HILL
(with a self-amused grin)
I wonder what the magazine er-um-um critics, as they choose to call themselves, will think of this play?
DIXON
Humph! Magazine critics? Why they’re all young fellows. Impudent, too! They think that just because they’re educated they know more about the game than we do—than I do—and I’ve had my opinions quoted on as many as two hundred garbage cans in one week!
SUMMERS
Ah, dear me, gentlemen. In my time, a critic was a person with a taste for drama; to-day a critic is largely a person with a taste for quotation in the Shubert ads.
FENEMY
(to the others, tapping his temple significantly with his forefinger)
The poor chap actually thinks Molière knew more about playwriting than Jules Eckert Goodman!