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Page 103
... 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 under dust - sheets , the auditorium in dark- ness , and the unset stage , with the flats ...
... 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 under dust - sheets , the auditorium in dark- ness , and the unset stage , with the flats ...
Page 134
... theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious prose play that has survived the generation that gave it birth . A few comedies have haphazardly travelled down a couple of cen- turies or so . They are revived now and then because ...
... theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious prose play that has survived the generation that gave it birth . A few comedies have haphazardly travelled down a couple of cen- turies or so . They are revived now and then because ...
Page 135
... theatre . They languish . The intelligentsia cannot be persuaded to patronize these perform- ances , and if they do , want to go without paying . There are a number of dramatists who spend their whole careers writing plays which are ...
... theatre . They languish . The intelligentsia cannot be persuaded to patronize these perform- ances , and if they do , want to go without paying . There are a number of dramatists who spend their whole careers writing plays which are ...
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