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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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