The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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Page 103
... theatre in which their play was being acted . They said they did it in order to see that the cast was not getting ... theatre and everything connected with it . They had grease- paint in their bones . I have never been like that ...
... theatre in which their play was being acted . They said they did it in order to see that the cast was not getting ... theatre and everything connected with it . They had grease- paint in their bones . I have never been like that ...
Page 133
... theatre is that if they are acceptable , they are accepted and so kill the play that helped to diffuse them . For noth- ing is so tiresome in the theatre as to be forced to listen to the exposition of ideas that you are willing to take ...
... theatre is that if they are acceptable , they are accepted and so kill the play that helped to diffuse them . For noth- ing is so tiresome in the theatre as to be forced to listen to the exposition of ideas that you are willing to take ...
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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