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Excerpt from Nowadays: A Contemporaneous Comedy
There are obvious reasons why many plays are refused production, or fail to find ideal interpretation upon the stage for which every play should primarily be written. The demands and caprices, too, of our over-stimulated theater are such that financial success is not necessarily the indication of a play's merit, nor does financial failure, which may be likewise due to a variety of causes, imply that a play is unworthy. But the printed page, whether a play succeeds or fails, affords the dramatist some record of his endeavor. Through publication he renders his work accessible to those who may not have had the Opportunity of seeing it produced: through publication he makes his bold or futile bid for consideration in the dramatic literature of his time.
As in Embers and Tradition, from several plays of which I have drawn the inspiration and suggestion of certain ideas and scenes, I have sought in Nowadays to re¿ect some spirit of the moment as expressed in the shifting standards of man and woman in relation to each other.
My personal word to the reader would not be complete without a tribute to my wife, whose free spirit has gone into the making of this play. G. M.
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