Show Authoress Confesses Lure of Stage I Mary Ca Cass s Canfield aut author or of the just published volume of es essays essays essays es- es says Grotesques says that while he her hed r only recognized job is ls islo to lo criticise plays books and personalities per per- she Is a secret playwright playwright play play- wright t which is worse than being a secret drinker Miss CanfIeld explains I am enchanted by a playhouse full tull and lighted or empty save for a a. single glaring bulb and shadowy figures rehears rehearsing ing on a bare stage II am en enthralled enthralled en- en thra led by bY the the game and make- make believe belleve of the theatre and the sight of a gilt pasteboard paste crown Is enough to set me murmuring Come let let us sit upon the ground And tell sad tales about the death of at kIngs I This may explain why the last half of my book Grotesques is concerned with plays and players and bears the somewhat melancholy melancholy melan melan- choly and reminiscent subtitle of Curtain Calls |