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The Story of a Play

The Story of a Play

W. D. Howells, Howells
W. D. Howells
1stworld Library

Hardcover

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1421844974
ISBN13: 9781421844978
Publisher: 1St World Lib Inc
Published: Jun 15 2007
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The young actor who thought he saw his part in Maxwell's play had so far made his way upward on the Pacific Coast that he felt justified in taking the road with a combination of his own. He met the author at a dinner of the Papyrus Club in Boston, where they were introduced with a facile flourish of praise from the journalist who brought them together, as the very men who were looking for each other, and who ought to be able to give the American public a real American drama. The actor, who believed he had an ideal of this drama, professed an immediate interest in the kind of thing Maxwell told him he was trying to do, and asked him to come the next day, if he did not mind its being Sunday, and talk the play over with him. He was at breakfast when Maxwell came, at about the hour people were getting home from church, and he asked the author to join him. But Maxwell had already breakfasted, and he hid his impatience of the actor's politeness as well as he could, and began at the first moment possible: The idea of my play is biblical; we're still a very biblical people. He had thought of the fact in seeing so many worshippers swarming out of the churches.

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