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... theatre in which their play was being acted . They said they did it in order to see that the cast was not getting ... theatre and everything connected with it . They had grease- paint in their bones . I have never been like that ...
... theatre in which their play was being acted . They said they did it in order to see that the cast was not getting ... theatre and everything connected with it . They had grease- paint in their bones . I have never been like that ...
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William Somerset Maugham. that George Moore's Strike at Arlingford was done by the Independent Theatre , that my only chance of being acted was by making a reputation for myself as a novelist . So I put the drama aside and set myself to ...
William Somerset Maugham. that George Moore's Strike at Arlingford was done by the Independent Theatre , that my only chance of being acted was by making a reputation for myself as a novelist . So I put the drama aside and set myself to ...
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... 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 ...
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