Aug. 2
The fact that thirty-four plays failed in London in the first five months of the present year hi naturally set the papers talking At any time there must be failures, but this year has passed all records. The general opinion is, not that the public is more dificult to please than lever it was, but that the thirty-four failed' because they never deserved to succeed. Compl mentary to this is the suggestion that managers could not find fatiything better. London alone needs about two hundred new three-act plays a year, if all its theatres are to be kept in action with an average run of eight weeks for each play. It is a truly appalling thought. Justly may the "Manchester Guardian" write:
'The assumption of the dignant is that there is, available alternative, a' hidden
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