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Page 93
... dramatist who is lucky enough to have been born with the faculty of putting things so that they carry across the footlights will also be an original thinker . He would not be a dramatist if his mind did not work in the concrete . He has ...
... dramatist who is lucky enough to have been born with the faculty of putting things so that they carry across the footlights will also be an original thinker . He would not be a dramatist if his mind did not work in the concrete . He has ...
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... dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimili- tude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity because someone tells him he ...
... dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimili- tude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity because someone tells him he ...
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... dramatist who was also a poet . Perhaps the best chance the realistic dramatist has today is to occupy himself with what , till now at all events , the screen has not succeeded very well in presenting - the drama in which the action is ...
... dramatist who was also a poet . Perhaps the best chance the realistic dramatist has today is to occupy himself with what , till now at all events , the screen has not succeeded very well in presenting - the drama in which the action is ...
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