DRAMATIST’S ART
It is the great triumph of the dramatist—and a task of almost insuperable difficulty—to achieve three ends at once, says the veteran dramatic critic, Mr Desmond MacCarthy. These three are: to compose an interesting story which shall be perfectly logic-tight and convincing; to manage that story so that it will also suggest ideas stimulating to the intellect and of obvious moral importance; and, lastly, to leave the spectator feeling that he has shared with a mind, much greater than hi? own. the thrill of feeling and thinking down into the very roots of life. And when these three ends are achieved another kind of pleasure is also transmitted to those capable of appreciating what is called form, namely, the constant sense of an exquisite adaptation of means to an end throughout the whole work,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1939, Page 9
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