Excerpt from The Stick-Up: A Rough-Neck Fantasy<br><br>This volume represents a careful and intelligent selection oi the best One-act Plays written by Americans and produced by the Little Theatres in America during the season of 1921. They are representative of' the best work of writers in this field and show the high level to which the art theatre has risen in America.<br><br>The editor has brought to his task a love of the theatre and a knowledge of what is best through long association with the leading producing groups.<br><br>The volume contains the repertoires of the leading Little Theatres, together with bibliographies of published plays and books on the theatre issued since January, 1920, Aside from its individual importance, the volume, together with Fifty Contemporary one-act Plays, will make up the most important collection of short plays published.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.