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xiv terpretive life which the Theatre Guild has thrown about it in the Garrick Theatre.

Indeed, I cannot adequately express my gratitude to the Theatre Guild. I suppose that I must, however, do something toward acknowledging the debt which the text of the play owes to Miss Lord, to Mr. Bennett, and to Mr. Moeller for some of its most effective lines and episodes. In the old days of the Cohan revues, Mr. Richard Carle used to hold up his right hand when he spoke one of the author’s jokes and his left hand when he spoke one of his own. In honesty, I should have marked the lines and episodes which this amiable trio contributed to my play and supplied each one of them with an accrediting footnote. My failure to do so can only be explained by a greed for more credit than I deserve.

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New York, 1925