Alexander Woollcott broadcasts the story of the wife who returned a dog to the Seeing Eye with this note attached: "I am sending t
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
Above all, ignore the audience ....
As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested ... in unskilled labor.... T
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...I have never known a "movement" in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that th
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It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is
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Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, something
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Be reflective ... and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty interests,
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