The Seamy Side: A Story of the True Condition of Things TheatricalPercy Ives Publishing Company, 1906 - 312 páginas |
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Página 13
... managers and tell them you want an engagement . You would have to begin with a small part , perhaps play small parts for some time , but if you improved you would soon be a leading woman and in time , perhaps , a star . ” I gasped again ...
... managers and tell them you want an engagement . You would have to begin with a small part , perhaps play small parts for some time , but if you improved you would soon be a leading woman and in time , perhaps , a star . ” I gasped again ...
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... by several severe set backs in attempting to obtain interviews with the better class of managers , that " a road company " engagement was the best I could do as a beginner , but even this was not really second - class , 18 THE SEAMY SIDE .
... by several severe set backs in attempting to obtain interviews with the better class of managers , that " a road company " engagement was the best I could do as a beginner , but even this was not really second - class , 18 THE SEAMY SIDE .
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... manager's table in the center and almost over the foot - lights ! It seemed , just for a moment , like a great , sinister chasm ; for- midable , engulfing ; but the next instant I became accustomed to the half light , and it changed to ...
... manager's table in the center and almost over the foot - lights ! It seemed , just for a moment , like a great , sinister chasm ; for- midable , engulfing ; but the next instant I became accustomed to the half light , and it changed to ...
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... manager's table . I had seen her pictures so much in magazines and dramatic papers that I knew her and I loved her immediately as something far above me . How pretty she was , although to my theatrically uneducated eye a bit over ...
... manager's table . I had seen her pictures so much in magazines and dramatic papers that I knew her and I loved her immediately as something far above me . How pretty she was , although to my theatrically uneducated eye a bit over ...
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... manager of mine , on that day of beginning was equally nice to every one , and I thought the rehearsal the most interesting event of my life so far . And how I drank in every explanation given to the others , watched their movements and ...
... manager of mine , on that day of beginning was equally nice to every one , and I thought the rehearsal the most interesting event of my life so far . And how I drank in every explanation given to the others , watched their movements and ...
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The Seamy Side: A Story of the True Condition of Things Theatrical (Classic ... H. A. Dennison Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 100 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
Página 245 - It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Página 100 - And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Página 32 - ... father ; and for Henderson, — well, pleasantly, as her friend. The fine, lasting romance of their relationship was heightened almost unendurably for Shore by this threefold apprehension of it. He got up yearningly, went over to her, touched her shoulders once with his hands lightly, then put the hands in his pockets and began to pace up and down in front of her, after a habit of his. His lips shook a little, and his brow tightened and relaxed, tightened, relaxed. Once, a keen pain twitched...
Página 57 - I had a letter from her the other day, in which she wrote, " I have three silver forks which you quite ruined.
Página 74 - He had become so much a part of my daily life that I dared not give him up. "And I am ill," I whimpered, "and need someone to love me.