The Playhouse and the Play: And Other Addresses Concerning the Theatre and Democracy in America |
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... enlightened theatre — an enlightened audience . Speaking of the deep - seated instinct utilized by this institution , President Eliot has lately said : " Here is this tremendous power over chil- dren and over fathers and mothers that ...
... enlightened theatre — an enlightened audience . Speaking of the deep - seated instinct utilized by this institution , President Eliot has lately said : " Here is this tremendous power over chil- dren and over fathers and mothers that ...
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... enlightened public opinion , whereby the American play- house may be established as an institution adapted to guide and lead the American people by the art of the play . Alone , the writer of plays to - day can do little toward such an ...
... enlightened public opinion , whereby the American play- house may be established as an institution adapted to guide and lead the American people by the art of the play . Alone , the writer of plays to - day can do little toward such an ...
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... enlightened few to provide our whole people with modern national Theatres of Dionysus , the Coliseums of the variety shows shall be increasingly provided for them by the unenlightened as- tuteness of private 105 THE DRAMA OF DEMOCRACY.
... enlightened few to provide our whole people with modern national Theatres of Dionysus , the Coliseums of the variety shows shall be increasingly provided for them by the unenlightened as- tuteness of private 105 THE DRAMA OF DEMOCRACY.
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