ts upon the characters. The cast of
characters should be written upon the board.

This exercise should be exactly like the preceding, except that it
adds the elements of developing the plot of the play, creating
suspense, impressing the climax, and satisfactorily rounding off the
play. In order to accomplish these important effects the participants
will soon discover that they must agree upon certain details to be
made most significant. This will lead to discussions about how to make
these points stand out. In the concerted attempt to give proper
emphasis to some line late in the play it will be found necessary to
suppress a possible emphasis of some line early in the action. To
reinforce a trait of some person, another character may have to be
made more self-assertive.

To secure this unified effect which every play should make the persons
involved will have to consider carefully every detail in lines and
stage directions, fully agree upon what impression they must strive
for, then heartily cooeperate in attaining it. They must forget
themselves to remember always that "the play's the thing."

The following list will suggest short plays suitable for informal
classroom training in dramatics. Most of these are also general enough
in their appeal to serve for regular production upon a stage before a
miscellaneous audience.

Aldrich, T.B. _Pauline Pavlovna_
Baring, M. _Diminutive Dramas_
Butler, E.P. _The Revolt_
Cannan, G. _Everybody's Husband_
Dunsany, Lord _Tents of the Arabs_
The Lost Silk Hat
Fame and the Poet_
Fenn and Pryce. _'Op-o-Me-Thumb_
Gale, Z. _Neighbors_
Gerstenberg, A. _Overtones_
Gibson, W. W. Plays in Collected Works
Gregory, Lady. _Spreading the News
The Workhouse Ward
Coats,_ etc.
Houghton, S. _The Dear Departed_
Jones, H. A. _Her Tongue_
Kreymborg, A. _Mannikin and Minnikin_
Moeller, P. _Pokey_
Quintero, J. and S.A. _A Sunny Morning_
Rice, C. _The Immortal Lure_
Stevens, T.W. _Ryland_
Sudermann, H. _The Far-Away Princess_
Tchekoff, A. _A Marriage Proposal_
Torrence, R. _The Rider of Dreams_
Walker, S. _Never-the-Less_
Yeats, W.B. _Cathleen N