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Anna A. Gordon, The Children's Tribute to the Prohibition States: A Prohibition Playlet, National WCTU Publishing House, ca. 1916

Anna Gordon, Frances Willard’s personal secretary and fourth president of the WCTU, authored many stories, verse, and songs for children. Sales of her…

Tags: Anna Gordon, children, drama, Frances Willard, pageant, play, playlet, prohibition, temperance, theater, twentieth century, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union

Mrs. W. P. Chase, The Crusade Story: A Pageant, National WCTU Publishing House, ca. 1925

This pageant is an adaptation of the story of the Woman’s Crusade as described by Elizabeth Putnam Gordon in Women Torch-Bearers: The Story of the…

Tags: adaptation, drama, nineteenth century, pageant, temperance, theater, twentieth century, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union, women's crusade

Doris Smith, The Spirit of Frances Willard: A Pageant, National WCTU Publishing House, 1923

Doris Smith’s “pageant play of Health and Temperance” was written “particularly for Frances Willard Day in our public schools.” Frances Willard is to…

Tags: children, drama, Frances Willard, pageant, temperance, theater, twentieth century, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union

George Melville Baker, The Temperance Drama

George Melville Baker’s collection features eight original temperance dramas that were also published separately “for the convenience of performers.”…

Tags: blackface, drama, farce, George baker, George melville baker, nineteenth century, parlor drama, parlor guide, temperance, theater

Jane Good, The Uncrowned Queen, Northwestern School of Speech, 1939

The Uncrowned Queen was advertised to Woman’s Clubs, Parent-Teacher Associations, churches, “Business and Professional Women’s clubs” and other groups…

Tags: children, creative drama, drama, elocution, Frances Willard, monologue, northwestern university, solo performance, temperance, theater, twentieth century, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union