Download or read book Scenes From the Life of an Actor Classic Reprint written by George Handel Hill and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scenes From the Life of an Actor Is it true, that the title of a Book is one attractive point to the reader in search of novelty? If so, there is much in a name. The reputation of an author, doubtless, adds to the promise given in the chosen title, and if the expected work be the biography of a person eminent during his life, popular from the possession of talents, exerted in pleasing or astonishing such of his fellow-beings as came within his sphere of action, then public attention may be reasonably expected to be excited at its advent, and its mission for good or ill established by critics competent to judge. Men of different political views, persons whose religious creeds are at variance, naturally enough would differ when a proposition was offered for consideration by one of their number, although the professed object was given out as one of general good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Nine Years of an Actor s Life Classic Reprint written by Robert Dyer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nine Years of an Actor's Life There are circumstances, in my Early Days, which led perhaps to the Nine Years of an Actor's Life, and I therefore trust I shall be excused, and endured, if I introduce them as a Prologue to the right merry Comedy of my thespian career; for this advantage may be derived from the detail - it will show how, from a school recitation, I was led on, step by step, until at last I became a (mama man and I hope the aspiring young hero will be warned by my experience, to hold fast by whatever occupation he may be engaged in, rather than venture on a theatrical life, in which honesty is a starving quality, and virtue a thing of no repute. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Recollections of an Actor Classic Reprint written by Walter Donaldson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of an Actor When a man has long passed the scriptural confines of life, - the emphatic three-score-and-ten, - he may be ac quitted of all vanity of authorship, all idea of frivolous display, in throwing his production on the waters of public Opinion; and hope behind the aegis of seventy-six winters to obtain the indulgence of the reader, while he escapes the censure of the critic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Scenes From the Life of an Actor written by George Handel Hill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scenes From the Life of an Actor: Compiled From the Journals, Letters, and Memoranda of the Late Yankee Hill, With Original Illustration Men of different political views, persons whose religious creeds are at variance, naturally enough would differ when a proposition was offered for con sideration by one of their number, although the pro fessed object was given out as one of general good. But there are subj ects upon which men of different political or religious creeds may agree, and, perhaps, the question, What purpose is served by the preserva tion of the records of the life of a comedian, might. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Life of an Actor Classic Reprint written by Pierce Egan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of an Actor Dear Sir, Disinterested friendship is my motto upon the present occasion; flattery is out of the question, and talent my only object in view. Dedications, too often, are little else but inflated pieces of adulation of the persons to whom they are addressed. I have no necessity to adopt such a line of conduct, my course is clear; the voice of the public, from one end of the kingdom to the other, has long since decided upon your merits as a performer of unrivalled eminence; therefore any addition of mine on that head would be out of place, if not superfluous. With more freedom than politeness, sir (ceremony is not my forte), the Life of an Actor, with all its faults, is presented to your notice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book My Actor Husband written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Actor-Husband: A True Story of American Stage Life It has been said that art bears no relation to morals: as well might it be declared that the blood bears no relation to health. Art must forever be imbued with the spirit of its delinea tor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Twenty Six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager Vol 1 of 2 written by Francis Courtney Wemyss and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager, Vol. 1 of 2: Interspersed With Sketches, Anecdotes, and Opinions of the Professional Merits of the Most Celebrated Actors and Actresses of Our Day Having been frequently asked to commit to paper the varied scenes of an actors life, in which I have been engaged, I have commenced, partly from recollection, and partly from memoranda made at various periods, the present journal, under the title of the Life of an Actor and Manager, in the course of which I may have occasion to mention the names of nearly all the European Actors who have appeared upon the American stage during the last twenty years. If any amusement may be derived from such a source, reader, it is at your service; but should the frequent occurrence of the personal pronoun I, disgust you, lay down the book. If you will travel through it - spare its faults - under the assurance of its veracity. Wherever a change of opinion has taken place it is faithfully chronicled, without reference to the first impression, which remains as it first struck the author, thus endeavoring to do full justice to my professional brethren. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Theatrical Biography Or the Life of an Actor and Manager written by Francis Courtney Wemyss and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Theatrical Biography, or the Life of an Actor and Manager: Interspersed With Sketches, Anecdotes, and Opinions of the Professional Merits of the Most Celebrated Actors and Actresses of Our DayThe first bias my mind received towards the stage was thus early given in acting the part of Lady Randolph, in the tra gedy of Douglas, at the house of a schoolfellow named Miller, in which I elicited much undesemed approbation. Private Theatricals are, at the best, ludicrous, and have a dangerous tendency on any young mind imbued with romance. Although I had not at this time the most distant idea of the possibility bf ever becoming an actor, the applause I received on this occasion acted on my imagination at a later period in life, and kindled a flame which nothing could extinguish.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Twenty Six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager Vol 2 of 2 written by Francis Courtney Wemyss and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager, Vol. 2 of 2: Interspersed With Sketches, Anecdotes, and Opinions of the Professional Merits of the Most Celebrated Actors and Actresses of Our Day J. P. Wilkinson - Journey to the West - Beautiful Scenery - Fine Situation of Pittsburgh - Dramatic Festival - Opening of the Pittsburgh Theatre - Tyrone power-booth - General Houston. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Famous Actors and Their Homes Classic Reprint written by Gustav Kobbé and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Famous Actors and Their Homes Drew is what is known as a society actor and his personal knowledge of society and its ways has aided him greatly in acting and 'dressing society roles. Just as women look up to certain actresses as models in the art of costuming themselves, and copy or try to copy them in their own attire, so to a host of men Drew is a glass of fashion and a mould of form, though men do not set so much store by these things as women. However, a conversation I overheard between two swell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Work and the Man Classic Reprint written by Agnes Rush Burr and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Work and the Man (Classic Reprint) by Agnes Rush Burr offers a thought-provoking examination of the relationship between labor and character. This thought-provoking book argues that the work a person does can shape their character, and conversely, the character can influence their work. Through insightful commentary and vivid illustrations, Burr creates a compelling discourse on the importance of work in personal development. The Work and the Man is a timeless book that will inspire and challenge you to reflect on your own work and its impact on your character. Delve into the intriguing relationship between work and character with The Work and the Man by Agnes Rush Burr. Discover the profound insights within this classic reprint today!
