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dier nephew to work and live according to his views; he then faces the problem in reality. In First Plays, Knopf. THE LUCKY ONE: The Lucky One fails to win a trick he had counted on, but his chorus of relatives--surely related to Sir Willoughby Patterne's--do not even notice the misfortune. _Ibid._ WURZEL-FLUMMERY: Of two men offered a good-sized fortune by a will provided they will adopt Wurzel-Flummery in place of their own more satisfactory surnames, and of their decision. _Ibid._ +Allan Monkhouse+ NIGHT WATCHES: A quiet and vivid picturing of the potential cruelty and frightfulness of ordinary well-meaning ignorance and terror; the fable reminds one of Galsworthy's "The Black Godmother," in The Inn of Tranquillity. In War Plays, Constable, London. +William Vaughn Moody+ THE FAITH HEALER: A serious drama presenting in moving and human fashion the effects of faith and disillusion. Macmillan. +Dhan Gopal Mukerji+ THE JUDGMENT or INDRA: A Hindu play, in which a priest of Indra, after making a supreme sacrifice of himself and others in order to root out human affection from his heart, thinks that his god speaks in the lightning of the storm that ensues. In Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays, edited by Shay and Loving. Stewart and Kidd. +Tracy Mygatt+ GOOD FRIDAY: A Passion Play. A powerful tragedy of the conscientious objector. Published by the author, 23 Bank Street, New York, N.Y. +Alfred Noyes+ SHERWOOD: A poetical play of Robin Hood and his band. Stokes. +Eugene O'Neill+ BEYOND THE HORIZON: The Pulitzer Prize Play, 1920. A tragic story of a young man who longed to seek romance "beyond the horizon," and could find neither that nor any happiness, but only defeat and misery, in his everyday surroundings. Boni and Liveright. BOUND EAST FOR CARDIFF: The injury and death of a forecastle hand, illuminating the varying natures of his shipmates. In Moon of the Caribbees, Boni and Liveright. IN THE ZONE: Suspicion of treachery in the submarine zone, directed against a sailor who is different from the rest in the forecastle. _Ibid._ WHERE THE CROSS IS MADE: An old sailor goes mad waiting futilely for the return of a treasure expedition he has sent out, and the madness of his idea spreads like panic. _Ibid._ +Hubert Osborne+ THE GOOD MEN DO: AN INDECOROUS EPILOGUE: Shakespeare's family carefully burn his surviving plays in the effort to
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