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DRAMATIS PERSONAE-W. B. Yeats-Macmillan ($2.50).
For without a shadow of doubt there is at the moment in Europe a huge and subversive force that Mes behind the arming and counter-arming of nations; there are mines, smelters, armament works, holding companies, and banks, entangled in an international embrace, yet working inevitably for the destruction of...
But how about the rest of our dramatis personae? Hurley has left for parts hence, a discredited politician, doomed by the phrase "hit and run." Ely, whichever way he jumps, has lost the support of literates who once believed him above such stuff, Dillon has played a very small part...
Alexander Hamilton (Warner) is an historical play in the grand manner. Its dramatis personae includes George & Martha Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Senator Roberts, Count Talleyrand, Philip Schuyler, John Jay and Betsy Hamilton, in addition to the first Secretary of the Treasury who is impersonated by no less a personage...
Dramatis Personae: Viscount Brentford (carrying a cake of soap), the Bishop of Durham, Lords Ponsonby, Hailsham, Newton, etc., etc.