eose Donovan
French plays for children		1916	Josette Eugénie. Spink
French plays for small children		1928	Madeline C. Smallwood Baltimore, Madeline C. Smallwood
Fun with skits, stunts, and stories		1955	Helen Eisenberg, Larry Eisenberg
Fundamentals of play production		1949	Emanuel D. Schonberger
Goldtree and Silvertree: fairy plays to read and act		1925	Katharine Duncan Morse
The good health treasure book		1930	Leonore K. Dolan
The good Samaritan: and other Bible stories dramatized, illustrated with photographs by Harold Wagner		1915	Harold Wagner, Edna Earle Cole
Greek photoplays		1916	Effie Seachrest
Guide to play selection: a descriptive index of full-length and short plays for production by schools, colleges and little theaters		1934	Milton Myers Smith
Guki the moon boy: and other plays		1928	Decie Merwin, Beulah Folmsbee
A handbook for the amateur actor		1936	Van H. (Van Henry) Cartmell
The high school stunt show and carnival		1929	Harlan Tarbell, Willard B. Canopy
Holiday plays for home, school and settlement		1917	Virginia Olcott
Holiday plays for teen-agers: a collection of one-act, royalty-free plays for important occasions		1952	Helen Louise Miller, Helen Louise Miller Gotwalt
Household plays for young people		1928	Virginia Olcott, Florence Egan
How to present the Gilbert and Sullivan operas		1934	Albert Oliver Bassuk
How to produce amateur plays: a practical manual		1925	Barrett H. (Barrett Harper) Clark
How to produce amateur plays: a practical manual		1917	Barrett H. (Barrett Harper) Clark
How to produce amateur plays: a practical manual	New and rev. ed.	1923	Barrett H. (Barrett Harper) Clark
How to produce children's plays		1915	Constance D'Arcy. Mackay
Humorous plays for children		1925	Grace Sorenson
Imagination: and four other one act plays for boys and girls		1925	Warren Beck
Indoor and outdoor plays for children: including The magic sea shell		1933	John Chipman Farrar
Industrial plays for young people		1927	Virginia Olcott, Florence Egan
International plays for young people		1925	Virginia Olcott, Florence Egan
The jester's purse		1926	Nydia E. Minchin, Marian K. Brown, Ida M. Owen
Jolly plays for holidays: a collection of Christmas entertainments		1914	Carolyn Wells
Junior Latin plays		1922	Herbert C. (Herbert Chester) Nutting
Junior pageants: pageants and dramatic programs designed especially for junior groups		1927	Ada Rose. Demerest
Junior play-readings		1935	Louise M. (Louise Michelbacher) Frankenstein
Junior scenarios for home movies		1928
Lad, and other story-plays for children to read or to act		1926	Bertha Palmer Lane, Eosamond Lane
The lantern and other plays for children		1928	Abbie Farwell Brown
Le chevalier de blanchefleur et autres pieces: six petites comédies		1919	Eleanor W. Hutchison
Le théâtre d'amateurs: Manuel d'art théâtral		1919	Georges Villard
A legend of St		1927	Beulah Marie Dix.
Let's pretend: a book of children's plays		1917	Lindsey Barbee, Buckton Nendick
Lighting for the non-professional stage production		1931	A. L. (Alvin Leslie) Powell, Alston Rodgers
Little American history plays for little Americans; a dramatic reader for third and fourth grades		1919	Eleanore Hubbard
The little playbook		1920	Katharine Lord
Little plays for days our nation celebrates		1932
Little plays for everybody: short plays for grammar and high schools		1932	A. P. (Anne Putnam) Sanford
Little plays for little people		1929	Robert Haven Schauffler, A. P. (Anne Putnam) Sanford, Edward Sheldon
Little plays from Greek myths		1928	Eloise K. Dawley, Marie Oller
The little theatre in school		1930	Lillian Foster Collins
Makers of America: Hudson, Clark, Revere, Jackson, Fulton		1919	Archie Manner, Archie Marmer
Merely players		1932	William George Fay, Sir Barry Jackson
Modern theatre practice: a handbook for non-professionals		1935	Samuel Selden, Hunton Dade Sellman, Hubert C. Heffner
More fairy tale plays		1917	Marguerite Merington, Frances Delehanty
Musico-dramatic producing: a manual for the stage and musical director		1930	Charles T. H. Jones, Donald Wilson, Clark Fiers
New plays for every day the schools celebrate		1928	Minnie A. Niemeier
New plays for every day the schools celebrate		1929	Minnie A. Niemeier
New plays for every day the schools celebrate		1936	Minnie A. Niemeier
New plays for school children		1929	Margaret Knox, Anna May (Irwin) Lütkenhaus
Nine short plays: written for young people to stage		1928	M. A. (Moritz Adolph) Jagendorf, Madge Andersen, E. Welff
Old King Cole and other mediæval plays		1925	Mrs Josephine Elliott Krohn
Old songs and balladry for Girl Scouts		1930	Marjorie Edgar
On with the show		1937	Eleanor Wright Van Riper, Elizabeth Le May Wright
One-act festival plays		1936	William Nelson Viola
One-act plays of to-day: Second series		1926	F. Fenn, S. Houghton, H. Brighouse
Our children's stage: twelve little plays for children in the lower grades		1928	Yetta Klein, Florine Schwarz
Outdoor plays for boys and girls		1930	A. P. (Anne Putnam) Sanford
Pageants for the year		1928	J. H. (James Harvey) Shonkweiler, Henrietta Heron
The parish theatre: a brief account of its rise, its present condition, and its prospects, to which is added a descriptive list of one hundred choice plays suitable for the parish theatre		1917	John Talbot Smith
