This is in order to avoid the possible occurrence of a production, say, of two works each in one act, after which exertion a director might consider himself quit of the obligation.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway
"Good, good," answered the director, "but that is the affair of the Cook Agency, not mine."
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Greely and Sverdrup have each spent four years in the very region under discussion, and Lecointe is the Secretary of the International Bureau for Polar Research and also director of the Royal Observatory of Belgium.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook