In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

The drama is a great revealer of life.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.