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Mary Powell Burrill

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1919

They That Sit in the Darkness

1919

The theatre, when it is potent enough to deserve its ancestry, is always dangerous; that is why its instinctively feared by people who do not want change, but only preservation of the status quo.

-Hallie Flanigan