“THE SILVER BOX”
TN view of the fact that the Wellingx ton Repertory Society has chosen Mr. John Galsworthy’s “The Silver Box” for their next production, to be staged in the Concert Chamber under the direction of Mr. Leo du Chateau about the end of June, a brief extract from an article by Richard Prentis, the noted authority on the drama, in “John o’ London’s Weekly” should be of interest: “In my opinion the six best English plays, leaving Shakespeare out of it entirely, are ‘Everyman,’ ‘The Duchess of Malli.’ ‘The Way of the World,’ ‘Caste,’ ‘The Second Mrs. Tanqueray,’ and ‘When Knights Were Bold.’ And the six best plays written in the last thirty years or so I consider are Masefield’s ‘Nan.’ Galsworthy’s ‘The Silver Box,’ Barrie’s ‘The Admirable Crichton.’ Drinkwater’s ‘Abraham Lincoln,’ Maugham’s ‘Our Betters,’ and either ‘St. Joan’ or four-fifths of ‘The Doctor’s Dilemma.’ ”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 201, 22 May 1936, Page 16
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