BOY, NOSKOWSKI - Cracovian nativity scenes for 1911 and 1912

BOY-[ZELEÑSKI Tadeusz],[NOSKOWSKI Witold] - The Cracovian Nativity Scene of the "Green Balloon" performed for the first time "in the Michalik's Den" on January 5, 1911. Written by Boy & Taper [pseud.] Fourth thousand. Cracow [1911]. Imprint of the authors. 8, s. [4], 76
[AND] BOY-[ZELEÑSKI Tadeusz],[NOSKOWSKI Witold] - The "Green Balloon" Cracovian nativity scene for the year 1912. Written by Boy & Taper [pseud.]. Cracow [1912]. Druk. Narod. 8, pp. 79. altogether bound in period fl.
Few marginalia. Good condition. Own stamp. The ex-libris of R. Chrząstowski. Item 1 - The Fourth Nativity of the Green Balloon. "It was already a big show, a normal performance stretched over two or three hours. It featured more than a dozen people, including Herod (F. A. Łat), Jacek Symbolewski [...], M. Y. Cielski [...], Grandfather-Solski and a number of others. The thing was broken into three acts with a prologue and an intermedium. In this way, the Nativity of the Green Balloon became a milestone in the evolution of the Cracovian nativity scene, which grew out of the sacred show a few centuries ago" (J. P. Gawlik "Back to the Den", Kr. 1961, pp. 104-106). Item 2 - "Another - even more extensive - nativity scene from 1912. - modeled on its older sister in construction and stage assumptions, no longer had the accuracy of its predecessor." (J. P. Gawlik "Return to the Den", Kr. 1961, p. 124).