Part 2

Oh, I knew you’d discover it some day; and when you did discover it, you’d be such a _nice_ donkey. Pierrot, I’ve come to a conclusion myself!

PIERROT (_apprehensively_)

You, too, Pierrette? What is it?

PIERRETTE

That most wives, with clever husbands, are silly geese!

PIERROT (_heartily_)

Why, I’ve known that, Pierrette, ever since I married _you_. I didn’t think I ought to tell you, though.

PIERRETTE

And I don’t blame you, Pierrot--not for a minute--for wanting me to go away.

PIERROT (_fervently_)

I want you back, now!

PIERRETTE

But I _am_ going away, Pierrot!

PIERROT

Pierrette!

PIERRETTE

Not now, Pierrot--but some time!

(_As the curtain falls, they bend quickly toward each other, their hands stretched out behind, and kiss._)

Four Plays of the Free Theater:

“The Fossils,” “The Serenade,” “Francoise’ Luck,” “The Dupe.”

Authorized Translation with Introduction by BARRETT H. CLARK

_The Contents of this Volume are_:

Preface by----Brieux Antoine and the Free Theater, by Barrett H. Clark.

_The Fossils_, by Francois de Curel. Rather short three-act play, first produced in 1892. Time, the present. A problem play of family pride and desire to perpetuate itself. Characters: The Duke de Chartmelle, Robert de Chartmelle, Nicolas, a Farmer, a Country Neighbor, a Servant, Claire de Chartmelle, Helen Vatrin, a Nun.

_The Serenade_, by Jean Jullien, a Bourgeois Study in three rather short acts; first produced in 1887. Characters: Theodore Cottin, Calixte Poujade, Maxine Champanet, Prosper Poujade, Dumoulin, Fournier, Nathelie Cottin, Genevieve Cottin, Celina Roulard, Leocadie, Dumoulin, Clemma, Dodo.

_Francoise’ Luck_, by Georges de Porto-Riche. Medium length, one-act comedy; first produced in 1888. Characters: Marcel Desroches, Guerin, Jean, Francois, Maseleine.

_The Dupe_, by Georges Ancey, a comedy in five short acts; first produced in 1891. Characters: Albert, Madame Viot, Adele, Marie.

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SHORT PLAYS

BY MARY MACMILLAN

To fill a long-felt want. All have been successfully presented. Suitable for Women’s Clubs, Girls’ Schools, etc. While elaborate enough for big presentation, they may be given very simply.

This volume contains ten Plays:

_The Shadowed Star_ has six women, one boy; may all be taken by women. Time, present. Scene, in a tenement Christmas Eve. One act, 45 minutes.

_The Ring._ Costume play. Time, days of Shakespeare. Three women, seven men. Scene, interior. One act, 45 minutes.

_The Rose._ One woman, two men. Time, Elizabethan. Scene, castle interior. One act, 30 minutes. Song introduced.

_Luck._ Four short acts. Time, present. Interior scene. Seven women, six men. Comedy.

_Entre’ Acte._ Costume play. Time, present. Scene, interior. Two women, one man. Contains a song. One act.

_A Woman’s a Woman for A’ That._ Time, present. Interior scene. One act, 45 minutes. Three women, two men. Comedy.

_A Fan and Two Candlesticks._ Costume play, Colonial times. Scene, interior. Two men, one woman. One act, 20 to 30 minutes. Written in rhymed couplets.

_A Modern Masque._ Time, present. Scene, outdoors. Fantastic, written in prose and verse. Costume play in one act, 30 minutes or more. Four women, three men.

_The Futurists._ One-act farce, of the first woman’s club of the early eighties. Interior. Forty-five minutes. Eight women.

_The Gate of Wishes._ One-act fantasy. Outdoors. Half hour. One girl, one man. Singing voices of fairies.

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MORE SHORT PLAYS

BY MARY MACMILLAN

Plays that act well may read well. Miss MacMillan’s Plays are good reading. Nor is literary excellence a detriment to dramatic performance.

