E.m. Delafield

While England's Richard I fights in the crusades and his brother John consumes the riches at home, Matty, an accomplished falconer, seeks adventures with a group of friends, among them the future Robin Hood.

This is a fine English historical novel set during the Wars of the Roses. It focuses on the fortunes of the daughter of Warwick the Kingmaker, Anne Neville, who was married first to the Lancastrian Edward Prince of Wales, and then the Yorkist Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III. This unjustly neglected work is a beautifully-written glimpse into the manners and mores of 15th-century England, with penetrating character-studies of the principle figures of the Wars of the Roses, especially of Anne Neville, a sheltered and somewhat simple girl ruthlessly used as a pawn by great nobles in their dynastic strategies, and of the enigmatic Richard Plantagenet.

Belasco Theatre, Washington, D.C., David Belasco and Sam S. and Lee Shubert, proprietors and managers, direction of Sam S. and Lee Shubert (Inc.), L. Stoddard Taylor, resident manager. The Ben Greet Players in "David Garrick," a comedy in three acts by T.W. Robertson, preceded by "The Burglar and the Judge," a comedy in one act by F.C. Phillips and Chas. Brookfield.

Seventeenth century royal-in-exile Elizabeth of Bohemia pursues a clandestine relationship with an African prince against the politically unstable and war-threatened climate of the period.