Judge — February 10, 1923 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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nly Mr. her ‘to itic the ber. iki, rie Us- he- no nt an mut ast ns MYSTERY EXPLAINED Crawford—Your wife must be a brave woman to knock | out the burglar who was trying to get in the window. Crabshaw—Well, you see, it was this way. She thought it was I. ne Exempiary Tueater,” by Har- ley Granville-Barker (who used to be just’ Granville Barker); Little Brown & Co. We can’t review this book. We couldn't read it. It was too dull. Ax Somerninc American! (Gosh, £Y% this European invasion is getting us edged over to the hundred percenters. Before we know it, we'll be cutting our hed sheets into a uniform!) ‘Carolina Folk Plays” (Henry Holt & Co.), written and acted by Professor Koch's pupils at the University of North Carolina, and then taken on a tour of the State. Here are four one-act pieces le by under- graduates, out of the life of their native region, and well-made, too, acted by them, the scenery built by them, eve thing done by them. Here is a true ama- teur theater, created to bring a richer, fuller life to a community far from Broad- way, and even farther from) Moscow. With or without Ge: Nathan's per. mission, we toss up our hat and ery, Hoorah! *((Covtmrorsnr One Act Ptays.” chosen by B. Roland Lewis (Charles Seribner’s Sons) contains eighteen excel- lent short dramas, from various tor including the S an, and a treatise on the one At the same time, Stewart, Kidd have issued “Fifty One Act Plays.” chosen by Frank , f them from the recent Little ature of this country. If you can t find something to act, in one or the other of these books, when you desire to raise money for the Village Improvement Society, this winter, you are pretty fussy. Some of the plays, indeed, would improve it ina tions. the village immense-| ]] planations that ly. Alot of the prudes and hypocrites would perish of shock. “TLoxeee Prays| By MoperN Autuors,” — selected by Helen Louise Cohen (Harcourt, Brace). We've spent | some time trying to figure out just_ why Mathematical Chart Revolutionizes Mathematics Solves more problems than is possible on sliderule, does This chart multiplies and divides, gives you all decimal equivalents, interest calculations, roots and powers of numbers, trigonometric solutions, algebraic solutions, conversions and other solu- The hardest. probler n accompany the chart. rapid. calculation, all from which general calculations can be Charts With Instructions 1614 inch on book paper 50 cents, on ledger paper $1.00. 34 inch $10.00, 40 inch $25.00, 6 foot $50.00, 8 foot $100.00. Charts aluminum three times above prices. E. L. RICE, E. L. RICE fraction of the time s are solved after short study of ex- Invaluable for ny previous method of cal- surpasse ice is complete without a large Indorsed by best mathematical author- me size on celluloid coated Machinists Bldg., Wash., D. C. Miss Cohen chose the four plays in this‘ volume. They are Fitch's “Beau Brum- mell” (never anything but a_ picture frame for Mansfield’s character sketch), Thomas's “The Copperhead.” the Kauf- mann-Connelly piece, “Dul and Tarkington’s “The Intimate Strangers,” played a year ago by Billie Burke. We've finally de she put in the Fitch affair to make it harder, like the raisins in the cider, and the other three plays are to show the American drama unaffected by Europe. All three, certainly. nous. They are as American as *corn- fritters or the Eighteenth Amendment. We are forced to confess that they are more indigenous than distinguished. Artuur’s Socks,” — one-act d= Dell (Alfred A. Knopf): sophisticated sex, originally pro- duced for the bene! the Greenwich Village Improvement Society. Bowe ayn Sov,” a play in four acts by Arnold Bennett (George H. Doran Co.); Mr. Bennett. taking a day off to write parlor theatricals. HREE Pays,” by Luigi Pirandello (translated; E. P. Dutton & Co.). One of them is “s Characters i Search of an Author.” The other two will perplex you just as much. If you havent any theory about their meaning, you can’t) go to dinner’ parties this winter. Mie Nationa ANTHEM, x Hartley iners (George H. Doran Co.), acted a year ag Paylor; a dramatic delirium designed to over- throw j **QcramBiep Eccs,” by Lawton Mack- all and F. R. FT my (Stewart, Kidd). A one-act satiric farce, the scene abarnyard. It isa comic Chanticler. Ex- cellent for amateurs, though not for a Sunday school benefit. Well, we're not at the bottom of the pile yet, but this is absolutely all we are going to review for George until he ope closet again. The frisky old and flippity flopped and there for a drank milk from a but when he went and trotted along camel came in with to the tip of his while he played bottle and ate a out, he jumped up on a telegraph a jump hump, big pie; rock-a-by-by, even higher, wire.