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This book must be regarded as more modern than comic since it conforms to the requirement of the latter day stage that even comedy shall have a background of gravity. The authors play has the primal quality of a drama good as well for the "closet" as for the stage, an unflagging dramatic interest. It has no dull lines, and even the characters who have a moral to teach or a theory to enforce deliver their message in brief and entertaining speeches. The author's plot is ingenious and his situations are engagingly unexpected. The Title role is by far the best part in the play and the unchastened woman, Mrs. Hubert Knollys, conventional woman of the great social world though she is the true social anarchist, rather than the professed anarchist, as is Michael Krellin. Knollys, the husband, is well done, and so is Mrs. Murtha the charwoman, while Susan Ambie is a good enough foil to Mrs. Knolly; and the Sanbury, husband and wife, and Miss Madden play up well with the Knolly's Pair. Mrs Knolly's finaly piece of malice is almost too diabolical but hardly out of keeping with the woman as she has appeared throughout the play. With rare ability the author has maintained his complicated situation quite above and beyond aught that is possible in real life without descending to farce or the suggestion of farce. The play is a thoroughly delightful read.
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He was the author of Challenge of the Unknown: Exploring the Psychic World, with an introduction by Waldemar Kaempffert, which was published by Allen and Unwin, in the United States of America in 1947 by Current Books, and in Great Britain in 1952 by Henderson and Spalding.
(This book must be regarded as more modern than comic sinc...)
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
