Word: stageland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meanwhile the inhabitants of stageland go their exciting ways, tangling up their affairs most marvelously. They commit their crimes without regard for the law. They do their dying with never a thought of asking if there is a doctor in the house. And you sit by, indelicately observant, with never a qualm of conscience at having stripped them of all reticence, peeped through an imaginary keyhole at their utmost intimacies...
Soap is in disfavor on the New York stage. In two plays now current-You and I and The Comedian-characters acknowledge for purposes of comedy that they are manufacturers of that substance. Soapmaking is in stageland the acme of the prosaic...
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