These Things Are Mine: The Autobiography of a Journeyman Playwright

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Aside to the Reader vii
• Acknowledgments xi
• Contents xiii
• Illustrations *
• Chapter I - Overture 1
• Chapter II - Preliminary Canters 17
• Chapter III - Columbia Was "Still in Possession Of Her Faculties" 29
• Chapter IV - I Break into the Theatre With Julia Marlowe 42
• Chapter V - From the Top Gallery It Was Different 53
• Chapter VI - A Toy Tragedy, a Thousand Candles And a Great Lady 67
• Chapter VII - Enter Fola La Follette 83
• Chapter VIII - The Washington Scene 95
• Chapter IX - Two Names on Our Greenwich Village Door 110
• Chapter X - I Go into the Woman Question 120
• Chapter XI - I Lead a Double Life 137

• Title Page iii
• Aside to the Reader vii
• Acknowledgments xi
• Contents xiii
• Illustrations *
• Chapter I - Overture 1
• Chapter II - Preliminary Canters 17
• Chapter III - Columbia Was "Still in Possession Of Her Faculties" 29
• Chapter IV - I Break into the Theatre With Julia Marlowe 42
• Chapter V - From the Top Gallery It Was Different 53
• Chapter VI - A Toy Tragedy, a Thousand Candles And a Great Lady 67
• Chapter VII - Enter Fola La Follette 83
• Chapter VIII - The Washington Scene 95
• Chapter IX - Two Names on Our Greenwich Village Door 110
• Chapter X - I Go into the Woman Question 120
• Chapter XI - I Lead a Double Life 137
• Chapter XII - The Gentle Art Of Collaboration 152
• Cfapter XIII Many Emotions 168
• Chapter XIV From Our Paris Balcony 181
• Chapter XV - I Go to London Town And Bernard Shaw Explains 200
• Chapter XVI - Sir Arthur Pinero: "A Modest Gentleman" 214
• Chapter XVII - Through the Stage Doors Of Paris 224
• Chapter XVIII - Sacha Guitry: the Art And Aches of Adaptation 238
• Chapter XIX - Duse, Bernhardt, And Lucien Guitry 248
• Chapter XX - Intermission: for Change of Scene, Nazimova, and Two Forced Closings 259
• Chapter XXI - David Belasco: the Last of His Line. E. H. Sothern and Ina Claire 273
• Chapter XXII - Family Interlude: A Presidential Campaign 291
• Chapter XXIII - Trouble in Our Market Place 298
• Chapter XXIV - We Collect Autographs And Gird Our Loins 310
• Chapter XXV - The Dramatists' Guild Comes Into Its Own 322
• Chapter XXVI - Forty British Dramatists Join Us 333
• Chapter XXVII - Isadora Duncan Says Farewell 347
• Chapter XXVIII - On to Berlin 353
• Chapter XXIX - The End of the Adventure: Molnar, Schnitzler, Brieux 363
• Chapter XXX - Hollywood: the Stage And Screen Face It Out 374
• Curtain Speech: with Balzac's Assistance 400
• Index 413