Five Little Plays The Man in the Stalls Public Domain Free Audiobooks Alfred Sutro

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five little plays by alfred sutro the man in the stalls the persons of the play hector allen read by bruce peary walter cousins read by mb elizabeth allen and narration read by elizabeth clatt the sitting room of a little flat in shaftsbury avenue at back is a door leading to the dining room it is open and the dinner table is in full view of the audience to the extreme right is another door leading to the hall the place is pleasantly and pretty though quite inexpensively furnished to the left at angles with the distempered wall is a baby grand piano the fireplace in which a fire is burning merrily is on the same side full center to the right of the door leading to the dining room is a small side table on which there is a tray with decanter and glasses in front of this a card table open with two packs of cards on it and chairs on each side another table a round one is in the center of the room two right and to left of it are comfortable armchairs against the right wall is a long sofa above it hang a few good watercolors and engravings on the piano and the table there are flowers a general appearance of refinement and comfort pervades the room no luxury but evidence everywhere of good taste and the countless feminine touches that make a room home homelike and pleasant when the curtain rises hector allen a youngish man of forty with an attractive intellectual face is seen standing by the dining table in the inner room draining his liqueur glass with walter cousins to the right of him lighting a cigarette walter is a few years younger than his friend moderately good looking with fine curly brown hair and a splendid silky mustache his morning clothes are conspicuously well cut he is evidently something of a dandy hector wears a rather shabby dress suit his boots are awkward and his tie ready made betty a handsome woman of 30 wearing a very pretty tea gown is talking to the maid at the back of the dining room hector puts down his glass and comes into the sitting room followed by walter hector is puffing at a short stumpy little black cigar hector talking as he comes through continuing the conversation he walks to the fireplace and stands with his back to it i tell you if i'd known what it meant i'd never have taken the job sounded so fine to be reader of plays for the duke's theater advisor to the great mr honeyswell and then when the old man said i was to go to all the first nights why i just chortled it's the first nights that show you the grip of the thing that teach you most he said teach you as though there were anything to learn oh my stars i tell you it's a dog's life walter sitting to left of the round table i'd change places with you sonny you were they that's what they all say four new plays this week my lad one yesterday one today another tomorrow and the night after all day long i'm reading plays and i spend my night seeing them do you know i read about 2 000 a year divide two thousand by three hundred and sixty-five a dog's life that's what it is better than being a stockbroker's clock you believe me is it i wish you could have a turn at it my bonnie boy your hair'd go gray like mine and look here what are the plays today they're either so chock full of intellect that they send you to sleep or they reek a sentiment till you yearn for the smell of a cabbage well you've the change at any rate change bye jove give me a punch and judy show on the sands or performing dogs please i'm sick of them and look here the one i'm off to tonight it's adapted from the french well we know what that means husband wife and mistress or wife husband lover that's what a french play means and you make it english and pass the censer by putting the lady in a...

Five Little Plays The Man in the Stalls Public Domain Free Audiobooks Alfred Sutro

the man in the stalls by alfred sutro this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information and to volunteer please visit librivox.org

