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Alice in Wonderland

A dramatization of Lewis Carroll's
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and
"Through the Looking Glass"

By Alice Gerstenberg

Author of "The Conscience of Sarah Platt",
"Unquenched Fire," "A Little World," etc.

Chicago
A.C.Mc.Clurg & Co.
1915

Copyright
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1915

Published December, 1915

Rights to produce this play in all countries of the world
are reserved by Alice Gerstenberg

W. F. MAEL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO

This dramatic rendering of _Alice in Wonderland_, by Alice Gerstenberg of Chicago, was produced by The Players Producing Company of Chicago (Aline Barnsdall and Arthur Bissell), at the Fine Arts Theater, Chicago, February 11, 1915. After a successful run it opened at the Booth Theater, New York, March 23, 1915.

The scenery and the costumes were designed by William Penhallow Henderson of Chicago.

The music was written by Eric De Lamarter of Chicago.

The advertising posters and cards were designed by Jerome Blum of Chicago.

The illustrations of the characters of the play in this book were drawn by J. Allen St. John from photographs by Victor Georg of Chicago.

W. H. Gilmore staged the play with the following cast:

LEWIS CARROLL Frank Stirling
ALICE Vivian Tobin
RED QUEEN Florence LeClercq
WHITE QUEEN Mary Servoss
WHITE RABBIT Donald Gallaher
HUMPTY DUMPTY Alfred Donohoe
GRYPHON Fred W. Permain
MOCK TURTLE Geoffrey Stein
MAD HATTER Geoffrey Stein
MARCH HARE Fred W. Permain
DORMOUSE J. Gunnis Davis
FROG FOOTMAN Walter Kingsford
DUCHESS Kenyon Bishop
CHESHIRE CAT Alfred Donohoe
KING OF HEARTS Frederick Annerly
QUEEN OF HEARTS Winifred Hanley
KNAVE OF HEARTS Foxhall Daingerfield
CATERPILLAR Walter Kingsford
TWO OF SPADES Rule Pyott
FIVE OF SPADES France Bendtsen
SEVEN OF SPADES John A. Rice

Alice in Wonderland

THE SCENES

ACT I

Scene I--Alice's Home.
Scene II--The Room in the Looking Glass.
Scene III--The Hall with Doors.
Scene IV--The Sea Shore.

ACT II

Scene----The March Hare's Garden.

ACT III

Scene I--The Garden of Flowers.
Scene II--The Court of Hearts.
Scene III--Alice's Home.

Miss Gerstenberg's manuscript called for costumes after the illustrations of John Tenniel, and scenery of the simple imaginative type, the "new art" in the theater.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Alice in Wonderland

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