New York Tribune: “One of the few pleas for peace that touch both the heart and the intelligence.... Its remarkable blending of stark realism with extravagant fancy strikes home.... It is well nigh impossible to rid one’s mind of its stirring effect.”
New York Times: “Impressive, elaborate and ambitious.... A voice raised in the theater against the monstrous horror and infamy of war.... The Junior Lieutenant has in him just a touch of ‘The Brushwood Boy.’”
Of the author’s “Allison’s Lad” and other one-act plays of various wars ($1.35 net), The Transcript said, “The technical mastery of Miss Dix is great, but her spiritual mastery is greater. For this book lives in the memory.”
Percival L. Wilde’s DAWN and Other One-Act Plays
“Short, sharp and decisive” episodes of contemporary life. Notable for force, interest and at times humor. $1.20 net.
DAWN, a tense episode in the hut of a brutal miner, with a supernatural climax. THE NOBLE LORD, a comedy about a lady, who angled with herself as bait. THE TRAITOR is discovered by a ruse of a British commanding officer. A HOUSE OF CARDS, about a closed door, and what was on the other side—tragic. PLAYING WITH FIRE, a comedy about the devotion of a boy and girl. THE FINGER OF GOD points the way to an ex-criminal by means of a girl he had never seen before.
Lily A. Long’s RADISSON: The Voyageur
A highly picturesque play in four acts and in verse. The central figures are Radisson the redoubtable voyageur who explored the Upper Mississippi, his brother-in-law Groseilliers, Owera the daughter of an Indian chief, and various other Indians. The daring resource of the two white men in the face of imminent peril, the pathetic love of Owera, and above all, the vivid pictures of Indian life, the women grinding corn, the council, dances, feasting and famine are notable features, and over it all is a somewhat unusual feeling for the moods of nature which closely follow those of the people involved. $1.00 net.
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