GUITRY Sacha (1885-1957).

GUITRY Sacha (1885-1957).
Autograph MANUSCRITS (fragments), [L'Humour]; 47 pages in-4 in pencil or ink.
Drafts for a talk or talks on humor, and humor in the theater.
Brilliant talk full of bon mots, but also a reflection on what humor is: "Ignorant of chemistry, I might have amused you by telling you about it... whereas I'll probably bore you by telling you about humor... because I'm going to talk about it seriously. I'm obliged to talk about it seriously because humor is something I hold dear, infinitely dear. Chemistry, on the other hand, I can do without"... "... If most of the great writers have had a sense and taste for humor, humorists, real humorists, those who have only been humorists, are extremely rare"; and he quotes Alphonse ALLAIS, "the only real French humorist", about whom he shares a few memories...