BEFORE we go into the theatre, my clear Dollie, let me remind you that this little trip is entirely of your own arranging. For myself, I have attended the dress-rehearsals of a few successes, several mediocrities, and my evil genius alone knows how ma...
BEFORE we go into the theatre, my clear Dollie, let me remind you that this little trip is entirely of your own arranging. For myself, I have attended the dress-rehearsals of a few successes, several mediocrities, and my evil genius alone knows how many rank failures. The successes bored me, the mediocrities made me weep, and the rank failures were mainly instrumental in giving me that sorrow- flecked, Christmas-cardy appearance that you profess, in your sweet guile-fulness, to admire so much.