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id: 3068
title: Washington Square Plays
author: Moeller, Philip
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  The best one-act plays so far written in English have come After a moment, MARY TRASK, a tired, emaciated woman, whose years equal Ye know I ain''t got time t'' stop an'' load when I see the THADDEUS.] Pull the table away and let''s see what''s behind the door. MARY [almost with a cry--thinking that DICK has seen the NORTHERNER]. [To MARY.] Come, woman, who drove that horse know that horse looks bad--but as I live I ain''t heard a sound, or seen [MARY stands looking at him.] Don''t you know anything, you brainless Yes. Please tell my father that I''d like to see him at once. BRAITHEWAITE [looks at GEORGE and UNA and then sits in the chair pinched-looking there I couldn''t tell what they''d be like if they got HARRIET [coming down right of table]. [PARIS stops.] No man but the King can come


id: 37970
title: Contemporary One-Act Plays
author: nan
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  A select list of fifty one-act plays. (Appendix: _List of Plays Produced in Little Theatres_). American Authors_ (Appendix: _Selective List of One-Act Plays by _Selected List of Christmas Plays._ Drama League Calendar, November Amateurs._ Drama League Calendar, October 1, 1918, New York. _Selected List of Plays for Amateurs._ The Drama League, Boston. contains a revised list of one-act plays). Corbin, John, _The One-Act Play_, in the New York _Times_, May, Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1917. Gibbs, Clayton E., _The One-Act Play_, in _The Theatre_, Vol. Goodman, Edward, _Why the One-Act Play_?, in _The Theatre_, Vol. Play?_?The Century Company, New York, 1920. Roland, _The One-Act Play in Colleges and High Schools, Roland, _The One-Act Play in Colleges and High Schools, Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1920. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1920. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1920. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1920.


id: 39243
title: Six One-Act Plays
author: Oliver, Margaret Scott
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  KODAMA--As thou art a woman, and beautiful, I love thee ... LAGRIMAS--I have heard thee speak much of both, Don Rodriguez. LAGRIMAS--I stand between thee and thy father. RODRIGUEZ--Now I _know_ thou dost not love me. GENERAL--(_To Hafiz._) A boy to capture thee! GENERAL--Thou art too wise to throw thy life away. RODRIGUEZ--Father, I tried to see thee last night, and thy door was GENERAL--Thou hast chosen thy way. LAGRIMAS--I thought thou wast a Spanish boy. GENERAL--Lieutenant Don Rodriguez, wilt thou explain that our King deems GENERAL--Is it thus thou showest love for Don Rodriguez? QUINN--A strike''s a bitter thing Mrs. Martin, and no one knowin'' Bart rushes to King, knocking against the Boy as he does so, and sending (_Exeunt Bart, King, Miss Brown, Officer and Policeman. BART AND KING--(_With outstretched hands._) Selina! (_The Gentleman helps Selina into her wraps, while Bart and King again


id: 36984
title: Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays
author: nan
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  for; ''tis long years she''ll live to think ower it and watch the thing tell you, such a beautiful little girl just like her. [_Mrs. Rooney looks through the window at a man turning in from the street._] go--maybe--and sets to work on them right away when he gets back home. Good-by, Mrs. Rooney--next time you come, maybe you see her in the baby-carriage. [_Kezia clasps her hands behind her head and looks into Joe''s face I would if I could; but my life is in the hands of God. OLD MAN [_mocking_]. his right._] You came here, old man, and opened my eyes to the mysteries THEKLA [_turns away from the square table and comes to Adolf''s right_]. Yes, I want to know what it''s like inside. [_A man enters and kneels, looking at Life off stage, in fear._] James Madden, I like t'' know w''at right you got t'' talk t''


id: 49993
title: Polite Satires: Containing The Unknown Hand, The Volcanic Island, Square Pegs
author: Bax, Clifford
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  its right, a chair; to its left, an easy chair and a small table. Two envelopes and a new novel lie on the table._ JULIET _is "Calypso and Her Loves," by Galahad Green. The book: she can''t think I am Galahad Green. And then--she''s just the girl to read a book, Juliet--I''ve read a book---I? Dear Juliet, you can love me still! And James need never know I''ve read them.... Jung with your right hand, with your left hand Freud, But think, my dear--he simply wouldn''t do. But if you really want it, let me know?'' May turn the Book of Time to any page I think you must have come from Titian''s days. My dear, you played old Harry to the life-Harry will love her more than me, I know. I think of his good heart: I know how proud they come to the front, left and right._)


id: 43299
title: Square Pegs: A Rhymed Fantasy For Two Girls
author: Bax, Clifford
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  Antique Pageantry: Four Plays in verse (including The Poetasters). Phyllis Reid (Hilda Gray) and Margot Sieveking (Gioconda), having been Enter left_, HILDA _in HILDA (_speaking off, left_). To know that here the roar of time has ended! Enter, right_, GIOCONDA _carrying two or I need but ask her which way London lies. I think you must have come from Titian''s days. naturally you think that Harry writes Did he, I''d read his letters ten times over-But you don''t know the Twentieth Century lover. ''Dear Hilda, if you buy _The Star_ _Enter, left_, GIOCONDA (_carrying a pipe and a walking-stick_). Old thing--you really look top-hole to-day. My dear, you played old Harry to the life-[HILDA _enters, right._ Harry will love her more than me, I know. I think of his good heart: I know how proud Gioconda, dear--good-bye! Then they come to the front, left and right._


id: 51984
title: Thursday Evening: A Comedy in One Act
author: Morley, Christopher
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  Laura, Mrs. Gordon Johns Mrs. Sheffield, Lauras Mother Mrs. Johns, Gordons Mother _A small suburban kitchen in the modest home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon _When the scene opens, GORDON and LAURA are carrying in soiled dishes pause, while Gordon scrapes portions of food off the soiled plates. know, I''m a little worried about Mother. I guess throwing away good, hard-earned money is my affair, isn''t it? Talk about being spoiled--why, your Mother babies you so, you think Mrs. Johns, because Laura is an undisciplined little thing, and I''m I wish Gordon was a little younger, I''d like to turn him up and spank think it''s heartrending to see an attractive girl like Laura shut up _look_ at the poor little thing-Poor darling Laura--she never ought to have had a baby. I think the way Laura runs her little home is just wonderful. Yes. As Laura''s mother, I can''t let her go on like this.


id: 54711
title: Sweet and Twenty: A Comedy in One Act
author: Dell, Floyd
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  This volume contains FIFTY REPRESENTATIVE ONE-ACT PLAYS of the MODERN choicest plays produced by the art theaters all over the world. to secure the best work available, and the plays are issued in a form MANSIONS, a Play in One Act. _By Hildegarde Flanner._ Originally I was looking at the house, you know. see, the man that built this house was in love with a girl. house where there''s been an unhappy marriage, why, good heavens, where In short, he seems like a young man who has men used to fall on their knees when they told a girl they loved her; I only know that we love each other. Do you suppose anyone is likely to come this way? Your aunt, Miss Brooke--and (_to the young woman_) your uncle, Mr. Egerton--(_The young people turn and stare at each other in amazement._) you don''t want to marry this young man? Yes, I''d like to know!


