The Christmas Story

Excerpt from The Christmas Story: A Play in Four Scenes With due regard to costuming, remember that the Jewish interpretation of the Second Command ment allowed only circles, squares, or dots as orna ments or patterns in their clothing, but that beautiful colors, such as scarlet, blue, and purple, were used. There was the tunic, and over that a sort of coat, and then the turban or covering on the head to pro teet them from the sun. Sandals were worn on the feet. (good ideas can be obtained from the famous Tissot pictures.) The shepherds wore garments of skins, while Herod wore royal robes, and his cour tiers, the Roman toga. On the other hand, the simplest presentation of the Christmas (the Mass of the Anointed One) would be wonderful, for it is a spiritual drama. Its theme is the redemption of the world through love by the means of the most helpless, and yet the most powerful thing in the world, a little child. Its stage is the human heart. A platform, an armchair for Herod's throne, an improvised manger or cradle, and the real desire of a community, children and adults, to perform the Christmas Story in all sincerity - these are necessary. 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.