“Awful ones for the boys”

Valentine Rich (“of New York”) and Nellie Forrester of the Salterton Little Theatre are discussing the casting of parts for the Little Theatre’s production of The Tempest.

Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost (1951).

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[“Darling,” the narrator tells us earlier, is ““Little Theatre lingo, copied from the professional theatre.”]