A BELASCO STORY.
"..'Hero is. a good; theatrical story culled from a New York, paper : •
Mr. David Bclasco, tho famous dramatist, was being congratulated on; tho succoss of his new-, drama. "Writing plays is risky business," said 'Mh- Bclasco. "Past triumphs don't count. He who has written twenty superb pieces is just as likely to bo damned oil his twenty-first' piece ■as any tyro.' : .-; "Thero was olice-a playwright who sat in ; tho front' row at tho first night of a new piec'o of his own'. This picco failed. It ' failed dreadfully.. . ' • V "As the playwright sat, pale and sad, amid ' the hisses, a v oman behind him leaned'forward and said—'Excuso. me, sir. hut: know, ing you to bo the ; author of this play, I took the liberty, at tho, beginning, of* tho performance, of snipping, off a? lock of yoat liair. '"Allow menow to■™trrn , it'to' you.'"— "London Opinion.".
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 9
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148A BELASCO STORY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 9
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