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I have known dramatists who wandered in every night to the theatre in which their play was being acted . They said they did it in order to see that the cast was not getting slack : I suspect it was because they could never hear their ...
I have known dramatists who wandered in every night to the theatre in which their play was being acted . They said they did it in order to see that the cast was not getting slack : I suspect it was because they could never hear their ...
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The disadvantage of ideas in the theatre is that if they are acceptable , they are accepted and so kill the play that helped to diffuse them . For noth- ing is so tiresome in the theatre as to be forced to listen to the exposition of ...
The disadvantage of ideas in the theatre is that if they are acceptable , they are accepted and so kill the play that helped to diffuse them . For noth- ing is so tiresome in the theatre as to be forced to listen to the exposition of ...
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Societies have been founded in order to produce plays that people may go to who disdain the com- mercial theatre . They languish . The intelligentsia cannot be persuaded to patronize these perform- ances , and if they do , want to go ...
Societies have been founded in order to produce plays that people may go to who disdain the com- mercial theatre . They languish . The intelligentsia cannot be persuaded to patronize these perform- ances , and if they do , want to go ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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