ABSTRACT
Certainly the modern dramatist who is desirous of achieving something more than mere journalism in drama . . . is in an unhappy plight. The commercial theatre has no use for his work. His only opportunity seems to have been the various societies which, on Sundays or other days, produced plays and relied on their membership for an audience. But these have now waged war on him. They have declared that there is no dramatist but the foreign dramatist. It is an opinion that we disagree profoundly with, although it is doubtless true that their own procedure will cause their assertion to be realised.
