The Lie - nouveau livre

Excerpt from The Lie: A Play in Four Acts

In asking you to accept the dedication of The Lie, I abdicate my authorship for the moment, and become one of the audience whom you move every night to such tumultuous response to your splendidly sustained out bursts of emotion. And in printing the play I give those who witness your acting the chance of reading my words, and comparing them with your impassioned utterance. They will then be able to judge how deeply indebted I am to you for your rendering of Elinor Shale. In speak ing of your performance I am justified in calling up memories of the great acting of the past. A New York paper, after seeing you in The Lie, has called you The American Sarah Bernhardt. Let me suggest that when these troublous times have gone by and France again resumes her sway in the drama - let me suggest that the rising French actress be called The French Margaret Illington.

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