Floyd Dell

Sweet and Twenty

Title: Sweet and Twenty

A Comedy in One Act

Author: Floyd Dell

Language: English

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Stewart Kidd Dramatic Anthologies

Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays

Edited by

FRANK SHAY and PIERRE LOVING

This volume contains FIFTY REPRESENTATIVE ONE-ACT PLAYS of the MODERN THEATER, chosen from the dramatic works of contemporary writers all over the world and is the second volume in the Stewart Kidd Dramatic Anthologies, the first being European Theories of the Drama, by Barrett H. Clark, which has been so enthusiastically received.

The editors have scrupulously sifted countless plays and have selected the best available in English. One-half the plays have never before been published in book form; thirty-one are no longer available in any other edition.

The work satisfies a long-felt want for a handy collection of the choicest plays produced by the art theaters all over the world. It is a complete repertory for a little theater, a volume for the study of the modern drama, a representative collection of the world's best short plays.

CONTENTS

• AUSTRIA
• Schnitzler (Arthur)—Literature
• BELGIUM
• Maeterlinck (Maurice)—The Intruder
• BOLIVIA
• More (Federico)—Interlude
• FRANCE
• Ancey (George)—M. Lamblin
• Porto-Riche (Georges)—Francoise's Luck
• GERMANY
• Ettinger (Karl)—Altruism
• von Hofmannsthal (Hugo)—Madonna Dianora
• Wedekind (Frank)—The Tenor
• GREAT BRITAIN
• Bennett (Arnold)—A Good Woman
• Calderon (George)—The Little Stone House.
• Cannan (Gilbert)—Mary's Wedding
• Dowson (Ernest)—The Pierrot of the Minute.
• Ellis (Mrs. Havelock)—The Subjection of Kezia
• Hankin (St. John)—The Constant Lover
• INDIA
• Mukerji (Dhan Gopal)—The Judgment of Indra
• IRELAND
• Gregory (Lady)—The Workhouse Ward
• HOLLAND
• Speenhoff (J. H.)—Louise
• HUNGARY
• Biro (Lajos)—The Grandmother
• ITALY
• Giocosa (Giuseppe)—The Rights of the Soul
• RUSSIA
• Andreyev (Leonid)—Love of One's Neighbor
• Tchekoff (Anton)—The Boor
• SPAIN
• Benevente (Jacinto)—His Widow's Husband
• Quinteros (Serafina and Joaquin Alverez)—A Sunny Morning
• SWEDEN
• Strindberg (August)—The Creditor
• Wied (Gustave)—Autumn Fires
• UNITED STATES
• Beach (Lewis)—Brothers
• Cowan (Sada)—In the Morgue
• Crocker (Bosworth)—The Baby Carriage
• Cronyn (George W.)—A Death in Fever Flat
• Davies (Mary Carolyn)—The Slave with Two Faces
• Day (Frederick L.)—The Slump
• Flanner (Hildegard)—Mansions
• Glaspell (Susan)—Trifles
• Gerstenberg (Alice)—The Pot Boiler
• Helburn (Theresa)—Enter the Hero
• Hudson (Holland)—The Shepherd in the Distance
• Kemp (Harry)—Boccaccio's Untold Tale
• Langner (Lawrence)—Another Way Out
• MacMillan (Mary)—The Shadowed Star
• Millay (Edna St. Vincent)—Aro da Capo
• Moeller (Philip)—Helena's Husband
• O'Neill (Eugene)—Ile
• Stevens (Thomas Wood)—The Nursery Maid of Heaven
• Stevens (Wallace)—Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise
• Tompkins (Frank G.)—Sham
• Walker (Stuart)—The Medicine Show
• Wellman (Rita)—For All Time
• Wilde (Percival)—The Finger of God
• YIDDISH
• Ash (Sholom)—Night
• Pinski (David)—Forgotten Souls

Large 8vo, 585 pages. Net, $5.00

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STEWART KIDD COMPANY
PUBLISHERS, CINCINNATI, U. S. A.

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STEWART KIDD MODERN PLAYS
Edited by Frank Shay

SWEET AND TWENTY

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Stewart Kidd Modern Plays

Edited by FRANK SHAY

To meet the immensely increased demands of the play-reading public and those interested in the modern drama, Stewart Kidd are issuing under the general editorship of Frank Shay a series of plays from the pens of the world's best contemporary writers. No effort is being spared to secure the best work available, and the plays are issued in a form that is at once attractive to readers and suited to the needs of the performer and producer. Buffalo Express: "Each play is of merit. Each is unlike the other. The group furnishes a striking example of the realistic trend of the modern drama."

From time to time special announcements will be printed giving complete lists of the plays.

SHAM, a Social Satire in One Act. By Frank G. Tompkins.
Originally produced by Sam Hume, at the Arts and Crafts Theatre, Detroit.
San Francisco Bulletin: "The lines are new and many of them are decidedly clever."
Providence Journal: "An ingenious and merry little one-act play."

THE SHEPHERD IN THE DISTANCE, a Pantomime in One Act. By Holland Hudson. Originally produced by the Washington Square Players.
Oakland Tribune: "A pleasing pantomime of the Ancient East."

MANSIONS, a Play in One Act. By Hildegarde Flanner. Originally produced by the Indiana Little Theatre Society.
Three Arts Magazine: "This thoughtful and well-written play of Characters and Ideals has become a favorite with Little Theatres and is now available in print."

HEARTS TO MEND, a Fantasy in One Act. By H. A. Overstreet. Originally produced by the Fireside Players, White Plains, N. Y.
St. Louis Star: "It is a light whimsy and well carried out."
San Francisco Chronicle: "No one is likely to hear or read it without real and legitimate pleasure."

SIX WHO PASS WHILE THE LENTILS BOIL. By Stuart Walker.
Originally produced by the Portmanteau Players at Christodora House, New York City.
Brooklyn Eagle: "Literary without being pedantic, and dramatic without being noisy."

OTHERS TO FOLLOW. Bound in Art Paper. Each, net, .50