. Society and Babe Robinson; . A WORD TO THE READER This play is a dramatized version of an unpublished novel of thesame name which has claimed my attention ever since 1885. It isnow being published in book-form, not so much to display a knowl-edge of dramatic technique, as to reveal the workings of the humanheart, of rougher human nature, and to picture the streets of old SanFrancisco briefly and with vividness. A good stage-manager maveasily prepare this mental offspring of mine for stage-presentation,but doubtless he would make changes requiring someone to bemarried off in the last act. To
. Society and Babe Robinson; . A WORD TO THE READER This play is a dramatized version of an unpublished novel of thesame name which has claimed my attention ever since 1885. It isnow being published in book-form, not so much to display a knowl-edge of dramatic technique, as to reveal the workings of the humanheart, of rougher human nature, and to picture the streets of old SanFrancisco briefly and with vividness. A good stage-manager maveasily prepare this mental offspring of mine for stage-presentation,but doubtless he would make changes requiring someone to bemarried off in the last act. To my mind the conventional endingof a play, in wedding, divorce or death, does not seem to be the onlyone, although it does appeal to the average publisher and stage-manager. 1 interpret the great Hook of Life differently, and I believe thatthe general public is coming to read it according to the more naturalway, too. To survive is the first law of our nature. Therefore in Societyyou will find all, the high and the low, the rich
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