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There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon, or for an actor who plays Death in the old morality play to be dead.
Robert Edmond Jones
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Robert Edmond Jones
Age: 66 †
Born: 1887
Born: December 12
Died: 1954
Died: November 26
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