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waist to hem. For headdresses, use striped cloth; draw the two front ends under the cloth and pin at the back of the head.
For Babylonian costumes, take several yards of material; sew fringe to the ends and one side; pin one end of the goods at the back of model; wind goods about waist of model so as to form a skirt, and pin to end of goods; carry the rest of the goods around, under right arm, over left shoulder, about neck, over right arm; tuck in and hold in place by a three-inch belt. For head-gear use tall caps rather resembling a sugar loaf. Use heavy white canvas; this may be painted or fringed.
Try to use strong, bright colors, with white and black and brown. Avoid navy blue, turkey red, baby blue or pink. Try to use the same color-values.
SCENERY
A sea-blue curtain is the one essential.
NOAH'S FLOOD
THE PEOPLE
- Messenger of God.
- Noah.
- His Wife.
- Shem.
- Ham.
- Japheth.
- Wives of Shem, Ham, Japheth.
- Idolaters.
- Animals.
(The number and kind of animals must be left to the costumer. Where the animals mentioned in the play are left out, mention of them must be omitted.)
THE PLACE
- Scene I. The building place of the Ark.
- Scene II. Mount Ararat.
The Ark may be built on a framework of wood, covered with cloth to represent a child's toy. Bright colors are preferable, such as gray and scarlet. Or the Ark may be cut out of wall board. A door on hinges must be cut in the side, also a window. A gangplank may lead up to door. If the play is given indoors, a blue back-drop may be used against which colored lights may be thrown, to indicate storm. If given out of doors, a blue, smiling sky is always desirable.
Thin tarlatan may be cut in the shape, and painted to represent the rainbow, and stretched on a curved bit of wire.
THE PROPERTIES
- A hammer and nails.
- Fruit.
- Pitchers and platters of food.
- A rainbow.
- An idol.
- A few stones for altar.
- Two doves or pigeons.
- A Flood Curtain.
Trees, such as are seen in a child's Noah's Ark, may be cut out of wood and painted a vivid green. These will aid the picture.
NOAH'S FLOOD
(Taken in large measure from the play by Ranulf Higden of Saint Werburg's, Chester. A. D. 1299-1364.)
Scene I. The building place of the Ark.
(The three Sons of Noah enter and work upon the ark with hammer and nails, or any building tools. Occasionally comes a distant cry of, "Ho, ho! Ark-builders!" They look up impatiently. Presently some impish Children run in.)
First Child (jeeringly): Ark-builders, ark-builders, where is your wit?
Second Child: Ark-builders, ark-builders, when do you flit?
(Shem and Ham drop their tools and chase the children out, following them. Japheth continues his work at the door. Presently the children reappear, entering from the other side.)
Children (laughing merrily and pointing at ark): Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!
(Japheth goes inside and slams the door.)
Third Child: Ark-builder, ark-builder, come out again.
Children: Ark-builder, ark-builder, where is your rain? (They run out.)
(Noah comes out of the door and looks anxiously up at the sky. The Messenger enters; Noah bends prostrate.)
Messenger:
Heaven and earth and all of naught,
Sees his people in deed and thought
Are lost in sin.
Man that he made he will destroy,
Saving a few who are his joy,
And have his servants been.
Noah, a righteous man thou be,
A ship hast thou ma-de me,
Of trees dry and stout.
Three hundred cubits is it long,
And fifty broad to make it strong,
Of height fifty, lest it be wrong,
Thus measure it about.
One window's made with skill and wit,
A cubit of length and breadth is it;
A door upon the side doth sit,
For to come in and out.
Destroy-ed all the world shall be,
Save thou, thy wife and children three;
And their three wives also with thee,
Shall live without a doubt.
(The Messenger goes.)
Noah (rising and raising arms to heaven):
That savest me from all man-kind.
(Calls.)
Hie ye, lest the water fall.
Shem, Ham, Japheth, come ye here!
Haste ye, haste ye, son-nes