Excerpt from Readings and Scenes From David Copperfield: Sixteen Readings and Twelve Scences for Twelve Girls A long stage may be made very attractive by furnishing two thirds of it as a reader's stage and enclosing the other third, by means of curtains, for the acting. Indeed, this is the preferable arrangement, as the readings make up the body of the entertain ment, and the scenes serve mainly to brighten and relieve the program. As a support for the curtain which divides the stage, stretch a wire from the front-curtain wire to a screw at the back of the stage. The curtains should be closed while the readers are telling the story, and promptly drawn open at the tap of a bell by the teacher or director, who sits behind a screen at the opposite side of the stage, to prompt the reader if such necessity should arise, and to tap the bell for the drawing of the curtains at the begin ning and the end of scenes. The reader's stage may be decorated by a tasteful arrangement of rugs, chairs, tables, lamps, and palms, or other oral decora tions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."