Act 3 — CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN DRAMATISTS

THE VERGE. By Susan Glaspell. (2nd Impression.)

“Extraordinarily interesting, besides being very unusual. Fresh, curious, and dramatically alive.... Here there is revolt against the platitude, the convention, but the repudiation of life as it is goes far beyond the social rebellion ... it is an attempt to capture something beyond the reaches of our souls.”—“Manchester Guardian.”

“Few living dramatists have succeeded so well in amalgamating psychology with perfect stagecraft.”—“Westminster Gazette.”

INHERITORS. By Susan Glaspell

“This is a fine play ... one would not rank it below ‘An Enemy of the People,’ and for my own part I am inclined to think it ranks with ‘The Master Builder.’”—James Agate in the “Sunday Times.”

“There is no mistaking the power and insight of her characterisation ... the first act is a little epic of the pioneer days of America, beautifully written and deeply felt.”—“Daily Telegraph.”

BERNICE. By Susan Glaspell

“Remorselessly, every word striking home, this quiet tragedy works to an end.”—“The Weekly Westminster.”

“By very subtle touches Susan Glaspell builds up the character of Bernice, a woman who died before the play opens.”—E. A. Baughan in the “Daily News.”

MOSES. A Play, a Protest, and a Proposal. By Lawrence Langner

“Entertaining and effective ... always incisive and usually profound.”—“Manchester Guardian.”

THE SPRING. By George Cram Cook

“Is a work of arresting theme and highly imaginative workmanship.”—The late William Archer.

“A strange and arresting play on the psychic, mixing argument with emotion in an extraordinary manner.”—Kenneth MacGowan.

NEW PLAYS IN PREPARATION

THE FIREBRAND. By Edwin Justus Mayer

THE SPORT OF GODS. By John Cournos

FOUR ONE ACT PLAYS. Gwen John

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BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. By George S. Kaufman & Marc Connelly

“A quaint and rollicking ‘nightmare play.’”—“Referee.”

“This amusing satire ... is the fiercest satire on materialism we have ever read.”—“Daily Graphic.”

THE COLONNADE. By Stark Young

“Mr. Stark Young makes his effects with a beautiful simplicity and you have not to read far to perceive that ‘The Colonnade’ is a remarkable play. It comes to significant life in a scene, full of emotion, between father and son. There is a strong opposition of wills, and the difference between them repeats the difference that had separated the father from his wife.”—Allan Monkhouse in the “Manchester Guardian.”

THE MACHINE WRECKERS. By Ernst Toller. Translated by Ashley Dukes

“It has power and passion and judgment and pity.”—St. John Ervine in the “Observer.”

SHAKESPEARE. By H. F. Rubinstein & Clifford Bax

“Their Shakespeare is by far the most life-like, the most plausible, yet presented in drama—far excelling either Mr. Shaw’s or Mr. Frank Harris’s.”—“Weekly Westminster.”

DOCTOR KNOCK. By Jules Romains. Translated by Harley Granville-Barker

“Monsieur Romains has caught at the crest the modern tyranny of medicine ... it is a shrewd joke, a timely joke, and well told.”—“Times.”

“Mr. Granville Barker’s latest gift to the English theatre is an amazingly perfect version of Jules Romains’ clever satire: Dr. Knock.”—“Daily Telegraph.”