In Masks and other One-Act Plays, Holt.
MOTHERS: A mother tries in vain to prevent a young woman whom she loves from marrying her son and repeating the misery of her own marriage with a weakling.
In Tradition and other One-Act Plays, Holt.
ON BAIL: A gambler’s wife who has shared his illegal gains must help him pay his debt to the law; their son, too, is involved.
Ibid.
THE TWO HOUSES: An old professor and his wife talk quietly together of the plans and the realities they have lived among.
In Masks, etc.
WAITING: False conventional ideas have long thwarted, and now threaten to wreck, the happiness of people who care greatly for each other.
In Tradition, etc.
+Edna St. Vincent Millay+
ABIA DA CAPO: A fantasy in which Pierrot, Columbine, and the Grecian shepherds of Theocritus display their varied views of life.
In Reedy’s Mirror: reprinted in Fifty Contemporary
One-Act Plays,
Stewart and Kidd, Cincinnati.
+Allan Milne+
THE BOY COMES HOME: A war profiteer has a bad half-hour of difficulties in getting his soldier nephew to work and live according to his views; he then faces the problem in reality.
In First Plays, Knopf.
THE LUCKY ONE: The Lucky One fails to win a trick he had counted on, but his chorus of relatives—surely related to Sir Willoughby Patterne’s—do not even notice the misfortune.
Ibid.
WURZEL-FLUMMERY: Of two men offered a good-sized fortune by a will provided they will adopt Wurzel-Flummery in place of their own more satisfactory surnames, and of their decision.
Ibid.
+Allan Monkhouse+
NIGHT WATCHES: A quiet and vivid picturing of the potential cruelty and frightfulness of ordinary well-meaning ignorance and terror; the fable reminds one of Galsworthy’s “The Black Godmother,” in The Inn of Tranquillity.
In War Plays, Constable, London.
+William Vaughn Moody+
THE FAITH HEALER: A serious drama presenting in moving and human fashion the effects of faith and disillusion.
Macmillan.
+Dhan Gopal Mukerji+
THE JUDGMENT or INDRA: A Hindu play, in which a priest of Indra, after making a supreme sacrifice of himself and others in order to root out human affection from his heart, thinks that his god speaks in the lightning of the storm that ensues.
In Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays, edited by Shay
and Loving.
Stewart and Kidd.
+Tracy Mygatt+
GOOD FRIDAY: A Passion Play. A powerful tragedy of the conscientious objector.
Published by the author, 23 Bank Street, New York, N.Y.
+Alfred Noyes+
SHERWOOD: A poetical play of Robin Hood and his band.
Stokes.
+Eugene O’Neill+
BEYOND THE HORIZON: The Pulitzer Prize Play, 1920. A tragic story of a young man who longed to seek romance “beyond the horizon,” and could find neither that nor any happiness, but only defeat and misery, in his everyday surroundings.