Longer Dramas from Appleton’s List
THE SEA WOMAN’S CLOAK and NOVEMBER EVE
By Amélie Rives (Princess Troubetzkoy)
Out of the legends and folklore of Ireland and her own particular fantasy she has made two plays as Irish as anything of Yeats’s, Synge’s, Lady Gregory’s. As individual. As enchanting.
The Sea Woman’s Cloak (3 m. 3 w. and others.). November Eve (8 m. 8 w. and others.). $2.00.
MARCH HARES
By Harry Wagstaff Gribble
A satire in three acts. First presented in New York at the Bijou Theatre, later at the Punch and Judy in the summer of 1921, later revived at the Little Theatre. “It offers,” says Heywood Broun, “some of the most agile dialogue that our theatre has known and reveals its author as the possessor of a rare gift for nonsense. And his nonsense is not just for the sheer trick of the thing, but molded with satirical intent.” New York Evening Telegram: “A delightful work, as good as Oscar Wilde at his best, sharply defined, brilliant, and deliciously amusing.” $2.00.
GOAT ALLEY
By Ernest Howard Culbertson
Introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn
A drama of Negro life in three acts. First presented at the Bijou Theatre, New York City, in June, 1921. (7 m. 4 w.). New York Tribune: “A stunning tragedy. In the characterization there are fine perception and vivid writing. There is heartbreak in this play.” Oakland Tribune: “Splendidly and heroically written. A play to meditate over.” $1.75.
THE SUN CHASER
By Jeannette Marks
Author of “Three Welsh Plays”
The search for happiness is the theme of this play, which is both realistic and—in the poignant figure of Ambrose Clark, who drunkenly, lamely chases the sun—subtly symbolic (11 m. 3 w. 4 g. 1 b.). John Barrymore: “I have read ‘The Sun Chaser.’ I think it has great beauty and a curious sense of mood and imminent vague things. I also think it brilliantly characterized.” $1.75.