five little plays by alfred sutro the man in the stalls the persons of the play hector allen read by bruce peary walter cousins read by mb elizabeth allen and narration read by elizabeth clatt the sitting room of a little flat in shaftsbury avenue at back is a door leading to the dining room it is open and the dinner table is in full view of the audience to the extreme right is another door leading to the hall the place is pleasantly and pretty though quite inexpensively furnished to the left at angles with the distempered wall is a baby grand piano the fireplace in which a fire is burning merrily is on the same side full center to the right of the door leading to the dining room is a small side table on which there is a tray with decanter and glasses in front of this a card table open with two packs of cards on it and chairs on each side another table a round one is in the center of the room two right and to left of it are comfortable armchairs against the right wall is a long sofa above it hang a few good watercolors and engravings on the piano and the table there are flowers a general appearance of refinement and comfort pervades the room no luxury but evidence everywhere of good taste and the countless feminine touches that make a room home homelike and pleasant when the curtain rises hector allen a youngish man of forty with an attractive intellectual face is seen standing by the dining table in the inner room draining his liqueur glass with walter cousins to the right of him lighting a cigarette walter is a few years younger than his friend moderately good looking with fine curly brown hair and a splendid silky mustache his morning clothes are conspicuously well cut he is evidently something of a dandy hector wears a rather shabby dress suit his boots are awkward and his tie ready made betty a handsome woman of 30 wearing a very pretty tea gown is talking to the maid at the back of the dining room hector puts down his glass and comes into the sitting room followed by walter hector is puffing at a short stumpy little black cigar hector talking as he comes through continuing the conversation he walks to the fireplace and stands with his back to it i tell you if i'd known what it meant i'd never have taken the job sounded so fine to be reader of plays for the duke's theater advisor to the great mr honeyswell and then when the old man said i was to go to all the first nights why i just chortled it's the first nights that show you the grip of the thing that teach you most he said teach you as though there were anything to learn oh my stars i tell you it's a dog's life walter sitting to left of the round table i'd change places with you sonny you were they that's what they all say four new plays this week my lad one yesterday one today another tomorrow and the night after all day long i'm reading plays and i spend my night seeing them do you know i read about 2 000 a year divide two thousand by three hundred and sixty-five a dog's life that's what it is better than being a stockbroker's clock you believe me is it i wish you could have a turn at it my bonnie boy your hair'd go gray like mine and look here what are the plays today they're either so chock full of intellect that they send you to sleep or they reek a sentiment till you yearn for the smell of a cabbage well you've the change at any rate change bye jove give me a punch and judy show on the sands or performing dogs please i'm sick of them and look here the one i'm off to tonight it's adapted from the french well we know what that means husband wife and mistress or wife husband lover that's what a french play means and you make it english and pass the censer by putting the lady in a...

Old School Rhymes and Songs for Children Famous Public Domain Audio Books

Old School Rhymes and Songs for Children Famous Public Domain Audio Books

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poems every child should know edited by mary e bert section four read for librivox.org by kara shallenberg this section contains the following poems how the leaves came down we willy winky and the owl and the pussycat part one continued how the leaves came down how the leaves came down by susan coolidge born 1845 appeals to children because it helps to reconcile them to going to bed i go to bed by day is one of the crosses of childhood i'll tell you how the leaves came down the great tree to his children said you're getting sleepy yellow and brown yes very sleepy little red it is quite time to go to bed ah begged each silly pouting leaf let us a little longer stay dear father tree behold our grief tis such a very pleasant day we do not want to go away so for just one more merry day to the great tree the leaflets clung frolicked and danced and had their way upon the autumn breezes swung whispering all their sports among perhaps the great tree will forget and let us stay until the spring if we all beg and coax and fret but the great tree did no such thing he smiled to hear their whispering come children all to bed he cried and air the leaves could urge their prayer he shook his head and far and wide fluttering and rustling everywhere downsped the leaflets through the air i saw them on the ground they lay golden and red a huddled swarm waiting till one from far away white bedclothes heaped upon her arm should come to wrap them safe and warm the great bare tree looked down and smiled good night dear little leaves he said and from below each sleepy child replied good night and murmured it is so nice to go to bed susan coolidge

wee willy wee willy winky by william miller 1810-1872 is included in this volume out of respect to an eight-year-old child who chose it from among hundreds we had one poetry hour every week and he studied and recited it with unabated interest to the end of the year

wee willy winky rinse through the town upstairs and downstairs in his niched gown turling at the window crying at the lock are the wanes in their bed for it's now ten o'clock hey willy winky are you coming ben the cat's singing gay thrombs to the sleeping hen the dog spelled her on the floor and disney a cheap but here's a wildcraft laddie that winner far asleep anything but sleepy rogue blowering like the moon rattling in an iron jug wear an air and spoon rumbling tumbling roundabout crowing like a [ __ ] skirling like a canna what walking and sleeping folk hey willy winky the wanes in a creel wombling off a body's knee like a very eel rugging at the cat's lug and raveling at her throms hey willy-winky see there he comes where is the mither that has a starry ween a wee strumpy stousy that has a battle eye with sleep before he'll close an a but i kiss frey off his rosy lips keys strengthen you to me william miller

the owl and the pussycat the owl and the pussycat by edward lear 1812 to 1888 is placed here because i once found that a timid child was much strengthened and developed by learning it it is a song that appeals to the imagination of children and they like to sing it the owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat they took some honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five pound note the owl looked up to the moon above and sang to a small guitar oh lovely [ __ ] oh [ __ ] my love what a beautiful [ __ ] you are you are what a beautiful [ __ ] you are

