258 ON THE STAGE. the Government to train pupils, who are elected to the school, for the stage. I was interested, and saw the inefficiency of the system clearly ; it was teaching conventionalism —it was perpetuating the mannerism of the French stage, which is all mannerism. Genius would be cramped,…
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