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...anthologist is not a happy one", as Mr. Frank Shay assures us that it is not in his "Foreword" to the "Twenty Contemporary One Act Plays--American" he has recently edited, the lot of the reviewer of such a work is not the least bit happier. Not only does he strike the difficulty that persons seem to disagree more over the merits of a play than over those of any other from the writing, but also that of writing an adequate criticism of twenty one-act plays in less time and space than the reviewer can allow or be allowed...
Aside from the actually collected material in an anthology, however, especi ally in an anthology of one-act plays, there are certain things one looks for, from both the aesthetic and the practical points of view, to really complete the volume. From the practical viewpoint, Mr. Shay's anthology is adequately handled. There are the expected notices of addresses for applications for permission to produce, and the bibliographies of books about, and plays of the "Little Theatre". For the reader, on the other hand, who would take up the book as a matter of enjoyable reading only, there...
...master in technique. It illustrates once again the writer's extraordinary power of creating an atmosphere that transcends the actual lines and action of the play. With these two plays as leaders, and with a number of others that may be said to be truly good, Mr. Shay has made a creditable selection from the enormous field of the American one-act play
TWENTY CONTEMPORARY ONE-ACT PLAYS, AMERICAN, Edited by Frank Shay: Kidd Company, Cincinnati...
Tumbling. Won by McCoy (M); second, Cresson (P); third, Shay (M); fourth, Dole...