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Drama - what literature does at night.

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George Jean Nathan
Age: 76 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 14
Died: 1958
Died: April 8
Critic
Film Critic
Journalist
Writer
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Drama
Literature
Night
Doe
Theatre

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Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
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The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.
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The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.
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