The theatre- on stage and off -- is the core of selections culled here from previously published books. Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man, O. Henry's The Furnished Room, John O'Hara's Drawing Room are companions for other tales from Arnold Bennett, Louis Bromfield, Irvin S. Cobb, Noel Coward, Richard Harding Davis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Galsworthy, with a range from small satire to melodrama. Not necessarily literary masterpieces but interesting coverage.