# I'd Like to Do It Again

Author: Davis, Owen, 1874-1956

Genre: Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63287

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=I%27d+Like+to+Do+It+Again+Davis&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

At the time of my mother’s death some fifteen years ago, we found among her cherished possessions a soiled and tattered old manuscript written in a scrawling school-boy hand, and inscribed in her neat and graceful lettering—“Owen’s first play, when he was just nine years old.” This opus bore the somewhat violent title of DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND OR THE RIVAL DETECTIVES and upon reading it over I was struck by one marked originality—toward the end of the first act only one of the characters remained alive, and as the final curtain fell he committed suicide. I had reached some degree of success long before my mother’s death, and, once or twice, when some friend spoke of one of my plays as “the b...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V ◆ UP FROM MELODRAMA](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/i-d-like-to-do-it-again-63287/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII ◆ THE DRAMATIST’S PROFESSION](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/i-d-like-to-do-it-again-63287/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV ◆ “HOLD, VILLAIN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/i-d-like-to-do-it-again-63287/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III ◆ THEN AND NOW](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/i-d-like-to-do-it-again-63287/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII ◆ HOLLYWOOD](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/i-d-like-to-do-it-again-63287/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II ◆ SELLING THE FIRST ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/i-d-like-to-do-it-again-63287/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Act 2 equal Act 3. I have altered that a little in my own work, and I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/i-d-like-to-do-it-again-63287/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I ◆ FALSE STARTS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/i-d-like-to-do-it-again-63287/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI ◆ HOW TO WRITE THREE HUNDRED PLAYS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/i-d-like-to-do-it-again-63287/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX ◆ I’D LIKE TO DO IT AGAIN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/i-d-like-to-do-it-again-63287/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Act II he threw her off Brooklyn Bridge and in the third he bound her to](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/i-d-like-to-do-it-again-63287/chapters/5/index.md)