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Dedication To Miss Marie Tempest
Dear Marie Tempest:
An author who has spent many months in the perplexing business of constructing and writing a play naturally grows tired of it as soon as, or even before, it is produced. It is a tribute to your delightful performance of Mary Whichello that, though I find a decreasing interest in watching the play, I find an increasing pleasure in watching your performance.
In every play it matters little what the author has conceived and written, if it is not vitalized by the actor. It is only that part of a play, or that part of a character, which is thus vitalized by the acting — it is only this which counts with an audience.
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