The creator of Archy & Mehitabel, Freddy the Rat, Warty Bliggens the Toad, The Old Soak, Hermione and other timeless American treasures
My Heart's Desire
No man is content with just what he is doing. If he is, then he has stopped growing.
I have always been stage struck. I'm too old to begin to act now and too fat, but I want to write plays and to produce them. That's what I want to do and what I've always wanted to do. That's the whole story of my ambition.
I may be able to write plays and I may not. In order to learn more about writing and producing them I was one of a dozen people who put a little money into an organization which has just concluded a season and hopes to open another this Fall.
This organization produced three plays last season--"Blue Peter," Ibsen's "Rosmersholm," and W. S. Gilbert's "Engaged." My sole object in participating in this enterprise was to learn a little more about production.
I am planning to produce my own play, "The Dark Hours," myself independently. It was published in book form last year, and has been selling at an astonishing rate. If I can't write a play I can produce one anyway. I don't know whether or not I'll ever become a great dramatist--but I hope to. That is my definite aim.
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