Word: intelligentsia
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...falls. If it purpose is to amuse, it falls under professor Baker's ban as being judged merely for its business qualifications. But if a play is not judged by its selling capacity, the same danger arises, as with "Little" the atres,--the danger of an appeal to the intelligentsia only and appeal too narrow to be representative. The audience cannot be educated through the medium of better plays alone. They have first to be educated to appreciate the better plays when they see them. Experiments on the professional stage are bound to be costly and often failures...