Show 1 Contemporary One Act Plays Plays' Being I i I Enthusiastically Received as Text BY HELEN BOYDEN B. B Roland Lewis head hend of ot the de department department department de- de of English at tho the University ity of at Utah has Just recently had published by Charles ScrIbner and Sons Son Contemporary One Act Plays for tho the use of ot both teachers and stu stu- dents Prof Proto Lewis Is known throughout through through- out the country as an authority on this class of or literature Tho book contains an outline study of ot the one-act one pia play a a. group of ot twenty twenty t ty plays and In tho appendix are complete completo bibliographies Tho The crItIcal critical critical cal Introduction deals with tho the technique technique tech tech- of or the one-act one play and In Includes Includes includes In- In a a. dramatic analysis anC and lines of ot construction of ot this form a of writ writ- Ing InS The Tho critical reviews are excellent excellent excellent excel excel- lent and arc of ot great value alue There Thero has been for tor some Borne time a a. a great need for tor a a. book dealing with this material because of ot the tho growing Importance of or tho the one act play Prof Lewis has endeavored to have everyone everyone everyone every every- one possess a a. complete understanding understand understand- ing and appreciation of or this litera lItera- ture turo The Tho selections given aro are wholesome wholesome wholesome whole whole- some and uplifting all forms are represented tragedies comedies farces and melo melodramas ramas Each of at thoplas tho the plays plas aro are good dramatic art and a perfect style of at the tho type of at plays plas under under un un- un der discussion The Tho plays ar are aro by world writers illustrating Il Illustrating il- il Russian French Swedish Welsh Gorman German Irish and Yiddish dramatic art Authors have been chosen from tho the principal nations so ISO that tho reader may see o the tho various characteristics of at many countries Four plays plas were ere written In American Ameri Ameri- can coh colleges and universities and typify It the life of ot America These four tour plays are arc one from each of at tho the following fol lowing University of North Carolina Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- lina of ot North Dakota Harvard and the University of ot Utah Utah's representative is b by Miss Althea Thurston Thuraton with her play pIa Tho The Exchange This play Is rapidly growing In popularity The Tho last week in August tho the play was given in four places at the same time It was presented presented presented pre pre- at the tho Old Peoples People's Reunion at Lagoon Utah at t tho o State Teachers Teachers' Teachers Teachers' Teach Tench- ers' ers Institution Hamilton Ohio at atI I Arts and Crafts Cratts Theater Milwaukee Wisconsin and on the Ule Johns-Hopkins Johns Campus Baltimore Maryland l Prof ProC Lewis has written several books on the subject of ot one-act one plays plas and other subjects closely allied wits with it The Technique of or the tho One Act Plays which ho he had published in 1918 1915 remains still the authority on tho the subject The Contemporary One-Act One Plays Plas Is meeting nn an unusual rec reception and Is and rapidly being adopted in colleges cs universities everywhere |