Ibsen And Tolstoi

Blumenthal, the great theater manager of Berlín, was once talking with Tolstoi about Ibsen and said: "I have put a good inany of his plays on the stage, but I can't say that I quite understand theni. Do you understaud thein?" ''Ibsen doesn't understand theni himself," Tolstoi replied. "He just writes them and then sits down and waita. Af ter awhile his expounders and explainers come and teil him what he meant. ' ' -