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Channing Pollock. The Footlights, Fore and Aft
The Footlights, Fore and Aft
Table of Contents
AN INTRODUCTION
THE THEATER AT A GLANCE
SOME PEOPLE I'VE LIED ABOUT
THE WRITING AND READING OF PLAYS
THE PERSONALITIES OF OUR PLAYWRIGHTS
STAGE STRUCK
ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY
WHAT HAPPENS AT REHEARSALS
THE ART OF "GETTING IT OVER"
SOMETHING ABOUT "FIRST NIGHTS"
IN VAUDEVILLE
WITH THE PEOPLE "IN STOCK"
SITTING IN JUDGMENT WITH THE GODS
THE SMART SET ON THE STAGE
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Channing Pollock
Published by Good Press, 2021
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You know the recipe for cooking a rabbit—"first catch your rabbit." The same recommendation applies in the matter of producing a play. Good plays are the one thing in the world, except money, the demand for which exceeds the supply. Consequently, dramatic works cost a trifle more than "twenty cents a box." Most managers think they cost altogether too much, but there never has been advanced a completely satisfactory reason why an illiterate little comedian should be paid more for appearing in a piece that makes him a success than the author should be paid for providing a piece that all the illiterate little comedians on earth couldn't make a success if the vehicle itself weren't attractive.... Kyrle Bellew in "The Thief" drew $10,000 a week; Kyrle Bellew in "The Scandal" didn't draw $4,000; that's the answer.
If you were a manager and wanted a play by a well-known author you would go to his agent—Elisabeth Marbury or Alice Kauser—and ask
