THE CURTAIN FALLS

REPRESENTATIVE PLAYS BY WELL-KNOWN PLAYWRIGHTS

By MR. CLYDE FITCH

The Climbers A keen satire on contemporary New York society, which explains its t.i.tle thus:--

"There are social climbers, but wealth is as good a goal. I was a climber after wealth and everything it brings."

"And I after happiness and all it brings."--_Act II._

The Girl with the Green Eyes A study of the jealous temperament. The play is full of touches of a remarkable intuition, and the heroine's character is portrayed with rare delicacy.

The Toast of the Town A comedy dealing with the life of an actress in the period of George III., and with the tragedy of middle age.

Her Own Way and The Stubbornness of Geraldine are two original American plays, ingenious and novel in their employment of pictorial devices. These plays are funds of delightful sentiment, unhackneyed, piquant humor, and minute observation.

For the faithfulness of his chronicles of American life Mr. Fitch is to be ranked with Mr. Henry Arthur Jones in the English field, and with the best of the modern French dramatists on the Continent.

By HENRY ARTHUR JONES

The Manoeuvres of Jane An Original Comedy in Four Acts.

"The occasional publication of a play by Henry Arthur Jones is a matter for congratulation.... In 'The Manoeuvres of Jane' we see Mr. Jones in his most sprightly mood and at the height of his ingenuity; ... its plot is plausible and comic, and its dialogue is witty."

_The Transcript_ (Boston).

Mrs. Dane's Defence A Play in Four Acts.

First produced in London by Sir Charles Wyndham. Margaret Anglin and Charles Richman scored a success in it in New York and elsewhere.

The Whitewashing of Julia An Original Comedy in Three Acts and an Epilogue.

Saints and Sinners An Original Drama of Modern English Middle-Cla.s.s Life in Five Acts.

The Crusaders An Original Comedy of Modern London Life.

The Case of Rebellious Susan A Comedy in Three Acts.

Carnac Sahib An Original Play in Four Acts.

The Triumph of the Philistines

Michael and His Lost Angel

The Tempters

The Liars

The Masqueraders

By MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL

The t.i.tle-Mart A live comedy of American life, turning on schemes of ambitious elders, through which love and the young folks follow their own sweet ways.

By PAUL HEYSE FREELY TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM WINTER

Mary of Magdala The English version used by Mrs. Fiske in New York and elsewhere.

By MR. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (Plays for an Irish Theatre)

Where There is Nothing

The Hour Gla.s.s And Other Plays

In the Seven Woods

"Mr. Yeats' work is notable as supplying that rarest of all things--a distinctly new strain in English poetic and dramatic literature."--MISS KATHARINE LEE BATES in the _Transcript_ (Boston).

By MR. THOMAS HARDY

The Dynasts A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars. In three parts.

By MR. STEPHEN PHILLIPS

The Sin of David The theme is indicated by the t.i.tle, but the time of the play is that of Cromwell, and runs its course during the English civil war.

Ulysses A dramatic success in both London and New York, first presented in a marvellous stage-setting by Beerbohm Tree, and p.r.o.nounced "the most strikingly imaginative production the present generation has witnessed."