THE THEATRE
Good gracious, wait a minute, young man, until you have been informed about our methods of procedure. You are here in the midst of our actors, our authors, our critics and our spectators. Listen attentively and don't even speak.
CRONIAMANTAL
Gentlemen, I thank you for the cordial reception that you give me and I shall profit, I am sure, of all that I hear.
THE ACTOR
My rôles have slowly withered like the roses
But mother, I love my metempsychoses
O seats of proteus and their metamorphoses
AN OLD STAGE MANAGER
Do you remember, Madame! One snowy night of 1832, a lost stranger knocked at the door of a villa situated on the road leading from Chanteboun to Sorrento...
THE CRITIC
Nowadays, for a play to be successful it is important that it should not be signed by its author.