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IT'S THE POOR THAT 'ELPS THE POOR: Of the simple kindliness of London costermongers and their neighborly help and sympathy.
French.
MUDDLE ANNIE: Of course, it is "Muddle Annie" who helps their friend the policeman save the more suave and self-satisfied members of her family from a precious rogue.
Gowans and Gray.
THE THRESHOLD: Tells of a Welsh girl about to elope with a specious rascal, and of the intervention of her old father, who is killed in a mine accident.
Gowans and Gray; forthcoming, French.
COMEDIES.
Chatto and Windus, London.
+Colin Clements and John M. Saunders, translators+
LOVE IN A FRENCH KITCHEN: A comical medieaval French farce.
Jacquinot endures a miserable compound tyranny of petticoats until matters are brought to a head by c.u.mulative injustice and the intervention of accident.
In _Poet Lore_ (1917), 28:722.
+Padraic Colum+
MOGU THE WANDERER: Pageantesque and dramatic story of the rise of a beggar to be the king's vizier, and of as sudden and entire reversal of fortunes.
Little, Brown.
THOMAS MUSKERRY: The tragic story of a poorhouse-keeper who repeats Lear's error of letting go his cherished power, and who suffers as keenly a more humble tragedy.
Maunsell, Dublin.
+Rachel Crothers+
HE AND SHE: A woman's designs win over those of her husband, who has the greater reputation, a large compet.i.tive award for a piece of sculpture; but she declines the commission in face of nearer and higher responsibilities.
In Quinn's _Representative American Plays_, Century.
+Windsor P. Daggett and Winifred Smith+
LELIO AND ISABELLA: A COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE: The story of Romeo and Juliet, as the foremost players of the Italian Comedy of Masks may have given it in seventeenth-century Paris--with an ending of their choice. An interesting study in the type.
In ma.n.u.script: N.L. Swartout, Summit, N.J.
+H.H. Davies+
THE MOLLUSC: Clever study of a woman who is a mollusc--not merely lazy, since she is capable of huge exertions to avoid being disturbed; she finds plenty of opposition to show forth her powers upon.
Baker.
+Thomas H. d.i.c.kinson+
IN HOSPITAL: A poignant small dialogue of a husband and wife who meet courageously the threatened s.h.i.+pwreck of their happiness.
In _Wisconsin Plays, First Series_, B.W. Huebsch.
+Beulah M. Dix+
ALLISON'S LAD: A Cavalier lad, about to be shot as a spy, is seized by terror, but dies bravely, "as if strong arms were around him."
In _Allison's Lad and Other Martial Interludes_, Holt.
THE DARK OF THE DAWN: Colonel Basil Tollocho spares a boy he has sworn to destroy in revenge of a great wrong, and is made glad of his clemency.
_Ibid._
THE HUNDREDTH TRICK: Con of the Hundred Tricks takes fearfully stern measures against possible betrayal of his cause.
_Ibid._
+Beulah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland+
ROSE O'PLYMOUTH TOWN: A pleasant play of Puritans and their neighbors.
Dramatic Publis.h.i.+ng Company.
+Oliphant Down+
THE MAKER OF DREAMS: Poetical small play in which love appears with a new make-up but in the old role.
Gowans and Gray.
+Ernest Dowson+
THE PIERROT OF THE MINUTE: A quite charming tale of Pierrot and the Moon-Maiden.
In his _Collected Poems_, Lane.
