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Page 127
For the moment I will consider the 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 .
For the moment I will consider the 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 .
Page 131
But an 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 ...
But an 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 ...
Page 153
I found myself , notwithstanding , growing more and more impatient with that section of it that makes up the theatrical audience . I have mentioned the fact that from the first I felt a singular embarrassment at witnessing one of my own ...
I found myself , notwithstanding , growing more and more impatient with that section of it that makes up the theatrical audience . I have mentioned the fact that from the first I felt a singular embarrassment at witnessing one of my own ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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