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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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