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Page 103
... theatre and everything connected with it . They had grease- paint in their bones . I have never been like that . I like a theatre best when it is under dust - sheets , the auditorium in dark- ness , and the unset stage , with the flats ...
... theatre and everything connected with it . They had grease- paint in their bones . I have never been like that . I like a theatre best when it is under dust - sheets , the auditorium in dark- ness , and the unset stage , with the flats ...
Page 113
... theatre and if I had written suitable plays I have no doubt that the Stage Society would have performed them . But that seemed to me unsatis- factory . During the rehearsals I had come in con- tact with the people who were interested in ...
... theatre and if I had written suitable plays I have no doubt that the Stage Society would have performed them . But that seemed to me unsatis- factory . During the rehearsals I had come in con- tact with the people who were interested in ...
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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