Sidgwick and Jackson, London.

VOTE BY BALLOT:  A drama of English elections and the forces involved.

Sidgwick and Jackson.

THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE:  The inheritance is a dishonored name and a dishonest business.

In Three Plays, Sidgwick and Jackson.

+Granville Barker and Dion Calthorpe+

HARLEQUINADE:  Its development from the days of Persephone, Momus, and Charon is displayed and explained by Alice and her uncle.

Sidgwick and Jackson.

+James Barrie+

THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON:  In the struggle for existence on a desert island, the family butler provides the brains and safety for an English family; the party is then rescued, and returns to the impeccable conventions of London.

Scribner’s, New York; Hodder and Stoughton, London.

ALICE SIT-BY-THE FIRE:  A mother with keen insight and a delightful sense of humor has to deal with a serious attack of romantic imagination in her very young daughter, who feels responsible for the conduct of the family.

Scribner’s; Hodder and Stoughton.

THE OLD LADY SHOWS HER MEDALS:  Mrs. Dowie, a charwoman who has resorted to desperate remedies in order to have some part in the war, goes through an agonizing crisis of exposure, into real joy and sharp sorrow.  The rich humor of the characters makes this quite unique among plays of its type.

In Echoes of the War, Scribner’s.

THE WELL-REMEMBERED VOICE.

Ibid.

PETER PAN:  A charming fairy drama of the baby from the Never-Never Land and of his make-believe play with his friends in the nursery.

Scribner’s.

THE TWELVE-POUND LOOK:  On the eve of achieving knighthood the hero suffers a startling disclosure which leads him to look suspiciously for the “twelve-pound look” in his lady’s eyes.

In Half-Hours, Scribner’s.

WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS:  As we behold the creation of John Shand’s career by Maggie his wife, who lacks charm, and particularly as we observe her campaign against a woman fully possessed of charm, we want to learn “what every woman knows.”  The secret is enlightening.

Scribner’s.

+Lewis Beach+

BROTHERS, A SARDONIC COMEDY:  Two “poor whites” quarrel violently over a worthless inheritance, and then combine in arson to prevent their mother from getting it:  a disquieting and searching study of depths of shiftlessness and passionate meanness.

In Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays, edited by Frank Shay and
Pierre S. Loving.  Frank Shay.

THE CLOD:  A powerful drama of the flare-up of a stolid and apparently unfeeling nature in the flame of the pity and horror of war.

In Washington Square Plays, Doubleday.

+Jacinto Benavente+

HIS WIDOW’S HUSBAND:  An absurd comedy of the small gossip and rigid conventions in a Spanish provincial capital. (Translated by John Garrett Underhill.)