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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7057, 19 February 1910, Page 15

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Dramatists in the future will have to do without a plot (observes a, London critic). A plot was all very well fo" the men who lived and wrote in the rt mote ages of Scribe and -Sardou. But a play, according to Shaw, should be only a gallery of characters placed upon a platform like wax figures at a fair. In Lucas Mallet's "The Far Horizon" appears the following:—"A first night on the stage is a jungle, not fair to players, nor audience, nor manager." Which reminds us of a well-known London critic who once wrote:—"The first night of euch a production should be fised for the second week of its run." After the Newcastle (England) Festival, held recently, the Russian conductor, Saponofl, who, by the way, conducts (without a baton, said to a London "Daily Chronicle" man: "I have never lieard' better choral singing in my life, and I consider Dr Coward is the greatest living choir trainer. He is a geni-