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Show . ; i t !r Virginia Harried declares that the world's out- ! ! put of high-browed playwrights is limited. .She ' Qlafifies their) as follows: ;?! B)nlund--Plnoro, the greatest playwright In t !j ' the world, i ll1 France Victorlen Sardou. i I, Belgium Maeterlinck, j 1 Germany Sudermann and Hauptmann. ! j America Belasco, a master craftsman, n "Our own country," said Miss Harned, "doplor- , St ably lacks authors of merit, and there is an im- '"' 8 ( nienso future for the man or woman who will f 9 I produce dramas, faroes and comedies which shall I 1 even appreciably measure up to the standard of I ft ) those foreign writers whose plnys are so univer-n univer-n v sally preferred by managers and producers of dis- . M crimination." |