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Updated: May 15, 2025
He could not be certain of its identity, but he prided himself upon his keen sight and hearing, and where they failed, instinct stepped in. He was sure that it was the car which had waited for Stephen Knight when the Charles Quex came in, the car of Nevill Caird, about whom he had made inquiries before leaving Algiers.
No, I don't despise Ibsen; and I have found Mr. Pinero's plays good reading." "Oh," the girl said, getting her foot on the ground. "'The Gay Lord Quex'; Miss Vanbrugh was great in that. But now don't get off on the theatre, grandfather, or there will be no end to it. Which of the old, old poets before Burns or Shelley even do you like?"
It may be profitable, therefore, to stand aloof from such discussion for a moment, in order to inquire calmly what it is all about. Although the modern social drama is sometimes comic in its mood The Gay Lord Quex, for instance its main development has been upon the serious side; and it may be criticised most clearly as a modern type of tragedy.
Although the new piece may be discredited, the author's reputation will suffer no abiding injury from the deep damnation of its taking off; for the public will continue to remember the third act of The Gay Lord Quex, and will remain assured that Sir Arthur Pinero is worth while.
And in modern French drama, for all its "logic," the dominating factor is the "scene a faire," what I have called the scene of confrontation. The notoriously successful scene in the English drama of to-day, the duel of Sophy and Lord Quex tolerably empty of real feeling or significance though it is becomes successful merely through the consummate handling of the face-to-face element.
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