Plays Chosen for Dramatic Club

The Graduate Committee of the Harvard Dramatic Club consisting of Professor G. P. Baker '87, Mr. Winthrop Ames '95, and Mr. H. T. Parker of the Boston Transcript have chosen the following one-act plays for the annual spring performance: "The Better Way" by Paul Mariett '11, "Marvelous Bentham" by Hermann Hagedorn '07, "The New Age" by David Carb '08, and "The Better Man" by T. H. Guild 2G.

"The Better Way," which is the central play of the performance, is an adaptation from "El Afrancesado of Alarcon." It is placed in Padion, Spain at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Garcia, a leading Spanish apothecary, who is suspected of sympathizing with the officers of Napoleon's Army, gives a dinner to them in his apothecary shop. He puts poison in the wine and kills both the officers and himself. The townspeople rush in at the end and then realize his devotion to his country.

"Marvelous Bentham" is a farce which deals with the president of the American Feather Company who is on the point of avoiding the trust troubles by a cruise on his yacht, with the secretary Bentham who acts at the other end of the telephone. The play is full of farcical dramatic situations because of the love affairs or two daughters, the son, a count, and a French actress. At the climax Bentham telephones that he and the actress have taken the yacht.

"The New Age" is placed in Richmond, Virginia, in 1865; and the action of the play hangs on the arrival of the news of Lee's surrender, influencing a wounded Confederate soldier and his sweetheart. It is a delicate romance of the South and is a strong presentation of the Confederate loyalty to the cause, and the misery and suffering which followed Lee's surrender.

"The Better Man" is a serious play in a bowery mission in New York. The leading character is "Easy" Joe, who is a drunkard reformed at the "Bridge Mission." The Governor of the State makes a speech at the Mission, in which he praises brotherly love and help of the unfortunate. Joe claims the Governor as his brother. The latter part of the play is a conflict of the Governor between the dignity of his office and the claim of the drunkard, in which finally the Governor accepts Joe as his brother.

The results of the trials will be in Monday's CRIMSON and the first rehearsal will be held on Monday evening.

Trials Assigned for Today.

The following men are asked to report in the Assembly Room of the Union at their appointed hours today: 9.20, F. W. Copeland '13; 9.25, A. J. Camprubi '13; 9.30, T. A. Jenckes, Jr., '13; 9.35, W. S. Henderson '12; 9.40, G. C. Loud '13; 9.45, S. A. Eliot '13; 9.50, C. MacR. Makepeace '13; 10.05, J. B. Langstaff '13; 10.10, J. J. McGinley '13; 10.15, J. Indelkofer sC.; 10.20, S. A. Friede '13; 10.25, H. H. Howard 1M.; 10.30, H. D. Barton '11; 10.35, J. M. Halle '13; 10.40, R. Beatley '13; 10.45, N. R. Sturgis '12; 10.50, E. O. Houser uC.; 10.55, E. Angell '11; 11, S. G. Biddle '13; 11.05, F. M. Eliot '11; 11.10, W. F. Avery '10; 11.15, J. A. Hovey uC.; 11.20, W. B. Durant, Jr., '10; 11.25, B. L. Chase '13; 11.30, T. C. Stowell '12; 11.35, M. C. Fisher '12; 11.40, L. McK. Miller '10; 11.50, P. H. Bunker '11; 12, A. W. Knauth '12; 12.05, R. H. Bolling '12; 12.10, T. T. Baldwin '12; 1.30, B. Morrison '12; 1.35, E. H. Thompson '12; 1.40, E. I. Cooper '13; 1.45, I. G. Rouillard '12; 1.50, J. Weare 1L.; 1.55, R. F. Duncan '12; 2, H. C. Simon sC.; 2.05, S. P. Robincau 1L.; 2.10, P. J. Stearns '13; 2.15, R. H. Wright '13; 2.20, L. W. Sapinsky uC.; 2.30, H. N. Matthews '13; 2.35, W. W. Hackman 1G.; 2.40, A. Z. Pyles '10