An outstanding success on Broadway.  Its theme is the battle for power that goes on in an old New York family and culminates on the verge of murder.  “This one deserves especial thanks and hearty praises.  It returns us to expertness and fascination and fine mood in the theater.”  Gilbert Gabriel, in New York American.  “At last a play has come to town that can be heartily recommended.  Sturdy theater, compelling.  Once you are within the radius of Double Door you will remain transfixed until you know what’s behind it.”  Bernard Sobel, Daily Mirror. “Double Door is a thriller of a new kind, beautifully written, superbly played, clean as a whistle, and arousing in its spectators a tenseness of interest I have rarely seen equaled in a playhouse.”  E. Jordan, America.  Leading part acted by Mary Morris in America and by Sybil Thorndike in London.  A play that will challenge the best acting talent of Little Theatres and colleges.

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

THE DISTAFF SIDE

Play. 3 acts.  By John Van Druten. 5 males, 8 females. 2 interiors.  Modern costumes.

Produced with preeminent success in London and New York.  Mr. Van Druten’s new play deals with the women of one family, women so unlike that they set one another off startlingly.  There is the tart, querulous old Mrs. Venables, and there are her three daughters—­Nellie who is married and whose life has slipped away from her in the provinces; Liz who is divorced and whose life has been brilliant and unconventional on the Continent; and Evie who is a widow and whose life has been spent being happy through others—­her husband, her children, her friends.  Evie’s young daughter Alex is the fifth woman in the family, and the drama of The Distaff Side centers chiefly in her and her two suitors who represent such different things.  But if the plot belongs to Alex, the honors of the play go to her mother—­for seldom has a modern playwright drawn so warm and womanly and endearing a character as Evie.  The family life of these people is extraordinarily human, but it is Evie that it revolves around, Evie who lights it up.

(Royalty, $35.00.) Price, 75 cents.