The Show Business: II. How It Works.

The article presents the author's views on artists. The author states that no artist actually enjoys ideal conditions, and the dramatist is particularly unfortunate in this respect. In the first place, he requires the cooperation of a whole staff of interpretative artists and artisans through whose hands his conception must pass before it can reach an audience. In the second place, the production of any play is tremendously expensive and involves a commercial undertaking larger than that in which any other artist-except the architect-needs to be involved. Hence it is that the drama depends upon "the show business" to an extent infinitely greater than any novel can depend upon "the book business" or any painting upon "the art business."