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They never ceased to find the theatrical gossip of the day absorbing . They loved the 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 ...
They never ceased to find the theatrical gossip of the day absorbing . They loved the 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 ...
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headed by Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones , could be counted upon to provide the principal theatres with a play whenever ... I think from the fact that George Moore's Strike at Arlingford was done by the Independent Theatre , that my only ...
headed by Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones , could be counted upon to provide the principal theatres with a play whenever ... I think from the fact that George Moore's Strike at Arlingford was done by the Independent Theatre , that my only ...
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theatre was not that directors were sometimes incom petent , but that they were necessary at all . 41 AND NOW THE audience . It must seem ungracious that I should express anything but gratitude to the public that has given me , if not ...
theatre was not that directors were sometimes incom petent , but that they were necessary at all . 41 AND NOW THE audience . It must seem ungracious that I should express anything but gratitude to the public that has given me , if not ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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