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... audiences are at once quicker - witted and more im- patient than ever before in the history of the theatre . Plays have been written ... audience , and , I suppose one must add now , the director . For the moment [ 126 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... audiences are at once quicker - witted and more im- patient than ever before in the history of the theatre . Plays have been written ... audience , and , I suppose one must add now , the director . For the moment [ 126 ] THE SUMMING UP.
Page 127
... audience . All the best dramatists have written with their eye on it and though they have more often spoken of it with contempt than with good will they have known that they were dependent on it . It is the public that pays , and if it ...
... audience . All the best dramatists have written with their eye on it and though they have more often spoken of it with contempt than with good will they have known that they were dependent on it . It is the public that pays , and if it ...
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... audience is affected by mass suggestion and mass suggestion is excited by emotion . I have hazarded the opinion that if you classified the members of an audience from A to Z , starting , say , with the critic of The Times and ending ...
... audience is affected by mass suggestion and mass suggestion is excited by emotion . I have hazarded the opinion that if you classified the members of an audience from A to Z , starting , say , with the critic of The Times and ending ...
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