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"premiere'", Abusrdities of conventional [[strikethrough]] ades [[/strikethrough]] acting and singing! - Bad stage setting and ignorance of costumes and customs made the whole splendid drama of Belasco a ridiculous [[?]] Cowboys too funny for anything What a difference with that play acted by Blanche Bates which Celine and myself saw some years ago in New York. - Damned fools call that art and fuss over it just like a lot of pretentious children. Met [[underline]] Lampoels [[/underline]] there who sat a few seats away. He too is one of those ignoramousses who are overpowered with that ill defined conception of "art" and who does not even know what happens or is being thought of in in this world - took [[glance?]] of her at "3 [[scenes?]], same philistines  same easy going slovenlness; [[strikethrough]] then went to bed [[/strikethrough]] same throng of people looking like calves chewing their cud while they are sitting there eating. - What a lively escape for me! Went to bed and slept well.

[[underline]] Tuesday [[/underline]] 19. Up early, took auto and drove around all morning to De Suarte Nobody in gilbert [[Maseland?]] not in. met his daughter about 15 years old and his wife.
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met [[underline]] Effront [[/underline]] talked about one hour with him showed him my samples of bakelite which seem to interest him. He says is very successful with his [[amidare?]] process and cannot produce quick enough. Seems to me his new house is less well equipped than the old. His wife was still in negligee and talked through slanting window. Invited for lunch but preferred to decline Drove to [[underline]] Leepnfaels [[/underline]]  and took lunch with him and his wife. The latter is type of Miss De Schruire but someone bigger and stouter and seems less intelligent. Fine house, fine atelier full of paintings full of technique but meaningless and without soul. Hard to keep conversation with him on account of his seeming unpreparedness.
Evening took supper with [[underline]]Alberia de Sevarte his wife and children [[/underline]] The two latter made good impression seem wide awake and not so cowed doing as most children one meets in Europe. Remained talking till 11.P.M.
March 19. Slept well. Drove down to Solvay Institute. All their fine laboratories empty abandoned
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