Patchwork plays		1930	Rachel Field
Patriotic plays for young people		1918	Virginia Olcott, Harriet Mead Olcott
The pirate of Pooh: and other plays for children		1936	Marjorie Barrows
The play book: an elementary book on stage technique with nine plays of various types and some suggestions for creative use of plays and playing		1937	Jean Carter, Jess Ogdon, Joe Magro
Playing theatre: six plays for children		1930	Clare Tree Major, Grace Allen
Plays and pageants for children		1925	Margaret Abbott Eaton Whiting
Plays and pageants for the church school		1929	Marie W. Johnson
Plays and puppet shows in which the parts are played by famous and familiar characters found in school stories and studies		1933
Plays for Anychild		1918	Fanny Ursula Payne
Plays for graduation days		1930	P. B. Corneau, C. Clements, P. Wilde
Plays for people and puppets		1928	Catherine F. Reighard
Plays for school and camp		1922	Katharine Lord
Plays for school children		1915	Margaret Knox, Anna M. Liitkenhaus, Mrs Anna May (Irwin) Lütkenhaus
Plays from American history		1925	John T. Fitzpatrick, Francis O'Ryan, Anna Wynne O'Ryan
Plays in pinafores: a very miscellaneous collection of plays for young people of all ages		1916
Plays on the old world backgrounds of American history: a dramatic reader for middle and upper grades		1935	Eleanore Hubbard, Lucretia Malcher
Plays, pantomimes and tableaux for children		1917	Nora Archibald Smith
Plum blossoms: and other plays for intermediate or older junior groups		1925	Elisabeth Edland
Practical stage directing for amateurs: a handbook for amateur managers and actors		1916	Emerson Gifford Taylor
Practical stage-craft: a manual for little theatre workers and directors of school dramatics		1930	Mary Helen Hynes
Preparation and presentation of the operetta		1930	Frank A. (Frank Ambrose) Beach
Primary playlets and dramatizations		1936	Louise Miller Novotny
Producing plays: a handbook for producers and players		1930	C. B. (Charles Benjamin) Purdom
The puppet princess		1915	Augusta Stevenson
Ready-made programs for every month		1928	Sarah Grames Clark
Recitations, drills and plays for children		1921	Bertha Irene Tobin
Red letter day plays		1921	Margaret Getchell Parsons, (Getchell), Mrs Margaret Colby Parsons
Ring up the curtain!: A collection of plays for children		1932	W. G. Robertson, Montrose Jonas Moses, J. Farrar
Ritual and dramatized folkways for use in camp, club, religious assembly, settlement and school		1925	Beatrice Becker, Ethel Reed. Jasspon
Robert E. Lee: a story and a play		1920	Ruth. Hill
Runnin' the show: a practical handbook		1930	Richard B. Whorf, Roger Wheeler
The Shady hill play book		1928	Henry Copley Greene, Katharine Taylor
Short plays about famous authors		1915	Maude Morrison Frank, Thomas Hood
Short plays for small players: a collection of entertainments for children of all ages		1915	Edith M. (Edith Maie) Burrows, Gladys Ruth Bridgham
The show book of Remo Bufano: seven plays for marionettes & people, one for every day		1929	Remo. Bufano
The snow image: and other plays for children suitable for stage or schoolroom		1914	Emmie Antoinette Luques, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Some little plays and how to act them		1928	Mary Ellen Whitney, Dorothy Saunders
Special day pageants for little people		1927	Katharine Isabel Bemis, Marion Kennedy
St. Nicholas book of plays & operettas		1916	Jessie M. Baker, Corinne R. Swain, Elizabeth Woodbridge
The stage and the school		1932	Katharine Anne. Ommanney
Stage management for the amateur theatre		1937	William Perdue Halstead
The steadfast princess: a play for young people		1916	Cornelia Meigs
Stunt night tonight!		1928	Catherine Miller Balm
Stunts of all lands		1930	Catherine Atkinson Miller, Catherine Miller Balm
Successful stunts: fifty short, impromptu dramatic stunts for social occasions		1929	Katherine (Katherine Ferris) Rohrbough
Ten little plays for little tots		1930	Edith Lombard Squires
Tested project plays for the grade school: a collection of plays for the class room		1929	Kate Alice White
Theater and school		1932	Isabel McReynolds Gray, Samuel James Hume, Lois M. Foster
Theatre for children	[3d ed., rev.]	1958	Winifred Ward
Three plays for a children's theatre		1927	J. A. Forsyth, Florence Kiper Frank
Tiny plays for tiny people		1921	E. M. Fotheringham, John Gemmell
The treasure chest: a children's fairy play		1922	Josephine Thorp
A treasury of plays for children		1921	Lady Gregory, Frances H. Burnett, Marguerite Merington
Variety shows and how to produce them		1941	Neil. Trimble
Ventures in dramatics with boys and girls of the church school		1935	Hulda Niebuhr
Vingt petites pièces		1932	Hélène Harvitt, Ethel F. Dlugo
What shall we play?: A dramatic reader		1916	Bert Valentine, Fannie Wyche Dunn
When mother let us act		1913	Stella G. S. (Stella George Stern) Perry, Ada Budell
Why we celebrate: holiday plays for young people		1927	Marjorie Woods
With puppets, mimes and shadows		1936	Margaret K. Soifer
Wonder clock plays: adapted for children from Howard Pyle's The wonder clock		1925	Sophie L. Goldsmith, Howard Pyle
World friendship plays for young people		1929	Virginia Olcott, Florence Egan