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Page 105
... exciting . At last the dress- makers filter through the fireproof door and resume their seats , the representatives of rival firms at a haughty distance from one another , and the stage manager puts his head round the curtain . " All ...
... exciting . At last the dress- makers filter through the fireproof door and resume their seats , the representatives of rival firms at a haughty distance from one another , and the stage manager puts his head round the curtain . " All ...
Page 115
... exciting . I began to think that I should never be able to write a piece that a leading lady liked well enough to insist on playing and so tried my hand at a man's play . I wrote Jack Straw . I had been under the impression that the ...
... exciting . I began to think that I should never be able to write a piece that a leading lady liked well enough to insist on playing and so tried my hand at a man's play . I wrote Jack Straw . I had been under the impression that the ...
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... exciting composers to write for it and producing an elaborate school of performers , succumbed when musical instruments were invented that produced more beautifully the peculiar effects it sought ; and there is no reason why prose drama ...
... exciting composers to write for it and producing an elaborate school of performers , succumbed when musical instruments were invented that produced more beautifully the peculiar effects it sought ; and there is no reason why prose drama ...
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