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manager, rhetorical questions, and other forms of violence.

But I do not want to insinuate for a moment that the theatrical milieu is a particularly wild, bloodthirsty, or brutal one. But it is rather, so to say, a little touched in the head. Observed from a purely sociological standpoint, the theatre is a complex mass of individuals of the most diverse origin, and the most varied professions. For instance,

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