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- Best one-act plays, 1937-1951/1952
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- Journals, Magazines, Newspapers
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- English
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- Radnor, Pa. : Chilton Book Co
- Publication Dates
- 1937-
- Physical Details
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- volumes ; 21 cm
- ISSNs
- 0067-6284
- OCLC
- ocm01519655
- 1943: Letter to Jackie / Maxwell Anderson -- God and Texas / Robert Ardrey -- Quiet--facing the park / John Cecil Holm -- A tribute to gallantry / Ben Hecht -- Where e'er we go / Pfc. John B. O'Dea -- Mid-passage / Arnold Sundgaard -- The death of Aunt Aggie / Ranald MacDougall -- Murder is fun! / Catherine Blankenship -- They asked for it / Del Smith -- Journey for an unknown soldier / Doris Frankel -- The bridegroom waits / Marrijane and Joseph Hayes -- Bibliographies: Selected plays of the year available for production in America ; New collections of one-act plays available for production in America
- 1948-1949: For each man kills / Gerty Agostom -- Fortunata writes a letter / Theodore Apstein -- A bed with the others / Scott Graham Williamson and Joseph Shore -- Whistle, daughter, whistle / Ernest Kinoy -- A wake for me and thee / Ward Costello -- Patrick Brontë̈ and the saint / Barbara Packer -- Mind in the shadow / Arnold Perl -- O distant land / Stanley Richards -- Wantin' fever (a play with music) / Elizabeth Wilson Hughes -- Impasse / Frederick A. Woodress -- Bibliographies: Selected plays of the year available for production in America ; New collections of one-act plays available for production in America
- 1949-1950: Doctor Faustus lights the lights / Gertrude Stein -- The camel and I / Morton Wishengrad -- August heat / Stanley Richards -- Going home / John Gainfort -- The beast / Gerty Agoston -- Day before yesterday / Norman Holland -- Exodus (a dance-drama) / Marvin W. Robinson -- Period house / Walter Prichard Eaton -- Fantasia on an old familiar theme / Frank Lanzl -- The long fall / Carroll V. Howe -- Bibliographies: Selected plays of the year available for production in America ; New collections of one-act plays available for production in America
- 1969: The Indian wants the Bronx / Israel Horovitz -- Midwestern manic / William Inge -- Bringing it all back home / Terrence McNally -- Clara's ole man / Ed Bullins -- Augustus / Jean Anouilh and Jean Aurenche (translated by George Hauger) -- Daft dream adyin' / Tom Grainger -- The golden fleece / A. R. Gurney, Jr. -- Blake's design / Kenneth H. Brown -- A time to live / Eric Bentley -- Please, no flowers / Joel Ensana -- The tape recorder / Pat Flower -- Stud / Alex Gottleib -- The corrupters / Gergrude Samuels -- Blood-photo / Edward Friedman
- 1970: Next / Terrence McNally -- The trophy hunters / Kedrew Lascelles -- Trevor / John Bowen -- Funnyhouse of a Negro / Adrienne Kennedy -- The new play / William Saroyan -- The ruffian on the stair / Joe Orton -- Acrobats / Israel Horovitz -- The gentleman caller / Ed Bullins -- All on her own / Terrence Rattigan -- Where are you going, Hollis Jay? / Benjamin Bradford -- A day for surprises / John Guare -- The love course / A. R. Gurney, Jr. -- The recorder : a history / Martin Duberman -- A pretty row of pretty ribbons / Brian Gear -- Things went badly in Westphalia / Martin Sherman
- 1971: Billy's last stand / Barry Hines -- Skippy / Howard Sackler -- I can't imagine tomorrow / Tennesse Williams -- Doreen / Alun Owen -- Bad bad Jo-Jo / James Leo Herlihy -- The burial of Esposito / Ronald Ribman -- Steal the old man's bundle / Kenneth Pressman -- Tribal harangue two / Joseph A. Walker -- The Karl Marx play / Rochelle Owens -- The little gentleman / Yale M. Udoff -- Desmond / John Mortimer -- Sandra and the janitor / William Packard
- 1972: Slam the door softly / Clare Boothe Luce -- Contribution / Ted Shine -- The great nebula in Orion / Lanford Wilson -- We're due in Eastbourne in ten minutes / N. F. Simpson -- Wine in the wilderness / Alice Childress -- Once below a lighthouse / Ramon Delgado -- Black Mass / Edward Bond -- The unknown general / René de Obaldia (translated by Donald Watson) -- Live spelled backwards (a moral immorality play) / Jerome Lawrence -- Stella / Terrence Kelly -- Schubert's last serenade / Julie Bovasso -- An interview with F. Scott Fitzgerald / Paul Hunter -- Stay where you are / Olwen Wymark -- Answers / Tom Topor -- And the wind belows / Edgard da Rocha Miranda
- 1973: Double solitaire / Robert Anderson -- Chinamen / Michael Frayn -- Circus lady / Jason Miller -- What use are flowers? (a fable) / Lorraine Hansberry -- Tira tells everything there is to know about herself / Michael Weller -- Tigers / Kendrew Lascelles -- Gordone is a muthah / Charles Gordone -- The ragpickers / Norman Smythe -- Sam Slade is missing / Bill Morrison -- The colonial dudes / Martin Duberman -- High Summer / Terence Rattigan -- Number 9 / Maruxa Vilalta (translated by W. Keith Leonard and Mario T. Soria)