Plays For Small Stages by Mary Aldis (1915)

This is a collection of five one-act plays written for amateur players by a participant in Chicago's Little Theatre after 1911, led by Maurice Browne and located in the Fine Arts Building, Michigan Ave., Chicago.  The players were typically summer and weekend neighbors and guests in Lake Forest, where her little playhouse and theatre company were located, on her estate/compound (southeast corner of Deerpath and Green Bay Road).  The plays' titles are: "Mrs. Pat and the Law," "The Drama Club of Tankaha, Nevada," "Extreme Unction," "The Letter," and "Temperment."  These are preceded by an excellent introduction, giving a rationale for the type and circumstances and with advice.  

The book was published in New York by Duffield & Co., a successor to H. S. Stone & Co. and to Stone & Kimball, elite small-press-run publishers with a Chicago inclination.

See "Selected Finding Aids" for the Mary Aldis collection of typescript, unpublished one-acts translated from the French, a few photos of productions, and misc. reference material.  

Aldis, Mary, 1872-

Lake Forest College

1915

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Call number: Treasure Room PS 3501 .L375 P5 1915