Paul LÉAUTAUD (1872-1956). Autograph manuscript at the end of corrected proofs, [1910]; 3pages in-8, including 3/4 page autograph. Maurice Boissard's dramatic chronicle deals with Bouhélier's Carnaval des enfants de Saint-Georges; Léautaud takes the opportunity to speak ill of modern actresses, ugly, skinny, skeletal and bosomless. Then, in this long autograph addition, Léautaud fulminates against the public: "I have often said how little good I think of the public. Not only for their lack of taste, which makes them more interested in silly, wordy plays, and more interested in lowbrow politeness than in works of observation. But also for its lack of intelligence. It happens to me at every moment, at the theater, to see most of the spectators laughing at things that are in no way laughable, which are on the contrary very fine and even hide emotion under their comic spin". And he railed against the audience's ignorance of Lucien Guitry's Tartufe...