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TWO NEW BOOKS BY PERCY MACKAYE
The New Citizenship
Boards 16° $.50
"The New Citizenship" is a pageant ceremony, or ritual,
to present in dramatic form the importance and the dignity
of citizenship in the United States. The pageant may be
used indoors or out-of-doors, by day or by night, on a scale
simple or elaborate, but it is especially suitable for presentation
on a large scale in an out-door stadium at night. The
invitation into citizenship is too often a stereotyped formality;
it is here presented as a dramatic event of serious significance.
It is particularly well adapted for use in schools, especially
where there is a large foreign element.
A Substitute for War
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"My object in this essay is to suggest that the 'moral equivalent
of war' can be made fascinating and effectual by utilizing
the dynamic arts of the theatre to give it symbolical expression."
Civic pageantry is capable of redirecting waste energies
which now go towards the drama by war. It satisfies man's
needs for color and rhythm, for sacrifice and consecration, for
companionship and communal effort. The author writes as
one who has succeeded in creative work along the lines of his
theories.
OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Cloth, 12mo, $1.25
The Present Hour.
The Canterbury Pilgrims.
Fenris the Wolf.
A Garland to Sylvia.
The Scarecrow.
The Sistine Eve. New Edition.
Sappho and Phaon.
Mater.
Jeanne d'Arc.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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