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...University Dramatic Club in connection with the Union of East and West, an organization of international importance, will present three one-act Hindu plays at Huntington Chambers Hall in Boston tomorrow afternoon and evening at 3 and 8.30 o'clock respectively. These three plays have been produced but once in this country, and but twice in the English language, having won unique successes in London and New York City...
...Come, Within Four Walls is an attempt to commercialize the dramatic residue of previous successes. It is a fourth carbon copy of Little Old New York and Not So Long Ago, with overtones of Plots and Playwrights and Zoe Akins' The Varying Shore. A series of totally unrelated one-act plays involving incredible incidents in the life of the Minuit family are patched together and stretched across a framework of the Mendelian Law of inheritance, in order to demonstrate that blood will tell and that children are liable to take after their ancestors. The dodge by which historical flavor...
TWENTY CONTEMPORARY ONE-ACT PLAYS, AMERICAN, Edited by Frank Shay: Kidd Company, Cincinnati...
...great success produced by the Theatre Guild of New York; a Czecho-Slovakian play of quite some merit will bear reading. SET THE STAGE FOR EIGHT, by Doris F. Halman, a collection of unusual one-act plays, excellent alike for reading and acting, will prove a mine of entertainment and no little instruction...
...Rosalis in "Pastora", Pierrot's mother in "The Mourner", plays of last year, and the mother in "Slug", the first production of this year. She was one of the authors of "The 47 Varieties", a musical parody on the Workshop's productions given last year. Miss Halman wrote three plays produced by the Workshop: "Will o' the Wisp", "Rusted Stock", and "The Play Room". She will publish shortly a book of one-act plays called "Set the Stage for Eight...