The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot", Volumes 1-3Richard Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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... entered the room in the midst of their disappoint- ments on the one hand , and their ecstacies on the other , they would have thrown all the looking - glasses in it at my head . It is really distressing , if you come to think it over ...
... entered the room in the midst of their disappoint- ments on the one hand , and their ecstacies on the other , they would have thrown all the looking - glasses in it at my head . It is really distressing , if you come to think it over ...
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... entered upon the task of recording them ; but " When F - ' s read , and C —- ' s understood , " I can't help putting in my claim to praise . " So vast a quantity of nonsense has been published on the duties of a manager , their ...
... entered upon the task of recording them ; but " When F - ' s read , and C —- ' s understood , " I can't help putting in my claim to praise . " So vast a quantity of nonsense has been published on the duties of a manager , their ...
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... one evening when , on entering the green - room , he was accosted in the most supercilious manner by a performer dressed for the character of Rob Roy ( a 20 MR . ELLISTON . part the histrio deemed derogatory MR . ELLISTON . 19.
... one evening when , on entering the green - room , he was accosted in the most supercilious manner by a performer dressed for the character of Rob Roy ( a 20 MR . ELLISTON . part the histrio deemed derogatory MR . ELLISTON . 19.
Page 71
... entering upon the privacy of life , whereon , with such abundant information , one might be more voluble than agreeable . In the sweeping censure I have thought proper to pass upon A BODY which , from an experience of nearly five - and ...
... entering upon the privacy of life , whereon , with such abundant information , one might be more voluble than agreeable . In the sweeping censure I have thought proper to pass upon A BODY which , from an experience of nearly five - and ...
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... entered into the conflict . The first grand point for a manager's consideration is THE PUBLIC : the necessity of endeavouring to please , and the equally great necessity of contriving not to offend them , particularly as there are so ...
... entered into the conflict . The first grand point for a manager's consideration is THE PUBLIC : the necessity of endeavouring to please , and the equally great necessity of contriving not to offend them , particularly as there are so ...
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