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that she may thank
him. She drives away a tramp from her kitchen, and then discovers
who he was.
_Ibid._
THE GOLDEN APPLE: Many scenes, some excellent fun; of a search
for miraculous fruit, of a giant who is high and bloodthirsty
only in carefully fostered reputation, and the like matters.
Putnam.
+St. John Hankin+
THE PERFECT LOVER: Delightful dramatic version of Suckling's
"Constant Lover."
In _Dramatic Works_, Seeker.
RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL: The same young man, or his close image,
having managed to be received by his family as a returned
prodigal, calmly puts upon them the question of his future.
_Ibid._
THE CASSILIS ENGAGEMENT
_Ibid._
+Gerhardt Hauptmann+
THE WEAVERS: Painful presentation of the suffering of the German
weavers in the first adjustments of the Industrial Revolution.
In Dickinson's _Chief Contemporary Dramatists_; also in
Lewisohn's translations, Huebsch.
+Winifred N. Hawkridge+
THE FLORIST SHOP: Rather sentimentalist play of good influences
wafted by a young woman as a florist's clerk; excellent business
combines with the influences.
In _Harvard Dramatic Club Plays, First Series_, Brentano's.
+Hazelton and Benrimo+
THE YELLOW JACKET: The conventions of the Chinese theatre, more
or less faithfully presented, make a quite comical presentment of
an ancient Chinese legend.
Bobbs, Merrill.
+Theresa Helburn+
ENTER THE HERO: A madly fanciful girl fabricates a romance out of
whole cloth, casts a friend as hero, and tells her small world
about it. Even the rough measures the hero has to use to escape
do not succeed in curing her of the habit.
In _Flying Stage Plays, No. 4_, Ahrens; _Fifty Contemporary
One-Act Plays_, Stewart and Kidd.
+Perez Hirschbein+
IN THE DARK: Grim and awful picture of the depths of misery and
starvation in a Ghetto basement. Translated by Goldberg.
In _Six Plays of the Yiddish Theatre, First Series_: Luce.
+Hugo von Hofmannsthal+
MADONNA DIANORA: Fearsome tragedy of the Ring-and-Book sort,
beautifully and poignantly presented.
Translated by Harriett Boas, Badger.
+Stanley Houghton+
THE DEAR DEPARTED: Somewhat precipitate haste for advantage in
dividing grandfather's effects is fittingly rebuked.
In _Dramatic Works_, vol. i. French, New York; Constable, London.
THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: A mother finds being an "imaginary
invalid" excellent for checkmating her daughter's plans, but
inconvenientl
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