[ __ ] said to the owl you elegant fowl how wonderfully sweet you sing oh let us be married too long we have tarried but what shall we do for a ring they sailed away for a year and a day to the land where the bong tree grows and there in a wood a piggy wig stood with a ring in the end of his nose his nose with a ring in the end of his nose dear pig are you willing to sell for one shilling your ring said the piggy i will so they took it away and...

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poems every child should know edited by mary e bert section four read for librivox.org by kara shallenberg this section contains the following poems how the leaves came down we willy winky and the owl and the pussycat part one continued how the leaves came down how the leaves came down by susan coolidge born 1845 appeals to children because it helps to reconcile them to going to bed i go to bed by day is one of the crosses of childhood i'll tell you how the leaves came down the great tree to his children said you're getting sleepy yellow and brown yes very sleepy little red it is quite time to go to bed ah begged each silly pouting leaf let us a little longer stay dear father tree behold our grief tis such a very pleasant day we do not want to go away so for just one more merry day to the great tree the leaflets clung frolicked and danced and had their way upon the autumn breezes swung whispering all their sports among perhaps the great tree will forget and let us stay until the spring if we all beg and coax and fret but the great tree did no such thing he smiled to hear their whispering come children all to bed he cried and air the leaves could urge their prayer he shook his head and far and wide fluttering and rustling everywhere downsped the leaflets through the air i saw them on the ground they lay golden and red a huddled swarm waiting till one from far away white bedclothes heaped upon her arm should come to wrap them safe and warm the great bare tree looked down and smiled good night dear little leaves he said and from below each sleepy child replied good night and murmured it is so nice to go to bed susan coolidge

wee willy wee willy winky by william miller 1810-1872 is included in this volume out of respect to an eight-year-old child who chose it from among hundreds we had one poetry hour every week and he studied and recited it with unabated interest to the end of the year

wee willy winky rinse through the town upstairs and downstairs in his niched gown turling at the window crying at the lock are the wanes in their bed for it's now ten o'clock hey willy winky are you coming ben the cat's singing gay thrombs to the sleeping hen the dog spelled her on the floor and disney a cheap but here's a wildcraft laddie that winner far asleep anything but sleepy rogue blowering like the moon rattling in an iron jug wear an air and spoon rumbling tumbling roundabout crowing like a [ __ ] skirling like a canna what walking and sleeping folk hey willy winky the wanes in a creel wombling off a body's knee like a very eel rugging at the cat's lug and raveling at her throms hey willy-winky see there he comes where is the mither that has a starry ween a wee strumpy stousy that has a battle eye with sleep before he'll close an a but i kiss frey off his rosy lips keys strengthen you to me william miller

the owl and the pussycat the owl and the pussycat by edward lear 1812 to 1888 is placed here because i once found that a timid child was much strengthened and developed by learning it it is a song that appeals to the imagination of children and they like to sing it the owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat they took some honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five pound note the owl looked up to the moon above and sang to a small guitar oh lovely [ __ ] oh [ __ ] my love what a beautiful [ __ ] you are you are what a beautiful [ __ ] you are

[ __ ] said to the owl you elegant fowl how wonderfully sweet you sing oh let us be married too long we have tarried but what shall we do for a ring they sailed away for a year and a day to the land where the bong tree grows and there in a wood a piggy wig stood with a ring in the end of his nose his nose with a ring in the end of his nose dear pig are you willing to sell for one shilling your ring said the piggy i will so they took it away and...

Kids Poems to Learn and Know Traditional English Audio Books Public Domain

Kids Poems to Learn and Know Traditional English Audio Books Public Domain

This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may be unfamiliar. Most of the poems in this collection are short enough for children to memorize.

This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may be unfamiliar. Most of the poems in this collection are short enough for children to memorize.