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Copyright, 1880, by J. S. MacKaye

Copyright, 1908, by M. M. MacKaye

[In Renewal]

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Copyright in Great Britain and Ireland, and in all Countries Subscribing to the Bern Convention.

Published, 1916.

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Special Notice.

This play in its printed form is designed for the reading public only. All dramatic rights in it are fully protected by copyright, both in the United States and in Great Britain, and no public or private performance—professional or amateur—may be given without the written permission of the owner of the copyright and the payment of royalty. As the courts have also ruled that the public reading of a play, for pay or where tickets are sold, constitutes a "performance," no such reading may be given except under conditions as above stated. Anyone disregarding the author's rights renders himself liable to prosecution. For permission to perform or read in public this play, communication should he sent to Mrs. Steele MacKaye, in care of the publishers.