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... Gerald du Maurier , a very good director , told me himself that he took no interest in directing a play that he could not partly rewrite . This was an extreme case . But it has certainly become very hard to find a director who is ...
... Gerald du Maurier , a very good director , told me himself that he took no interest in directing a play that he could not partly rewrite . This was an extreme case . But it has certainly become very hard to find a director who is ...
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... Gerald du Maurier used often to do this by the mortifying , but efficacious , expedient of caricaturing the manner in which an actor had done something and then showing him how it should be done . He could do this only because he was a ...
... Gerald du Maurier used often to do this by the mortifying , but efficacious , expedient of caricaturing the manner in which an actor had done something and then showing him how it should be done . He could do this only because he was a ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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