'Thursday,28th January,
?Peer Gynt? is good stuff. I hope the Beechcroft Players tackle it some time. Though I suppose it has been done too often. In any case Bensham have done it and Beechcroft must set the pace, not follow the lead.
Read ? ?A chair on the Boulevard? (L. Merrick)'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Sophocles the day after we came -- the
Electra, which has made me plan to read all Greek straight through [...] I found great
consolation during the influenza in the works of Leonard Merrick, a poor unappreciated
second-rate pot-boiling writer of stories about the stage, whom I deduce to be a negro,
mulatto, or quadroon; at any rate he has a grudge against the world, and might have done
much better if he hadn't at the age of 20 married a chorus girl, had by her 15 coffee coloured
brats and lived for the rest of the time in a villa in Brixton, where he ekes out his living by
giving lessons in elocution to the natives'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
