The Jewel Merchants; A Comedy in One Act
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By James Branch Cabell 30 Jan, 2019
Excerpt from The Jewel Merchants: A Comedy in One Act And candor compels the admission forthwith that the presence of this anchoritic merit in the wilderness is hardly due to me. When circum stances and the Little Theatre League of Rich mond combi ... Read more
Excerpt from The Jewel Merchants: A Comedy in One Act And candor compels the admission forthwith that the presence of this anchoritic merit in the wilderness is hardly due to me. When circum stances and the Little Theatre League of Rich mond combined to bully me into contriving the dramatization of a short story called Balthazar's Daughter, I docilely converted this tale into a one act play of which you will find hereinafter no sentence. The comedy I wrote is now at one with the lost dramaturgy Of Pollio and of Posidippus, and is even less likely ever to be resurrected for mortal auditors. Less
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James Branch Cabell (April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wils...
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