| Show I I II I WOMEN BEYOND PALE I ARE PIVOTS OF DRAMAS I By ny IV DEAN DLAN i f. f NEW V YORK Dec 31 One One might surmise surmise surmise sur sur- mise from a a summary of the current season successes and failures alike that the w woman man who lives and loves be beyond beyond beyond be- be yond the pale of convention Is a casual common occurrence In the contemporary life of America Some of these plays point a moral moral- moral moral- that the wages of sin Is death In others comedy Is fashioned from disrupted hom homes s and broken hearts But in most plays of this species the final curtain sets upon a woman embracing embracing em- em bracing gracing tho the husband of another and a alife alife alife life of ease unmarred by qualms of conscience But Its very title of the Field proclaims Itself as such a play Marie Doro Dolo is featured Other Others of similar nature Introduced this season on Broadway or revived from other seasons for road tours are Back Back Pay Payo Fannie Hurst's first play starring Helen I The Circle with Mrs Leslie LesIle Carter and Estelle Winwood Inwood portraying women women women wom wom- en who lea leave e their husbands for other men T Ambush a Theatre Guild iton with Florence Eldredge playing the part of a daughter who solves her fathers father's financial difficulties through the aid of her paramour Daddys Gone H A-H A Hunting in which Marjorie Rambeau flambeau is a wife who leaves her husband to live with another man and finds happiness when he gives her a divorce years later that she may live within convention The Easiest Way by Eugene Walter Walter Walter Wal Wal- ter the first great American success of ot such plays has been revived and sent on tour with Frances Starr The Gold Diggers In which man Ina InaClaire InaClaire Claire was featured last season is an Avery Hopwood come comedy y on tour this season The Varying Shore Elsie Ferguson's Fergusons Fergusons Ferguson's Fergusons Ferguson's sons son's newest vehicle A it 4 I A s f r rr M o Na ambeau L y l rn r r tg r Y 4 |