I'd Like to Do It Again

It may well be that this thing of producing plays isn’t as wonderful a thing as I think it is but it’s my trade. I have served the theater joyfully for a long time and if a good fairy appeared before me to-day and offered me the famous “one wish” I am sure that I should say “Please good fairy I’d like to do it again.” This doesn’t mean that my life has been all happiness. No man’s has been. Perhaps it is best that way. We have had our griefs my wife and I our share of sorrow discouragement and our happiness but if I may for a moment borrow the flamboyant style of my youth as I look back over the tapestry of my life the bright spots do not seem so bright as I had remembered them and the dark spots do not seem so dark. The whole fabric looks rather like one of these old rag carpets of my mother’s time—woven of bits of crimson and blue of yellow and black—blending now in a soft harmony softened by time. -Excerpt of the Author