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Having turned to him as a greyhound does a hare I asked him what he thought of the Abbey School of Acting? He at once became enthusiastic. There are, according to him, sixty-five members at least of the new school, all energetic and sincere, but not all geniuses. I suggest that maybe he had forgotten that he was working on virgin clay. He replied yes, but incidentally remarked that there are many kinds of clay, some of which are plastic; there are others which are not. With regard to the Abbey School, he mentioned that he had found that the Irish School had wonderful adaptability. In England there were student actors wanting to know the why and the wherefore of every intonation and of every gesture.
Evening Telegraph (Dublin), 20 January 1912, p. 5. Interviewed by J. P. M.
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Monck, N. (1988). The School of Acting at the Abbey Theatre. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) The Abbey Theatre. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08508-8_27
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