Chapter I: Front Matter

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Established by members of the Dramatists’ Guild of the Authors’ League of America for the handling of the non-professional acting rights of members’ plays and the encouragement of the non-professional theatre.

BARRETT H. CLARK
_Executive Director_

_The_ DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, INC., leases plays, including Broadway
successes, standard plays of the past, and new plays not yet
professionally produced, for the use of college and university theatres,
Little Theatres and other types of non-professionals in the United
States, Canada, and other English-speaking countries. Please send for
lists and other information.

_Advisory Board_

SIDNEY HOWARD
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN
JOHN HOWARD LAWSON
HOWARD LINDSAY
ALBERT MALTZ
KENYON NICHOLSON
CLIFFORD ODETS
EDWARD CHILDS CARPENTER
EUGENE O’NEILL
PHILIP BARRY
ELMER RICE
ROBERT E. SHERWOOD
WALTER PRICHARD EATON
JOHN WEXLEY
GEORGE ABBOTT
MAXWELL ANDERSON
MARC CONNELLY
RACHEL CROTHERS
MARTIN FLAVIN
SUSAN GLASPELL
JOHN GOLDEN
ARTHUR HOPKINS
AUSTIN STRONG

6 EAST 39TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY

BEYOND THE
HORIZON

By
EUGENE O’NEILL

PUBLISHED FOR

THE DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE
_by_
RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK

_Copyright, 1921, by Eugene O’Neill_

CAUTION: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that _Beyond the Horizon_, being fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America, the British Empire, including the Dominion of Canada, and all other countries of the copyright union, is subject to a royalty. All rights, including professional, amateur, motion picture, recitation, public reading, radio broadcasting, and the rights of translation into foreign languages, are strictly reserved. In its present form this play is dedicated to the reading public only. All inquiries regarding this play should be addressed to Richard J. Madden Play Company, at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y.

The non-professional acting rights of _Beyond the Horizon_ are controlled exclusively by the Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 6 East 39th Street, New York, N. Y., without whose permission in writing no performance of it may be made.

_Manufactured in the United States of America_

CHARACTERS

JAMES MAYO, _a farmer_
KATE MAYO, _his wife_
CAPTAIN DICK SCOTT, _of the bark_ Sunda, _her brother_
ANDREW MAYO }
ROBERT MAYO } _sons of_ JAMES MAYO
RUTH ATKINS
MRS. ATKINS, _her widowed mother_
MARY
BEN, _a farm hand_
DOCTOR FAWCETT