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... manager of Drury Lane ( before Garrick's time ) when The Beggar's Opera was produced and the wits said the production had “ made Gay rich , and Rich gay . ” The modern German playwright Bertolt Brecht and the com- poser Kurt Weill made ...
... manager of Drury Lane ( before Garrick's time ) when The Beggar's Opera was produced and the wits said the production had “ made Gay rich , and Rich gay . ” The modern German playwright Bertolt Brecht and the com- poser Kurt Weill made ...
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... manager's wife . Dunlap took his cue from this experience and afterward was careful to adapt his plays to the personnel of the company . In the course of time Dunlap became manager of the American Company . He continued to operate it ...
... manager's wife . Dunlap took his cue from this experience and afterward was careful to adapt his plays to the personnel of the company . In the course of time Dunlap became manager of the American Company . He continued to operate it ...
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... managers had begun to follow the worst practices of the syndicate . Out of the abuses against actors which this condition created arose the movement for a union of actors . The powerful Actors ' Equity Association was the result . In ...
... managers had begun to follow the worst practices of the syndicate . Out of the abuses against actors which this condition created arose the movement for a union of actors . The powerful Actors ' Equity Association was the result . In ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
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