One-Act Plays By Modern Authors (Classic Reprint)

Had not both authors and publishers acted with the greatest generosity, this collection could not have been made. Though the editor cannot adequately express her sense of obligation, she wishes at least to record explicitly her indebtedness toM r. Harold Brig house, Lord Dunsany, Mr. John Galsworthy, Lad Gregory, Mr. Percy MacK aye, Miss Jeannette Marks, Miss Josephine Preston Peabody, Professor Robert Emmons Rogers, Mr. Booth Tarkington, and Professor Stark Young. The editor also desires to thank Chatto Windus, Duffield Company, Gowans Gray, Ltd., Harper Brothers, Little, Brown kC ompany, John W. Luce Company, G. P. Putnam sS ons, Charles Scribner sS ons, and The Sunwise Turn, for permissions granted ungrudgingly. Through the courtesy of Mr. T. M. Cleland, director of theB eechwood Players, the pictures of theB eech wood Theatre appear. Miss Mary W. Carter, chairman of theD epartment of English in the High School in Montclair, New Jersey, contributed the photographs of the Garden Theatre. Other illustrations appear through the kindness ofT heatre Arts Magazine, and ofT heN eighborhood Playhouse. The editor is grateful toM rs. John W. A lexander, Mr. B. I den Payne, and Mrs. T. Bernstein for the privilege of personal conferences on the subject of the book. To Mr. Robert Edmond Jones, who has allowed three of his designs to be reproduced and who has read and corrected that part of the Introduction that deals with The New Art of the Theatre, the editor takes this opportunity of expressing her warm appreciation. Finally, the editor wishes to thank her friend, Helen Hopkins Crandell for her indefatigable work on the proofs of this book.
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