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I am speaking of the actors by vocation . They have a natural gift and the desire to use it . It is a profession that requires assiduous labour to achieve proficiency , so that by the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he ...
I am speaking of the actors by vocation . They have a natural gift and the desire to use it . It is a profession that requires assiduous labour to achieve proficiency , so that by the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he ...
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Another pitfall that the actors prepare for the dramatist is one that is not often realized . The system of choosing actors to play themselves makes it very difficult to avoid . An author devises a character , then an actor is chosen ...
Another pitfall that the actors prepare for the dramatist is one that is not often realized . The system of choosing actors to play themselves makes it very difficult to avoid . An author devises a character , then an actor is chosen ...
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own mannerisms ; the actors , dependent on his good word to get parts and on their docility to gain his favour , can but slavishly do as they are told , thus taking all spontaneity from their performance . The best director is the one ...
own mannerisms ; the actors , dependent on his good word to get parts and on their docility to gain his favour , can but slavishly do as they are told , thus taking all spontaneity from their performance . The best director is the one ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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