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Let the playwright, then, before embarking on a theme, make sure that he has some sort of satisfaction to offer us at the end, if it be only the pessimistic pleasure of realizing some part of "the bitter, old and wrinkled truth" about life. The crimes of destiny there is some profit in contemplating; but its stupid vulgarities minister neither to profit nor delight.
As for Francis, he returned the author's greeting curtly, making it plain that he was in no agreeable temper. "I congratulate you, Phillips," he said. "You and Norma have become famous overnight." The open resentment in his tone angered the playwright and caused him to wonder if their long-deferred clash was destined to occur this morning.
The accomplished playwright may be recognised in the skilful touches with which M. Feuillet, unrivalled, as his regular readers know, in his power of breathing higher notes into the frivolous prattle of fashionable French life, develops the tragic germ in the elegant, youthful household.
And now they met in a crowd to shake hands, and she went her way with one of her grand ladies, and he was left among a group of chattering strangers. The great English playwright took him by the hand and in the hearing of all praised him gracefully and kindly. It did not matter to Philip whether the older playwright believed what he said or not; he knew it was generously meant.
No wonder the American playwright is uneasy. He ought to be. He is the more uneasy because he realizes that the theatre presents a special incitement and a special problem a problem altogether different from that presented by the bookstall, for instance. The play, once produced, is open to all the world.
The playwright who sets forth with the idea that, in writing a poetical drama, he is going to continue the great Elizabethan tradition, is starting on a wild-goose chase. The great Elizabethan tradition is an incubus to be exorcised. It was because Mr.
I did not explain that in my desk lay a four-act drama throbbing with humanity, with life, with which it had been my hope growing each day fainter to take the theatrical public by storm, to establish myself as a serious playwright. "It's very simple," urged Hodgson. "Provide Atherton plenty of comic business; you ought to be able to do that all right.
We may agree that it is often dangerous and sometimes manifestly foolish to keep a secret; but, on the other hand, there is certainly no reason why the playwright should blurt out all his secrets at the first possible opportunity. The true art lies in knowing just how long to keep silent, and just the right time to speak.
He could see no one else in the part; he could think of no one else as he dreamed of the play's success. Moreover, Miss Colgate was as pleased as Punch over this flattering tribute to her magnetism for the part, as described, was one that would not "get over" unless created by an actress of pronounced magnetic appeal and lost no time in falling deeply in love with the manly playwright.
Ludovic was destined for the civil service, and, after finishing his studies, entered successively the Department of State ; the Algerian Department , and later on became editorial secretary of the Corps Legislatif . When his patron, the Duc de Morny, died in 1865, Halevy resigned, giving up a lucrative position for the uncertain profession of a playwright: At this period he devoted himself exclusively to the theatre.
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