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Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes: This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
         

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.


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