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Title: The theatre through its stage door
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Belasco, David, 1853-1931 De Foe, Louis Vincent, 1869-1922
Subjects: Theater
Publisher: New York London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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David Belasco at Thirty-twoTaken in 1885. Photo by Falk David Belasco at FortyTaken about 1893. Photo by Sarony
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Robert T. Haines as Kara, Blanche Bates as Yo-San, inThe Darling of the Gods HOLDING THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE theatre of Athens and Rome was similarlyafflicted; I have no doubt that the still moreancient theatre of China and Japan bore itsshare also of the burden laid upon it by therevolutionist, the charlatan, and, by what isstill worse, the misguided enthusiast who hasnot been able to interpret clearly the recordsof the past or to profit by the truths of hisown time. This very human impulse to meddle withthe drama, and to substitute for the acceptedstandards of the theatre fantastic practiceswhich are only fads and whims of the passinghour, has not been restricted to any one of theallied departments of its art. Such standardshave not been hastily formed. They arecreated out of the brilliant and sound tradi-tions which have been bequeathed to the stageby its greatest geniuses who have gone beforeand whose accomplishments have formed thesuccessive steps in its progress. Every departmen

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