First Sentence

"If you had been junketing around Europe during the theatrical season of 1892-93, with that day's equivalent of Theatre Arts magazine or some other continental guide to playgoing in your hand, these are some of the events you might have been led to: the premiere in London of the first play from the pen of Bernard Shaw, Widowers' Houses; the premieres in Paris of Maeterlinck's Pelleas and Melisande and of Oscar Wilde's Salome; the first performances of Ibsen's The Master Builder, of Gerhart Hauptmann's The Weavers, of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, of Hermann Sudermann's Magda, of Arthur Schnitzler's Affairs of Anatol."