Sweet and Twenty

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Illustration from Sweet and Twenty: A Comedy in One Act

Stewart Kidd Dramatic Anthologies

Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays

Edited by

FRANK SHAY and PIERRE LOVING

This volume contains FIFTY REPRESENTATIVE ONE-ACT PLAYS of the MODERN THEATER, chosen from the dramatic works of contemporary writers all over the world and is the second volume in the Stewart Kidd Dramatic Anthologies, the first being European Theories of the Drama, by Barrett H. Clark, which has been so enthusiastically received.

The editors have scrupulously sifted countless plays and have selected the best available in English. One-half the plays have never before been published in book form; thirty-one are no longer available in any other edition.

The work satisfies a long-felt want for a handy collection of the choicest plays produced by the art theaters all over the world. It is a complete repertory for a little theater, a volume for the study of the modern drama, a representative collection of the world's best short plays.

CONTENTS

AUSTRIA

Schnitzler (Arthur)—Literature

BELGIUM

Maeterlinck (Maurice)—The Intruder

BOLIVIA

More (Federico)—Interlude

FRANCE

Ancey (George)—M. Lamblin

Porto-Riche (Georges)—Francoise's Luck

GERMANY

Ettinger (Karl)—Altruism

von Hofmannsthal (Hugo)—Madonna Dianora

Wedekind (Frank)—The Tenor

GREAT BRITAIN

Bennett (Arnold)—A Good Woman

Calderon (George)—The Little Stone House.

Cannan (Gilbert)—Mary's Wedding

Dowson (Ernest)—The Pierrot of the Minute.

Ellis (Mrs. Havelock)—The Subjection of Kezia

Hankin (St. John)—The Constant Lover

INDIA

Mukerji (Dhan Gopal)—The Judgment of Indra

IRELAND

Gregory (Lady)—The Workhouse Ward

HOLLAND

Speenhoff (J. H.)—Louise

HUNGARY

Biro (Lajos)—The Grandmother

ITALY

Giocosa (Giuseppe)—The Rights of the Soul

RUSSIA

Andreyev (Leonid)—Love of One's Neighbor

Tchekoff (Anton)—The Boor

SPAIN

Benevente (Jacinto)—His Widow's Husband

Quinteros (Serafina and Joaquin Alverez)—A Sunny Morning

SWEDEN

Strindberg (August)—The Creditor

Wied (Gustave)—Autumn Fires

UNITED STATES

Beach (Lewis)—Brothers

Cowan (Sada)—In the Morgue

Crocker (Bosworth)—The Baby Carriage

Cronyn (George W.)—A Death in Fever Flat

Davies (Mary Carolyn)—The Slave with Two Faces

Day (Frederick L.)—The Slump

Flanner (Hildegard)—Mansions

Glaspell (Susan)—Trifles

Gerstenberg (Alice)—The Pot Boiler

Helburn (Theresa)—Enter the Hero

Hudson (Holland)—The Shepherd in the Distance

Kemp (Harry)—Boccaccio's Untold Tale

Langner (Lawrence)—Another Way Out

MacMillan (Mary)—The Shadowed Star

Millay (Edna St. Vincent)—Aro da Capo

Moeller (Philip)—Helena's Husband

O'Neill (Eugene)—Ile

Stevens (Thomas Wood)—The Nursery Maid of Heaven

Stevens (Wallace)—Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise

Tompkins (Frank G.)—Sham

Walker (Stuart)—The Medicine Show

Wellman (Rita)—For All Time

Wilde (Percival)—The Finger of God

YIDDISH

Ash (Sholom)—Night

Pinski (David)—Forgotten Souls

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STEWART KIDD MODERN PLAYS Edited by Frank Shay

SWEET AND TWENTY

Stewart Kidd Modern Plays

Edited by FRANK SHAY

To meet the immensely increased demands of the play-reading public and those interested in the modern drama, Stewart Kidd are issuing under the general editorship of Frank Shay a series of plays from the pens of the world's best contemporary writers. No effort is being spared to secure the best work available, and the plays are issued in a form that is at once attractive to readers and suited to the needs of the performer and producer. Buffalo Express: "Each play is of merit. Each is unlike the other. The group furnishes a striking example of the realistic trend of the modern drama."

From time to time special announcements will be printed giving complete lists of the plays.

SHAM, a Social Satire in One Act. By Frank G. Tompkins. Originally produced by Sam Hume, at the Arts and Crafts Theatre, Detroit. San Francisco Bulletin: "The lines are new and many of them are decidedly clever." Providence Journal: "An ingenious and merry little one-act play."

THE SHEPHERD IN THE DISTANCE, a Pantomime in One Act. By Holland Hudson. Originally produced by the Washington Square Players. Oakland Tribune: "A pleasing pantomime of the Ancient East."

MANSIONS, a Play in One Act. By Hildegarde Flanner. Originally produced by the Indiana Little Theatre Society. Three Arts Magazine: "This thoughtful and well-written play of Characters and Ideals has become a favorite with Little Theatres and is now available in print."

HEARTS TO MEND, a Fantasy in One Act. By H. A. Overstreet. Originally produced by the Fireside Players, White Plains, N. Y. St. Louis Star: "It is a light whimsy and well carried out." San Francisco Chronicle: "No one is likely to hear or read it without real and legitimate pleasure."

SIX WHO PASS WHILE THE LENTILS BOIL. By Stuart Walker. Originally produced by the Portmanteau Players at Christodora House, New York City. Brooklyn Eagle: "Literary without being pedantic, and dramatic without being noisy."

OTHERS TO FOLLOW. Bound in Art Paper. Each, net, .50

Sweet and Twenty A COMEDY IN ONE ACT

FLOYD DELL

Author of MOON CALF

First produced by the Provincetown Players, New York City January 25, 1918, with the following cast:

THE YOUNG WOMAN Edna St. Vincent Millay

THE YOUNG MAN Ordway Tead

THE AGENT Otto Liveright

THE GUARD Louis Ell

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