The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1This book represents Maugham's life and philosophy in his own words. It is autobiographical in nature, though most of the work is concerned with Maugham's unique and fascinating opinions on the theatre, writing, metaphysics and the interesting people he encountered in his long and successful career. |
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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 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 ...
Page 134
... theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious prose play that has survived the generation that gave it birth . A few comedies have haphazardly travelled down a couple of cen- turies or so . They are revived now and then because ...
... theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious prose play that has survived the generation that gave it birth . A few comedies have haphazardly travelled down a couple of cen- turies or so . They are revived now and then because ...
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