LARRY—"I like Professor Whatishisname in Shakespeare. He brings things home to you that you never saw before."
HARRY—"Huh! I've got a laundryman as good as that."
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others.... To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.—Charlotte Cushman.
Two women were leaving the theater after a performance of "The Doll's House."
"Oh, don't you love Ibsen?" asked one, ecstatically. "Doesn't he just take all the hope out of life?"
DRAMATIC CRITICISM
Theodore Dreiser, the novelist, was talking about criticism.