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...themselves, and I prefer my reputation as philsopher to that as dramatist. I am, as everyone knows, a vegetarian, and a total abstainer from tobacco, alcohol and soap. To these denials I attribute my present vigor at 70. I am now engaged upon a new play, to be called Vegetariana. For a young girl dying of an obscure malady, doctors prescribe beefsteaks; she does not improve. The doctors prescribe Africa, but with all the comforts of civilization, she does hot improve. There the play ends. Asked what I should do with the money of the award, I observed: 'What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 22, 1926 | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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