The dramatist is beset from all sides, now the business manager--that is to say, the box-office--now the stage manager, now the star, now the leading man or woman.

Jealousy's green eyes peer from behind every scene.

The dramatist's ideal, when finally presented to the public, resembles those mutilated marbles that decorate the museums of Rome and Naples.

Only there is this difference: the public can easily imagine what the sculptor was about, but seldom the dramatist.
Warrington was a young man, tolerably good-looking, noticeably well set up.

When they have good features, a cleft chin and a generous nose, clean-shaven men are good to look at.