The Symphony Play: A Play in Four Acts

Excerpt from The Symphony Play: A Play in Four Acts
There was once an author who had an idea. She had not intended to have it. She had not even been thinking; she had been merely sitting in her window, by the Jerusalem cherry-tree, wondering why she wanted to write a one-act play, wondering why everybody wanted to write one-act plays - when there was hardly a manager in America who would look at one, much less put it on the stage.
And yet the author saw that she was going to write the one-act play; and in her mind's eye she saw hundreds of other writers hard at work on one-act plays, and writers not yet born, and writers just entering their teens and sharpening their pencils to begin. It was a pathetic sight, all those wasted plays!...And who that had known the one-act joy and concentration and skill would ever willingly abandon it for loose threes and fours or even the classical fives of Shakespeare's perfect form?
And then suddenly the idea came to her -
She sat and looked at it. She stared at it - a little unbelieving - and she looked thoughtfully at the Jerusalem cherry-tree.
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