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A Really Convincin G One-act Play Is A Boon To Amateurs,

whether as a curtain-raiser or to round-off a miscellaneous entertainment. With Wrecked and The Romantic Lover ( Dublin : M. H. Gill, ls. 6d. each ) Mr. Bernard MacCarthy has......

Only A Bold Man Dare Call The Blank-verse Drama An

exhausted form, but certainly it has reached a sta g e where only a very stron g personality can escape burial under the amal g amated style of his predecessors. Mr. Cecil......

Joseph Of Arimathaea. By Edward Percy. ( Burns And Oates....

play written in the literary manner, but with the exi g en- cies of the theatre in mind and containin g some successful characterization.......

The Aylesbury& By Harold Downs. ( C. W. Daniel. 3s. 6d.

net. ) —When a g irl of the lower middle-class discovers that the well-to-doyoun g man with whom she is in love is a bounder, the effects on herself and on her family are sure......