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Title: An actor's notebooks, being some memories, friendships, criticisms and experiences of Frank Archer
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Archer, Frank
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Publisher: London : S. Paul & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Mr. Pearce hasa subject which occupies a field practically inexhaustible in anecdote.The Beggars Opera, in which Lavinia Fenton, as Polly Peachum.captivated all hearts, belongs to the picturesque lime of the .SecondGeorge, its masquerades, its ridottos, its gallantries, its tragedies.The immortal comedies, The School for Scandal and SheStoops to Conquer, with Eliza Farren as the bewitchingly waywardLady Teazle and the fascinating Miss Hardcasile, conjure upmemories of Sheridan and the rollicking, reckless days of old DruryLane management. The music of Arne, Storace, Shield, andBishop, masters of pore English melody, is for ever a.ssociated withthe sweet-voiced and accomplished Kitty Stephens; while inbeautiful and engaging Maria Foote is personified all that is re-fined and sparkling in the Comedy Oueeni of the first thirty yearsof the Nineteenth Century. The book will be illustrated withquite a unique collection of engravings of leading acton andactresses, many of them in character.
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Photo b) Window & Grove. THE AUTHOR. (Frontispiece. AN ACTORS NOTEBOOKS BEING SOME MEMORIES, FRIENDSHIPSCRITICISMS AND EXPERIENCES OF FRANK ARCHER WITH FORTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON STANLEY PAUL & CO 31 ESSEX STREET W.C. PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD., LONDON AND AYLESBURY. PREFACE The author of this volume has not attempted to de-scribe fully his theatrical career, although much of it is in the nature of an autobiography; it is a record rather of a few of the gifted and interesting ^1 people with whom he has had the good fortune to come into contact. Most of it was compiled before the attractive volume of his old friends and managers, Sir Squire and Lady Bancroft, came into his hands. A few of the details necessarily touch on incidents of which they have treated, but it cannot render ^ their pleasant book of less value. ^ Accounts of the Franco-German War and the A Siege of Paris have been given to the world by many graphic and able pens ; but the author, who happeactorsnotebooks00arch

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