The Drama Addresses

Excerpt from The Drama Addresses
Ladies and Gentlemen,
You will not be surprised that, on this interesting occasion, I have selected as the subject of the few remarks I propose to offer you, "The Stage as it is." The stage - because to my profession I owe it that I am here, and every dictate of taste and of fidelity impels me to honor it; the stage as it is - because it is very cheap and empty honor that is paid to the drama in the abstract, and withheld from the theatre as a working institution in our midst. Fortunately there is less of this than there used to be.
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