I’D LIKE TO DO IT AGAIN

PLAYS BY MR. DAVIS

Icebound

The Detour

The Nervous Wreck

and others

OWEN DAVIS
(Photograph from White Studio)

I’D LIKE

TO DO IT AGAIN

OWEN DAVIS

FARRAR & RINEHART, INCORPORATED

ON MURRAY HILL - - - - NEW YORK

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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I. FALSE STARTS, 3

II. SELLING THE FIRST ONE, 22

III. THEN AND NOW, 47

IV. “HOLD, VILLAIN!” 77

V. UP FROM MELODRAMA, 108

VI. HOW TO WRITE THREE HUNDRED PLAYS, 146

VII. THE DRAMATIST’S PROFESSION, 171

VIII. HOLLYWOOD, 206

IX. I’D LIKE TO DO IT AGAIN, 231

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Owen Davis

When he entered Harvard in 1889

“Aside from being a fair football player”

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