Produced by Dianne Bean WASHINGTON SQUARE PLAYS Volume XX, The Drama League Series of Plays 1. The Clod. By Lewis Beach 2. Eugenically Speaking. By Edward Goodman 3. Overtones. By Alice Gerstenberg 4. Helena's Husband. By Philip Moeller With An Introduction By Walter Prichard Eaton Preface By Edward Goodman Director of the Washington Square Players Garden City New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1925 Copyright, 1916, By Doubleday, Page & Company The Clod. Copyright, 1914, By Emmet Lewis Beach Eugenically Speaking. Copyright, 1914, By Edward Goodman Overtones. Copyright, 1913, By Alice Gerstenberg Helena's Husband. Copyright, 1915, By Philip Moeller In its present form these plays are dedicated to the reading public only, and no performance of them may be given. Printed In The United States At The Country Life Press, Garden City, N. Y. INTRODUCTION The rigid conventionality of the theatre has been frequently remarked upon. Why the world should ever fear a radical, indeed, is hard to see, since he has against him the whole dead weight of society; but least of all need the radical be dreaded in the theatre. When the average person pays money for his amusements, he is little inclined to be pleased with something which doesn't amuse him: and what amuses him, nine times out of ten, is what has amused him. That is why changes in the theatre are relatively slow, and customs long prevail, even till it seems they may corrupt the theatrical world.