For Everyman, A Theatre

Extract

I suppose the most beneficial result of your letter is the actual analysis on my part of what it is I am really doing. For many years I have been pulling better designs than the next fellow out of the hats of clients in financial corners. I can boast of never having had a rich client. I live at the top of my class but my work was at the bottom of the theatre world. I thought Izenour's theatres monstrously top-heavy, but had to admit he was more popular with the well-heeled lads and the conformists. Then someone pointed out to me the other day that perhaps I was building more theatres than he. On the other hand, your letter seemed to stigmatize my experimentation in actual “bricks-and-wood” and encourage, rather, flight-free drawings.

Finally I decided to stay with the “bricks-and-wood” and try to bring you around to a realization of what is actually going on in my world.