| | | Attention is called to the penalty provided by law for any | | infringement of the author’s rights, as follows: | | | | “SECTION 4966:--Any person publicly performing or representing | | any dramatic or musical composition for which copyright has | | been obtained, without the consent of the proprietor of said | | dramatic or musical composition, or his heirs and assigns, | | shall be liable for damages thereof, such damages, in all | | cases to be assessed at such sum, not less than one hundred | | dollars for the first and fifty dollars for every subsequent | | performance, as to the court shall appear to be just. If | | the unlawful performance and representation be wilful and | | for profit, such person or persons shall be guilty of a | | misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be imprisoned for a | | period not exceeding one year.”--U. S. Revised Statutes: Title | | 60, Chap. 3. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ =To= GARDNER and MARICE SOUVENIR OF HAPPY DAYS IN THE FOREST WHERE MUCH OF THIS WAS WRITTEN In the prefaces to my five previous volumes I have sufficiently explained my reason for play publication--not as a substitute for production but as an alternative sometimes compelled by the exigencies of a highly commercialized theater. Further, I have stated in other places why I have so frequently turned to the one-act form. The present volume is dedicated to no thesis, though perhaps the title may offer some hint of the underlying motive which has prompted this series. G. M. _December 23, 1919._ CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE v MASKS 3 JIM’S BEAST 67 TIDES 113 AMONG THE LIONS 149 THE REASON 181 THE HOUSE 211 MASKS THE PEOPLE GRANT WILLIAMS, _a dramatist_. JERRY, _his wife_. {_Characters_ {_in his_ TOM ROBINSON, _a great painter_. {_unproduced_ MARIE CASE, _formerly Tom’s wife_. {_drama “The_ {_Lonely Way.”_ SCENE _In the_ WILLIAMS’ _flat, New York City, after the second performance of_ GRANT WILLIAMS’ _first great success_, THE SAND BAR, _produced at the National Theater_. MASKS[A]