DRAMATIC CLUB'S PLAYS

The Harvard Dramatic Club announces this year as its annual spring production, four one-act plays, written by students of Harvard and Radcliffe. The competition was so large and of such an unusually high standard of excellence, that it was difficult for the judges to decide upon the best plays. The following were selected after careful consideration: "The Head of the Family" by George Francis Abbott 1G., of Hamburg, N. Y.; "Kid" by Elma Caroline Ehrlich, Radcliffe Sp., of Chicago, III.; "Alaric Jourdan's House" by Ralph Milbourne Townsend 1G., of Wellesley; and "The Foundlings" by Annie Andros Hawley, Radcliffe Sp., of Brookline.

Mr. Abbott's "The Head of the Family" is a poignant little tragedy revolving about the internal strife in a country family between a brutal husband and his down-trodden wife. The strong forces in the play are the two children whose education has far outstripped that of their parents.

In "Kid", Miss Enrlich portrays in a vivid and sympathetic manner a "sentimental episode", showing the effect of a hunch-backed newsboy and two sailors upon an unhappy young girl who is contemplating suicide.

Mr. Townsend has written an intensely moving tragedy in "Alaric Jourdan's House". All the monotonous majesty of the land of the St. Lawrence is felt in the situation involving three tellingly drawn characters, and the play moves with almost classic poise to an inevitable denouement of great power.

Miss Hawley's "The Foundlings" is in lighter vein. Two young girls happen, by mistake, into apartments which are in temporary use by a young lord, and are discovered there by two of his men friends, while they are paying him a visit. The complications that ensue are deftly handled with consummate skill, and the result is a delicate little comedy bubbling over with humor of delicious spontaneity.

Tickets at $1.50 and $1.00 are on sale at Herrick's Jordan Hall, Harvard Co-operative Stores and H. G. Smith, 45 Fairfax Hall.

The Cosmopolitan Club will hold a German European Night in the club rooms this evening at 7.30 o'clock.