nny Segal's self-sacrifice for her sister and
lover is carried to a strange and morbid extreme.
In _Six Plays of the Yiddish Theatre_, Luce.
+Graham Pryce+
THE COMING OF FAIR ANNIE: A simple but effective dramatization of
the old ballad.
Gowans and Gray.
+Richard Pryce and Arthur Morrison+
THE DUMB CAKE: A St. Agnes' Eve story in a London slum.
French.
+Serafin and Joaquim Quintero+
A SUNNY MOHNING: Two very old people recall the tremendously
romantic happenings of their early youth.
In _Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays_, Stewart and Kidd.
+Edwin Arlington Robinson+
VAN ZORN: A play of New York studio life in which Van Zorn puts
his own desires out of court and plays providence in the lives of
his friends.
Macmillan.
+Santiago Rosinol+
THE PRODIGAL DOLL: A comical marionette sows his wild oats most
violently and repents in deep sorrow.
In _Drama_, February, 1917, 5:15.
+Edmond Rostand+
CYRANO DE BERGERAC: A great play of a swashbuckling hero of the
Paris of Moliere's time.
Doubleday; also in Dickinson's Contemporary Dramatists, I,
Houghton Mifflin.
L'AIGLON: The tragic story of Napoleon's son, the little King of
Rome, captive among enemies determined to tame his spirit.
Harper.
THE PRINCESS FAR-AWAY: The story of the Troubadour Rudel and the
Princess of Tripoli, celebrated in one of Browning's poems,
represents all worship of what is beyond attainment.
Stokes.
THE ROMANCERS: The foolish and romantic notions of two lovers are
ably caricatured by their fathers' plots and stratagems.
Baker, 1906.
+Arthur Schnitzler+
LAST MASKS: A dying man in the Vienna Hospital contrives an
opportunity for the cruel stroke he has intended at a man who has
succeeded where he himself has failed; at the moment of possible
triumph a different mood controls him. There are three excellent
studies of character in the play.
In _Anatol and Other Plays_, Boni and Liveright.
+George Bernard Shaw+
ANDROCLES AND THE LION: The old story of a saint whom the lion
remembered as his friend--with much shrewd light upon certain
types of early Christians.
Constable.
CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA: New views of the chief characters,
introduced by two interesting scenes--of a garrison in Syria by
night and of Cleopatra in the arms of the Sphinx.
In _Three Plays for Puritans_, Constable.
THE MAN OF DESTINY: Napoleon after Lodi, attacking all courses of
his dinner simultan
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