The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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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 ...
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... 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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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas imagination instinct interest invention King's School knew Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold Maugham means mind ness never notion novel novelist one's Painted Veil pattern perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense short stories SOMERSET MAUGHAM sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth V. S. Pritchett verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth