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... producing certain pieces to which not even the most severe have refused praise . The critics accused me of writing ... 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 writing ... produced Loaves and Fishes . None of them was a failure ; none of them was a success . The managers neither made nor ...
Page 95
... produce plays on the current topics , poli tical and social , of the day ? His ideas will be neither more nor less original than ... produced by these societies . They are try 1 ing to do something for which the drama is THE SUMMING UP 95.
... produce plays on the current topics , poli tical and social , of the day ? His ideas will be neither more nor less original than ... produced by these societies . They are try 1 ing to do something for which the drama is THE SUMMING UP 95.
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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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