BIG-HEARTED HERBERT

Farce-comedy. 3 acts.  By Sophie Kerr & Anna Steese Richardson. 7 males, 6 females.  Interior.  Modern costumes.

Herbert Kalness, the leading character, is a selfmade man.  His success and his belief in himself have unwittingly turned him into a domestic autocrat.  Moreover he prides himself on being a plain man and imagines that he lives plainly, though his devoted and charming wife has modernized and decorated their home quite successfully.  The day arrives when the daughter of the house becomes engaged, and at a dinner to celebrate the event, Herbert, who has been upset and worried all day about business, has a great big tantrum which even his wife can’t excuse.  So, the next day, when he proposes to bring his best customer and wife home to dinner—­assuring them that he is a plain man—­his wife turns the house plain to the nth degree and serves them a plain dinner in the plainest of ways.  In a final riotous scene Herbert realizes that he is not so plain, and that his life will be happier if he is more of a father and less of a tyrant.

(Royalty, $25.00.) Price, 75 cents.

FLY AWAY HOME

Comedy. 3 acts.  By Dorothy Bennett & Irving White. 7 males, 6 females.  Interior.  Modern costumes.

A comedy hit on Broadway.  The four Masters children, ranging in age from 14 to 19, are enjoying their usual summer sojourn at Provincetown.  Without much enthusiasm they are looking forward to the imminent marriage of their mother to the professor who has summered next door.  Then word comes that their mother, who is just completing the last two weeks of her contract as dress designer in a Hollywood motion picture studio, has invited their own father to visit them and make arrangements for a divorce.  They haven’t seen him for twelve years and they are determined he shan’t treat them like children.  James Masters, the father, comes.  Although he has a sense of humor and would sincerely like to make friends with his children, he antagonizes them at once.  For a week the father struggles against the professor and his influence.  After the various problems have been more or less solved the children suddenly decide that they prefer their own father as a member of the family and set to work in a businesslike way to help him win their mother back.

(Royalty, $25.00.) Price, 75 cents.

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

L.M.  Montgomery’s most popular novel, dramatized into a tender and amusing play in 3 acts by Alice Chadwicke. 4 males, 10 females, 1 interior set.  Modern costumes.