But though I did go again and again, never did I see them act with the same deliberation and distinction, and I laid the difference to a change in the state of mind of the producer.

Even baseball players must have managers.

A team cannot pick itself, or it surely would.

And this rule may apply to the stage.

But by comparison to motion picture performers, stage-actors are their own managers, for they have an approximate notion of how they look in the eye of the audience, which is but the human eye.