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... produced at the Court Theatre . Three months later Mrs Dot was being played at the Comedy and Jack Straw at the Vaudeville . In June Lewis Waller put on at the Lyric a play called The Explorer which I had written immediately after A Man ...
... produced at the Court Theatre . Three months later Mrs Dot was being played at the Comedy and Jack Straw at the Vaudeville . In June Lewis Waller put on at the Lyric a play called The Explorer which I had written immediately after A Man ...
Page 84
... producing certain pieces to which not even the most severe have refused praise . The critics accused me of ... produced Loaves and Fishes . None of them was a failure ; none of them was a success . The managers neither made nor ...
... producing certain pieces to which not even the most severe have refused praise . The critics accused me of ... produced Loaves and Fishes . None of them was a failure ; none of them was a success . The managers neither made nor ...
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... producing an elaborate school of performers , suc- cumbed when musical instruments were invented that produced more beautifully the peculiar effects it sought ; and there is no reason why prose drama should not suffer the same fate . It ...
... producing an elaborate school of performers , suc- cumbed when musical instruments were invented that produced more beautifully the peculiar effects it sought ; and there is no reason why prose drama should not suffer the same fate . It ...
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