BETTY. [Holding up her hand so that the ring sparkles.] Look, Charles—the diabolical circle!
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THE FAR-AWAY PRINCESS
BY
HERMANN SUDERMANN
The Far-Away Princess is reprinted by special arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons, the publishers of Roses, from which this play is taken. For permission to perform address the publishers.
Hermann Sudermann, one of the foremost of the Continental European dramatists, was born at Matziken, in East Prussia, Germany, September 30, 1857. He attended school at Elbing and Tilsit, and then at fourteen became a druggist's apprentice. He received his university training at Königsberg and Berlin. Soon he devoted his energies to literary work.