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Page 103
... theatre and everything connected with it . They had greasepaint in their bones . I have never been like that . I like a theatre best when it is under dust - sheets , the auditorium in darkness , and the unset stage , with the flats ...
... theatre and everything connected with it . They had greasepaint in their bones . I have never been like that . I like a theatre best when it is under dust - sheets , the auditorium in darkness , and the unset stage , with the flats ...
Page 133
... 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 ideas that you are willing to take ...
... 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 ideas that you are willing to take ...
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... 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 day occur to me that I could not but write in ...
... 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 day occur to me that I could not but write in ...
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