This volume contains eight Plays:

_His Second Girl_. One-act comedy, just before the Civil War. Interior, 45 minutes. Three women, three men.

_At the Church Door_. Fantastic farce, one act, 20 to 30 minutes. Interior. Present. Two women, two men.

_Honey_. Four short acts. Present, in the southern mountains. Same interior cabin scene throughout. Three women, one man, two girls.

_The Dress Rehearsal of Hamlet_. One-act costume farce. Present. Interior. Forty-five minutes. Ten women taking men’s parts.

_The Pioneers_. Five very short acts. 1791 in Middle-West. Interior. Four men, five women, five children, five Indians.

_In Mendelesia, Part I_. Costume play, Middle Ages. Interior. Thirty minutes or more. Four women, one man-servant.

_In Mendelesia, Part II_. Modern realism of same plot. One act. Present. Interior. Thirty minutes. Four women, one maid-servant.

_The Dryad_. Fantasy in free verse, one act. Thirty minutes. Outdoors. Two women, one man. Present.

These plays, as well as SHORT PLAYS, have been presented by clubs and schools in Boston, New York, Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, New Orleans, San Francisco, etc., and by the Portmanteau Theatre, the Chicago Art Institute Theatre, the Denver Little Art Theatre, at Carmel-by-the-Sea in California, etc.

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_A Notable Achievement_

European Theories of the Drama

AN ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMATIC THEORY AND CRITICISM FROM ARISTOTLE TO THE PRESENT DAY, IN A SERIES OF SELECTED TEXTS, WITH COMMENTARIES, BIOGRAPHIES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES

BY BARRETT H. CLARK

AUTHOR OF

“CONTEMPORARY FRENCH DRAMATISTS,” “THE CONTINENTAL DRAMA OF TODAY,” “BRITISH AND AMERICAN DRAMA OF TODAY,” ETC., ETC.

A book of paramount importance. This monumental anthology brings together for the first time the epoch-making theories and criticisms of the drama which have affected our civilization from the beginnings in Greece down to the present day. Beginning with Aristotle, each utterance on the subject has been chosen with reference to its importance, and its effect on subsequent dramatic writing. The texts alone would be of great interest and value, but the author, Barrett H. Clark, has so connected each period by means of inter-chapters that his comments taken as a whole constitute a veritable history of dramatic criticism, in which each text bears out his statements.

Nowhere else is so important a body of doctrine on the subject of the drama to be obtained. It cannot fail to appeal to anyone who is interested in the theater, and will be indispensable to students.

The introduction to each section of the book is followed by an exhaustive bibliography; each writer whose work is represented is made the subject of a brief biography, and the entire volume is rendered doubly valuable by the index, which is worked out in great detail.

_Prof. Brander Matthews_, of Columbia University, says: “Mr. Clark deserves high praise for the careful thoroughness with which he has performed the task he set for himself. He has done well what was well worth doing. In these five hundred pages he has extracted the essence of several five-foot shelves. His anthology will be invaluable to all students of the principles of playmaking; and it ought to be welcomed by all those whose curiosity has been aroused by the frequent references of our latter-day theorists of the theater to their predecessors Aristotle and Horace, Castelvetro and Scaliger, Sidney and Jonson, d’Aubignac and Boileau, Lessing and Schlegel, Goethe and Coleridge.”

_Wm. Lyon Phelps_, of Yale University, writes: “Mr. Clark’s book, ‘European Theories of the Drama,’ is an exceedingly valuable work and ought to be widely useful.”

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The Portmanteau Plays

BY STUART WALKER

Edited and with an introduction by Edward Hale Bierstadt

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Vol. 1--Portmanteau Plays Introduction The Trimplet Nevertheless Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil Medicine Show

Vol. 2--More Portmanteau Plays Introduction The Lady of the Weeping Willow Tree The Very Naked Boy Jonathan Makes a Wish

To be issued shortly

Vol. 3--Portmanteau Adaptations Introduction Gammer Gurton’s Needle The Birthday of the Infanta “Seventeen”

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:

Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_.

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.