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Japan, a record in colour (1901)

Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 36

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ether, so broad and so subtleare her harmonies. We do not realise this, and wesacrifice breadth in the vain endeavour to gain what wepropose to call strength—strength is sharp; but breadthis quiet and full of reserve. None understands thissimple truth so well as the Japanese. It forms the verybasis… … Art and the Drama When you have balanced force you have reachedperfection, and this is of course the true criterion ofdramatic art. But here in the West we must berealistic, and if a manager succeeds in producing uponthe stage an exact representation of a room in BelgraveSquare he is perfectly…

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