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Show To Be Broke and to Be Turned Down by His Girl at the Same Time By JAMES L. FORD, in Theatre Magazine. The education of the dramatist should be that of life rather than of books. I cannot conceive of a real dramatist who has not known what it was to be broke and turned down by his girl at the same time. Such an experience is of far greater value than the most exhaustive study of the work of Euripides, though thoughtful consideration of the Greek dramas may be taken by one familiar with the teachings of life as a postgraduate course. It is often said by those who favor dramas of the highest type that there is no reason why play-writing should not be classed with other professions pro-fessions and taught as effectively as are law and medicine. But the practice of law rests on the solid foundation of the Constitution Constitu-tion and that of medicine or surgery on the immutable laws which govern the human body, whereas the writing of dramas has no foundation sav the ever-shifting quicksand of public taste. |
