unearths some literary gems.
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Actors and audience--they must for a few brief hours change places....The audience steps across the footlights and becomes the actor, throbs to his emotions....The actor must step across the footlights and become the audience, feel his pulse beat, sense his pleasure or disapproval, know his reaction.
And in proportion to the measure with which each becomes the other...the play lives....But if either should fail--and if one fail [sic], it is because the other does--then the play is phantom. A stalking ghost walks the boards.
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