Later on he worked for the same paper as a drama critic.
The drama critic, he once said, was someone who knew the way but couldn't drive the car.
This is not such an odd place for a drama critic.
He served as drama critic on the paper for over sixty years.
He began writing short stories in 1924 and the following year became drama critic for a Berlin newspaper.
"You, on the other hand, would've done well as a drama critic."
He set up a law practice in Louisville and also worked as a part-time drama critic.
How can a drama critic hope to keep up?
The really big problem is the last scene, about which, once again, the drama critics' code commands silence.
Even better than a drama critic, you'd have made a good baseball coach.