“...So, what is a booth and what is education? We have the courage to think that every serious writer is obliged to speak extremely carefully about the “booth,” taking the word in its general sense. The booth has such a long, honorable and noble history that any theater department can envy, no matter how it amazes with the most luxurious buildings and an unimaginably expensive administration. There is no need to remind that Moliere drew from the booth not only his caustic gaiety, but also many of the faces he immortalized on stage, just as there is no need to talk about the close kinship that exists between the booth and Shakespeare. In general, woe to that theater that did not come out of a booth: it was deprived of the best diploma for an honorable existence...”