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Evening Star, Issue 20361, 18 December 1929, Page 15

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The talk had turned on the subject of theatrical fust nights, and speeches at the fall of the curtain. “ I have had four plays produced,” a playwright exclaimed, “and when I say authors should not make speeches, I know what lam talking about. But if you must speak, let your speech be as short as possible. I only once made a speech during those four unforgettable occasions, and it contained four words only.” “What were they?” he was asked. “And boo to you,” he implied.; One of our younger novelists is engaged as a master in English' at a school in an industrial area. Recently, a correspondent informs the London' ‘Morning Post,’ an employer^was’interviewing a boy who bad just left school. “Let me see,” said he. “Mr X , the writer, is a master at your old school, is he not?” “ Yessir,” cam* the ready response: “ that’s hini what learned.me English.” This story is told by the novelist himself,.