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However, during her senior year at Radcliffe,
Lloyd Richards lectured on the drama.
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The following year
Karen became Mrs Lloyd Richards.
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There are, in general,
two types of theatrical producers.
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One has a great many wealthy friends
who will risk a tax-deductible loss.
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This type is interested in art.
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The other is one to whom each production
means potential ruin or fortune.
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This type is out to make a buck.
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Meet Max Fabian.
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He is the producer of the play which has won
for Eve Harrington the Sarah Siddons Award.
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Margo Channing is a star of the theatre.
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She made her first stage appearance at
the age of four in Midsummer Night's Dream.
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She played a fairy and entered,
quite unexpectedly, stark naked.
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She has been a star ever since.
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Margo is a great star. A true star.
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She never was or will be
anything less or anything else.
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Having covered in tedious detail not only
the history of the Sarah Siddons Society,
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but also the history of acting since
Thespis first stepped out of the chorus line,
:04:14
our distinguished chairman has finally
arrived at our reason for being here.
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I have been proud and privileged
to have spent my life in the theatre,
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a poor player that struts
and frets his hour upon the stage,
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and I've been honoured to be, for 40 years,
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chief prompter of the Sarah Siddons Society.
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39 times have I placed in deserving hands
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this highest honour the theatre knows.
:04:46
Surely no actor is older than I.
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I've earned my place - out of the sun.
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And never before has this award gone to
anyone younger than its recipient tonight.
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How fitting that it should
pass from my hands to hers.