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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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Societies have been founded in order to produce plays that people may go to who disdain the commercial theatre . They languish . The intelligentsia cannot be persuaded to patronize these performances , and if they do , want to go ...
Societies have been founded in order to produce plays that people may go to who disdain the commercial theatre . They languish . The intelligentsia cannot be persuaded to patronize these performances , and if they do , want to go ...
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I could not tell whether I was free from the theatre for good and all , for the author is the slave of what , for want of a more modest word , I am forced to call his inspiration , and I could not be certain that a theme would not some ...
I could not tell whether I was free from the theatre for good and all , for the author is the slave of what , for want of a more modest word , I am forced to call his inspiration , and I could not be certain that a theme would not some ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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