[Gutenberg 63287] • I'd Like to Do It Again

Excerpt from I'd Like to Do It Again

As a matter of truth, she smiled more frequently than one would expect of the mother of eight children, and her strong and dauntless ambition saw no limits at all to the future of her brood. To those who knew her there is no mystery in the fact that a boy of nine, born in a country town many years before the talking pictures had brought the drama to every hamlet in the world, Should have been born with the trick of creating dramatic narrative and the fierce longing to create it.

Bangor, Maine, in the early 8o's knew little Of the theater. I may have seen uncle tom's cabin, Edwin Booth, Joe Jefferson and possibly one or two others, for in those days New York had no monopoly, our great actors played everywhere - but the theater meant less than nothing to my father and little more to any member of our community.

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