Mistress Nell: A Merry Tale of a Merry Time
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GROSSET & DUNLAP'S DRAMATIZED NOVELS
Original, sincere and courageous--often amusing--the kind that aremaking theatrical history.
MADAME X. By Alexandre Bisson and J. W. McConaughy. Illustrated withscenes from the play.
A beautiful Parisienne became an outcast because her husband would notforgive an error of her youth. Her love for her son is the great finalinfluence in her career. A tremendous dramatic success.
THE GARDEN OF ALLAH. By Robert Hichens.
An unconventional English woman and an inscrutable stranger meet andlove in an oasis of the Sahara. Staged this season with magnificent castand gorgeous properties.
THE PRINCE OF INDIA. By Lew. Wallace.
A glowing romance of the Byzantine Empire, presenting with extraordinarypower the siege of Constantinople, and lighting its tragedy with thewarm underglow of an Oriental romance. As a play it is a great dramaticspectacle.
TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY. By Grace Miller White. Illust. by HowardChandler Christy.
A girl from the dregs of society, loves a young Cornell Universitystudent, and it works startling changes in her life and the lives ofthose about her. The dramatic version is one of the sensations of theseason.
YOUNG WALLINGFORD. By George Randolph Chester. Illust. by F. R. Grugerand Henry Raleigh.
A series of clever swindles conducted by a cheerful young man, each ofwhich is just on the safe side of a State's prison offense. As"Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," it is probably the most amusing expose ofmoney manipulation ever seen on the stage.
THE INTRUSION OF JIMMY. By P. G. Wodehouse. Illustrations by Will Grefe.
Social and club life in London and New York, an amateur burglaryadventure and a love story. Dramatized under the title of "A Gentlemanof Leisure," it furnishes hours of laughter to the play-goers.
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