Read it through once

“Yesterday we went to the play. Emery’s acting was delightful. The ‘gods’ were so vociferous for the second act of _The Critic_ that the performers were obliged to cut off some of the exquisite dialogue in the first. What a delightful thing it would be to have a playhouse without galleries! These very people, who curtailed some of the finest writing in the English language, encored five stupid songs!”