Give Christmas Plays "Mother Goose and Santa Claus"; "King Sneezles"
A gaily chattering audience of fathers and mothers, uncles, aunts and cousins, and, of course, the childdren themselves, filled the auditorium of the Vu Yuen Road public School for Girls yesterday evening when two Christmas plays were presented to mark the end of the Christmas term. Such happy gatherings are a great feature of the festive season in Shanghai. Christmases may be gay or otherwise, peaceful or warlike, but these end-of-term performances are perennial and give an assurance that "life goes on" as the saying is. Probably among the audience were parents who had been children playing on the stage themselves not so many years ago.
The cast of the first play, which was performed by the little ones, was as follows:
"Mother Goose and Santa Claus"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.