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...most famous houses have been barely able to exist. A queer and ironical turn of luck enters here. The Teutonic publisher of cultural works in general has long been noted for his courage and self-abnegation. The story of the publisher and Einstein is characteristic. Einstein brought his manuscript, saying that there were a dozen men in the entire world who would be able to understand it. The publisher replied meditatively that he would print the work. The music houses constantly got out editions of composers who had only the smallest vogue, losing money cheerfully in the larger interest...
...shocked, offended or proudly discovers some technical mistake?his injured feelings and his professional criticism must, too, be expressed at long distance. And let him have no fear of going unheeded?such letters are always read?and with painful attention. And then there are the letters, usually accompanied by manuscripts, lengthy manuscripts, from aspirants of from seven years to seventy who want to "break into the writing game." And here let it be said to the credit of most authors of any reputation?such letters very seldom go unanswered. (One of the most prominent women writers of America ever since...
What, indeed! Here is one of the few professions in which, if a man does his best work, he is likely to starve. However, there are compromises to be made. A young novelist brought his manuscript to me last week. He was a boy I had met at a meeting of some down town settlement club. " What am I to do?" he asked. " I'm in the doll business. There's no excitement in that and no one to whom I can talk! " What a gift it is to the world to find the sort of person to whom...
...armed with the deadlier weapon-Dixey's Reminiscences of 40 Tears on the Stage." In the Theatre Guild's revival of The Devil's Disciple, the heroine faints for nine hours. G. B. S. says he meant nine minutes. But the Guild has the manuscript on its side...
...that the audiences were filled with anger against him, that their tumultous applause was ironical. This convinced him that his compositions were bad-that was why the people were aroused against him. He said he was going to rewrite all he had written. He had a large volume of manuscript composition. He hid this away jealously, and worked, rewriting piece after piece, but the rewriting pleased him no more than the original work. During the war he accused himself. He could not fight. He was doing nothing for his country. He tried to make amends by aiding war sufferers...