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    Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act
    Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act
    Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act
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    Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act

    By Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Apthorp) McFadden and Raymond Macdonald Alden

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1989
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      Why the Chimes Rang - Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Apthorp) McFadden

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act

      by Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act

      Author: Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden

      Release Date: March 8, 2005 [EBook #15290]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHY THE CHIMES RANG: A PLAY ***

      Produced by David Garcia, Lynn Bornath and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

      Why The Chimes Rang

      A Play in One Act

      by Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden

      Adapted from the story of the same name

      by Raymond McDonald Alden

      Samuel French: Publisher

      25 West Forty-fifth Street: New York

      LONDON

      Samuel French, Ltd.

      26 SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND

      COPYRIGHT, 1915

      BY E.A. MCFADDEN

      WHY THE CHIMES RANG.

      This play is fully protected by copyright.

      Permission to act, read publicly or make any use of it must be obtained of Samuel French, 25 West 45th Street, New York. It may be presented by amateurs upon payment of the following royalties:

      1. This play may be presented by amateurs upon payment of a royalty of Five Dollars for each performance, payable to Samuel French, at 25 West 45th Street, New York, or at 811 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, Calif., one week before the date when the play is given.

      2. Professional rates quoted on application.

      3. Whenever this play is to be produced the following note must appear on all programs, printing and advertising for the play:

      This play is a dramatization of the story by Raymond MacDonald Alden entitled WHY THE CHIMES RANG, published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company.

      This version of Raymond MacDonald Alden's story is published with permission of the Bobbs-Merrill Company of Indianapolis, Indiana, the publishers of Professor Alden's story and the holders of the copyright.

      WARNING

      The copying, either of separate parts or the whole of this work by any process whatsoever, is forbidden by law and subject to the penalties prescribed by Section 28 of the Copyright Law, in force July 1, 1909.

      PREFACE.

      This little play is prentice work done in Professor George P. Baker's class, English 47 at Radcliffe College in the fall of 1908. Several years later it was staged by Professor Baker in the 47 Workshop, his laboratory for trying out plays written in the Harvard and Radcliffe courses in dramatic technique.

      I am glad to acknowledge here my indebtedness to the Shop and its workers for this chance of seeing the play in action. Of the various advantages which a Workshop performance secures to the author none is more helpful than the mass of written criticism handed in by the audience, and representing some two or three hundred frank and widely varying views of the work in question. I am especially grateful for this constructive criticism, much of which has been of real service in the subsequent rewriting of the piece.

      Why the Chimes Rang was again tried out the next year in seven performances by the Workshop company in various Boston settlements. Other groups of amateurs have given it in Arlington, Massachusetts, Los Angeles, California and in Honolulu. These performances have proved that while its setting may seem to call for the equipment of a theatre, the play can be acceptably given in any hall or Sunday school room.

      Suggestions for the simplest possible staging have been added to the present publication in an appendix which contains data on the scenery, music, lighting, costumes and properties for the piece.

      ELIZABETH APTHORP McFADDEN.

      WHY THE CHIMES RANG.

      CHARACTERS.

      HOLGER ........................... A peasant boy

      STEEN .............................. His younger brother

      BERTEL ........................... Their uncle

      AN OLD WOMAN

      LORDS, LADIES, etc.—

      TIME:—Dusk of a day of long ago.

      SCENE:—The interior of a wood-chopper's hut on the edge of a forest.

      Why the Chimes Rang.

      The scene is laid in a peasant's hut on the edge of a forest near a cathedral town. It is a dark low-raftered room lit only by the glowing wood fire in the great fireplace in the wall to the right, and by a faint moonlight that steals in through the little window high in the left wall. This window commands a view of the cathedral and of the road leading down into the town. The only entrance into the hut is the front door near the window.

      The furnishings are few: two substantial stools, one near the window, the other before the fire, logs piled up near the hearth, and on the chimney shelf above a few dishes, three little bowls, three spoons and a great iron porridge pot. A wooden peg to the right of the chimney holds Steen's cap and cape, one to the left an old shawl. Near the door Holger's cap and cape hang from a third peg.

      Despite its poverty the room is full of beautiful coloring as it lies half hidden in deep shadow save where the light of

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