Curtain Raisers, Duckworth, London.

+Arthur Wing Pinero+

THE PLAYGOERS:  A farce in which a lady attempts to provide cultural amusement for her servants, and succeeds in breaking up the smooth-running establishment.

London.

+David Pinski+

ABIGAIL:  A dramatization of a Biblical story from the wars of
David.  Translated from the Yiddish by Dr. Goldberg.

In Six Plays of the Yiddish Theatre, Luce.

FORGOTTEN SOULS:  Fanny Segal’s self-sacrifice for her sister and lover is carried to a strange and morbid extreme.

In Six Plays of the Yiddish Theatre, Luce.

+Graham Pryce+

THE COMING OF FAIR ANNIE:  A simple but effective dramatization of the old ballad.

Gowans and Gray.

+Richard Pryce and Arthur Morrison+

THE DUMB CAKE:  A St. Agnes’ Eve story in a London slum.

French.

+Serafin and Joaquim Quintero+

A SUNNY MOHNING:  Two very old people recall the tremendously romantic happenings of their early youth.

In Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays, Stewart and Kidd.

+Edwin Arlington Robinson+

VAN ZORN:  A play of New York studio life in which Van Zorn puts his own desires out of court and plays providence in the lives of his friends.

Macmillan.

+Santiago Rosinol+

THE PRODIGAL DOLL:  A comical marionette sows his wild oats most violently and repents in deep sorrow.

In Drama, February, 1917, 5:15.

+Edmond Rostand+

CYRANO DE BERGERAC:  A great play of a swashbuckling hero of the
Paris of Moliere’s time.

Doubleday; also in Dickinson’s Contemporary Dramatists, I,
Houghton Mifflin.

L’AIGLON:  The tragic story of Napoleon’s son, the little King of
Rome, captive among enemies determined to tame his spirit.

Harper.

THE PRINCESS FAR-AWAY:  The story of the Troubadour Rudel and the Princess of Tripoli, celebrated in one of Browning’s poems, represents all worship of what is beyond attainment.

Stokes.

THE ROMANCERS:  The foolish and romantic notions of two lovers are ably caricatured by their fathers’ plots and stratagems.

Baker, 1906.

+Arthur Schnitzler+

LAST MASKS:  A dying man in the Vienna Hospital contrives an opportunity for the cruel stroke he has intended at a man who has succeeded where he himself has failed; at the moment of possible triumph a different mood controls him.  There are three excellent studies of character in the play.

In Anatol and Other Plays, Boni and Liveright.

+George Bernard Shaw+

ANDROCLES AND THE LION:  The old story of a saint whom the lion remembered as his friend—­with much shrewd light upon certain types of early Christians.

Constable.