The Archive, Vol. 51: October, 1937

Excerpt from The ArchiveNo one seems to know the author of that little aphorism; but it is needle-sharp truth, Embryonic Playwrights, and a shackle from which you will never for the dramatist's workaday life is an endless gamut of rechecks, rebuilds and rewritings of, many times, Often, his entire opus. It is his ghost in the garret — his literary Sword of Damocles....