Mr. Walters: It’s not only the bad ones, though, that are accepted?
Witness: No.
Mr. Walters: It must be a bad play that does not get accepted in these days? When a man of genius such as you——
Witness: Please; if you don’t mind.
Judge: It is not in evidence that this man is a genius.
The Foreman: I respectfully submit that it is in evidence that he has written a play.
Judge: Very true.
Mr. Walters: When a man of your ability, of some little ambition, cannot get his play accepted, he sometimes resorts to other means—other than the ordinary means?
Witness: I could not tell you. I have only tried the ordinary.
Mr. Walters: You are a legal gentleman?