Chapter I: Front Matter

I’D LIKE TO DO IT AGAIN

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_PLAYS BY MR. DAVIS_

Icebound
The Detour
The Nervous Wreck
and others

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OWEN DAVIS
(Photograph from White Studio)
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I’D LIKE
TO DO IT AGAIN

by
OWEN DAVIS

_FARRAR & RINEHART, INCORPORATED_
_ON MURRAY HILL - - - - NEW YORK_

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COPYRIGHT, 1931, BY OWEN DAVIS
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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CONTENTS
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I. FALSE STARTS, 3

II. SELLING THE FIRST ONE, 22

III. THEN AND NOW, 47

IV. “HOLD, VILLAIN!” 77

V. UP FROM MELODRAMA, 108

VI. HOW TO WRITE THREE HUNDRED PLAYS, 146

VII. THE DRAMATIST’S PROFESSION, 171

VIII. HOLLYWOOD, 206

IX. I’D LIKE TO DO IT AGAIN, 231

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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Owen Davis Frontis

When he entered Harvard in 4
1889

“Aside from being a fair 5
football player”

Gus Hill, Champion Club 10
Swinger

Maurice Barrymore 11

Fanny Janauschek as Medea 14

Lawrence Barrett 15

Sally Cohen 20

John C. Rice 21

“O’Neill listened to my 24
reading of the part”

Edwin Booth as Richelieu 25

“I took one of my first plays 30
to the Frohman office”

Harrigan and Hart 31

“The B’s were led by the name 38
of William A. Brady”

“Henry Miller was the greatest 39
teacher”

A. M. Palmer 50

“Augustin Daly was a master” 51

“William Winter was the 60
outstanding critic”

David Belasco 61

Elizabeth Dreyer 90

Laurette Taylor 91

Joseph Jefferson 120

“I have always admired 121
Augustus Thomas”

Robert H. Davis 140

Owen Davis and his two sons 141

Owen Davis, Jr., actor 160

Donald Davis, playwright 161

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I’D LIKE TO DO IT AGAIN

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