I’D LIKE TO DO IT AGAIN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _PLAYS BY MR. DAVIS_ Icebound The Detour The Nervous Wreck and others ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: OWEN DAVIS (Photograph from White Studio) ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I’D LIKE TO DO IT AGAIN by OWEN DAVIS [Illustration] _FARRAR & RINEHART, INCORPORATED_ _ON MURRAY HILL - - - - NEW YORK_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration] COPYRIGHT, 1931, BY OWEN DAVIS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ──────────────── CONTENTS ──────────────── 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ──────────────── LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ──────────────── 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”