...addressed to the Playgoers' Club on the occasion of my taking the chair at their last meeting, I laid down as an axiom that the stage is only "a frame furnished...I hold that the stage is to a play no more than a picture frame is to a painting; and that the actable value of a play has nothing whatsoever to do with...

...Telegraph: Sir — I have just been sent an article that seems to have appeared in your paper some days ago, in which it is stated that, in the course of some...my taking the chair at their last meeting, I laid down as an axiom that the stage is only "a frame furnished with a set of puppets." Now it is quite...

...Telegraph: Sir — I have just been sent an article that seems to have appeared in your paper some days ago, in which it is stated that, in the course of some...my taking the chair at their last meeting, I laid down as an axiom that the stage is only "a frame furnished with a set of puppets." Now it is quite...

...Telegraph: Sir — I have just been sent an article that seems to have appeared in your paper some days ago, in which it is stated that, in the course of some...my taking the chair at their last meeting, I laid down as an axiom that the stage is only "a frame furnished with a set of puppets." Now it is quite...

...were printed in a newspaper interview under the headline 'The Poet and the Puppets'. His declaration that 'The stage is only a frame furnished with a set of puppets', appeared to belittle the acting profession (Ellmann, p. 349). Before his theatrical success in the...