Of all things . lect plays, onegreat alleviation has resulted. They have drivenup-stage, for the time being, the characters whoexist on tea and repartee in The drawing-roomof Sir Arthur Peavershams town house, GrosvenorSquare. Time : late Autumn. A person in a crook play may have talked under-world patois which no self-respecting criminal wouldhave allowed himself to utter, but he did not siton a divan and evolve abnormal bons mots witheach and every breath. The misguided and mis-informed daughter in the Self and Sex Play mayhave lisped words which only an interne should hear,but she did not o
Of all things . lect plays, onegreat alleviation has resulted. They have drivenup-stage, for the time being, the characters whoexist on tea and repartee in The drawing-roomof Sir Arthur Peavershams town house, GrosvenorSquare. Time : late Autumn. A person in a crook play may have talked under-world patois which no self-respecting criminal wouldhave allowed himself to utter, but he did not siton a divan and evolve abnormal bons mots witheach and every breath. The misguided and mis-informed daughter in the Self and Sex Play mayhave lisped words which only an interne should hear,but she did not offer a succession of brilliant butmeaningless paradoxes as a substitute for realconversation. 150 THE ORTHODOX PARADOX 151 Continuously snappy back-talk is now encoun-tered chiefly in such acts as those of Cooney &Le Blanc, the Eccentric Comedy Dancing even they manage to scrape along without theparadoxes. But there was a time, beginning with the OscarWilde era, when no unprotected thought was ? Snappy back-talk is now encountered chiefly in such acts as Cooney and Le Blanc, the Eccentric Comedy Dancing Team. It might be seized at any moment by an EnglishDuke or a Lady Agatha and strangled to the butlers in the late eighties were wits, andserved epigrams with cucumber sandwiches; anda person entering one of these drawing-rooms andtalking in connected sentences—easily understood 152 OF ALL THINGS! by everybody—each with one subject, predicateand meaning, would have been looked upon as ahigh class moron. One might as well have goneto a dinner at Lady Coventrys without onescollar, as without ones kit of trained late Autumn afternoon in one of these semi-
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