Download or read book Scenes of Clerical Life Classic Reprint written by George Eliot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 1900 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scenes of Clerical Life Litany, only to feel with more intensity my burst into the conspicuousness of public life when I was made to stand up on the seat during the psalms or the singing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Illusion of the First Time in Acting Classic Reprint written by William Gillette and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Illusion of the First Time in Acting But is he a bad actor merely because he adopts his own methods and knows nothing about the art of other people? Well, I think perhaps he is. Altho he amuses me, I'm afraid he is a bad actor. But he is not as bad as he would be if that other type, who really knows the rules, took him in hand and tried to make him a good actor. Then he would be atrocious. As a matter of fact, he is an actor who can play only one kind of part. But he plays that better than any good actor living. Therefore the public, for whom the theater is run, gets the advantage. His reign lasts just as long as there are plays which require that type. If his part is a prominent one and he makes a very great success, so much the worse for him. He isthen placed in an exalted position from which he is bound to fall when the authors have worn themselves out in their frantic endeavor to hold him there; and he will automatically pass from the public ken, des tined merely to bob up now and then in a small part that lends itself to his personal ity - and destined to become a disappointed man for the rest of his life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Life and Times of the Excellent and Renowned Actor Thomas Betterton Classic Reprint written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Times of the Excellent and Renowned Actor Thomas Betterton No Life, properly so called, of that great actor, Thomas Betterton, has yet been printed. In 1710 was published a small book by one Gildon, called a "Life of Betterton"; - it is admitted however, by all who have seen it, that it was nothing of the kind, but a sort of "Rhapsody," and rambling reflections and supposed conversations with Mr. Betterton, upon plays, players, and playing. In 1741 was published, by the bookseller Curll, a small work entitled "The History of the English Stage," (sent out as written by Betterton himself), similar in size to the above, and not only as deficient in biographical material, but absurd and impossible in some of the few particulars attempted of such a nature. With the exception of some odd magazine articles, culled chiefly from the foregoing, and repeating their mistakes, a chapter now and then in volumes devoting sundry pages to each of a number of actors, and carefully refraining from anything in the way of tracing cut the details of a life, and occasional notices in accounts of old Plays, nothing more is shewn in Dramatic Bibliography, or has been discovered after a long and laborious search in the catalogue of the library of the British Museum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Fifty Years of an Actor s Life Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by John Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifty Years of an Actor's Life, Vol. 1 of 2 Fifty Years of an Actor's Life was written by John Coleman in 1904. This is a 368 page book, containing 97496 words and 12 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Charles Macklin written by William Worthen Appleton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Charles Macklin: An Actor's Life The four biographies of Macklin are long since out of print. The earliest, by Congreve, is generally accurate but sketchy in the extreme. The subsequent accounts by Kirk man and Cooke, though essential to our knowledge of the man, are at times erratic and untrustworthy. The last, by Parry, though more reliable, is essentially a pastiche of the preceding ones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Rachel written by Francis Gribble and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rachel: Her Stage Life and Her Real Life Theatrical biographies, in England at all events, are usually written either by actors and actresses or by their stage-struck admirers. The impression which they convey (whether accidentally or by design) is not so much that all the world is a stage as that the stage is the only part of the world which is of much importance. The picture drawn is apt to lack pro portion, and to be a picture, as it were, of the theatre surrounded by other things, and of actors and actresses surrounded. By other people. In the case of the majority of actors and actresses it is, perhaps, necessary to stand at the point of View from which the picture assumes that shape in order to persuade oneself that it is worth while to write their lives. Examples illustrative of the truth of the remark will occur to every one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
