Successful Rural Plays
A Strong List From Which to Select Your Next Play
Farm Folks. A Rural Play in Four Acts, by Arthur Lewis Tubbs. For five male and six female characters. Time of playing, two hours and a half. One simple exterior, two easy interior scenes. Costumes, modern. Flora Goodwin, a farmer‘s daughter, is engaged to Philip Burleigh, a young New Yorker. Philip‘s mother wants him to marry a society woman, and by falsehoods makes Flora believe Philip does not love her. Dave Weston, who wants Flora himself, helps the deception by intercepting a letter from Philip to Flora. She agrees to marry Dave, but on the eve of their marriage Dave confesses, Philip learns the truth, and he and Flora are reunited. It is a simple plot, but full of speeches and situations that sway an audience alternately to tears and to laughter.
Home Ties. A Rural Play in Four Acts, by Arthur Lewis Tubbs. Characters, four male, five female. Plays two hours and a half. Scenic, a simple interior same for all four acts. Costumes, modern. One of the strongest plays Mr. Tubbs has written. Martin Winn‘s wife left him when his daughter Ruth was a baby, Harold Vincent, the nephew and adopted son of the man who has wronged Martin, makes love to Ruth Winn. She is also loved by Len Everett, a prosperous young farmer When Martin discovers who Harold is, he orders him to leave Ruth. Harold, who does not love sincerely, yields. Ruth discovers she loves Len, but thinks she has lost him also. Then he comes back, and Ruth finds her happiness.
The Old New Hampshire Home. A New England Drama in Three Acts, by Frank Dumont, For seven males and four females. Time, two hours and a half. Costumes, modern, A play with a strong heart interest and pathos, yet rich in humor. Easy to act and very effective. A rural drama of the “Old Hamstead” and “Way Down East” type. Two exterior scenes, one interior, all easy to set. Full of strong situations and delightfully humorous passages. The kind of a play everybody understands and likes.
The Old Dairy Homestead. A Rural Comedy in Three Acts, by Frank Dumont. For five males and four females, Tine, two hours. Rural costumes. Scenes rural exterior and interior. An adventurer obtains a large sum of money from a farm house through the intimidation of the farmer‘s niece, whose husband he claims to be Her escapes from the wiles of the villain and his female accomplice are both starting and novel.
A White Mountain Boy. A Strong Melodrama in Five Acts, by Charles Townsend. For seven males and four females, and three supers. Time, two hours and twenty minutes. One exterior, three interiors. Costumes easy. The hero, a country lad, twice saves the life of a banker's daughter, which results in their betrothal. A scoundrelly clerk has the banker in his power, but the White Mountain boy finds a way to checkmate his schemes, saves the banker, and wins the girl.
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