YEATS, Elizabeth Corbet. Snow-White and Rose-Red. A Play for Children. A Play in two acts (With apologies to the Shades of the Brothers Grimm).

EXTREMELY RARE THREE CANDLES ITEM

Designed and hand-painted by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. Dublin: Printed at the Sign of the Three Candles, Fleet Street, [1936]. First and only edition. Oblong octavo. pp. 28, [2]. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Inscribed on upper cover and front free endpaper. A very good copy. Extremely rare.

No copy located on COPAC.
The NLI copy cites George Hill Tulloch as the Main Creator. Mr Tulloch's [of Bushy Park Road, Terenure, was Director of the Bank of Ireland and also managed the books of Abbey Theatre from 1923 to the late1930s.
The Note on verso of title states: ""This is a Play for performance by young people for an audience of young people, and one that young people can easily produce for themselves, at home or at school, with a little help from their elders. It is simply a dramatised version of the well-known story in 'Grimm's Fairy Tales', and the author has used, wherever possible, the actual words of the story; but the giving of speech to the two rose-trees is his own idea. The verse beginning White and Red together bind is based on the tradition that roses were created to remind us of the Garden of Eden. That roses first fell from heaven and are the emblems of enduring love, is also traditional. The rather obscure lines about the virgin martyr were suggested by a tale in Sir John Mandeville's Travels. The stage directions throughout the little play indicate sufficiently the appropriate costumes to be worn by the young actors. The Bear is, of course, a difficulty. Uncle George hired a realistic disguise from Burkinshaw's of Liverpool, and was so fascinated by the bear's somewhat ferocious features that he bought it 'for keeps'. But if the funds don't run to hiring or buying, a boy or girl concealed in a furry rug could very well impersonate the part by keeping his or her head away from the audience, and speaking in a growling voice. The author wishes to thank Dr. Larchet for permission to reproduce the music very kindly composed by him for the private production of the play in April, 1933. The programme used on that occasion, also here reproduced, was designed by Miss E. C. Yeats and printed and hand-painted by Cuala Industries. The net receipts from the sale of this edition will be divided equally between St. Mary's Hospital, Cappagh, and the National Children's Hospital, Harcourt Street. Dublin, October, 1935.

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