"The Master" is a modern thought production, in which the author gives us his chief character, ruled, presumably, by reason--by the idea that one should have individual freedom to follow the mandates of his own desires in the largest things of life. The author has accomplished a thoroughly fine task.

Three players stand far above the rest. These are Arnold Daly, in the part of the Master, Edyth Latimer as his wife, and Edward Abeles as Dr. Rokoro, a native of Japan who is learning wisdom at the Master's hospital.

Mr. Daly takes his part wonderfully well. The Master, a man of clay, caustic humor, who dominates others with his materialistic but liberal ideas, is before us in the life. When he is involved in the wheels of his own scheme of existence, it is with a feeling almost of loss that we find the Master dominated, after all, by his emotions.

As Katherine, the Master's wife, Edyth Latimer shows us, in the first two acts, a suppressed personality who blossoms at the last; tests, with her infidelity, her husband's scheme of things and throws them into confusion.

And Edward Abeles as Dr. Rokoro, though he has little acting to do in a physical way, wins us to him with his parrot-like, clipped English--by his primitive, direct philosophy.

One can easily see that the play is of foreign origin for though it might concede something to the public in the way of a happy ending, it does not do so. Instead it comes to an artistic but unhappy close. It is one of the few of our latest plays that has real stuff in it.