Excerpt from Plays and Players: Leaves From a Critic's Scrapbook

If it becomes known that any production that is made in one of our theaters is sure to be condemned by one of the leading papers in this city, that pro ducer will not bring his production to our theater unless we exclude the dramatic critic of that news paper from the attraction. I have been threatened that unless I get fair commented [3] criticism for a production made in my theaters, that the produc tion will be taken elsewhere.

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