item: #1 of 19 id: 13277 author: Morris, Clara title: Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting date: None words: 50697 flesch: 78 summary: As I had that play in my _repertoire_ for several years, I naturally came in contact with a great number of little people, and that's just what they generally were, little men and women, with here and there at long intervals a _real_ child. He took off my Japan slippers and smiled at them and said, 'Poor little feet'; he stroked my hands and said, 'Poor little hands'; he lifted up my face and said, 'Poor little wave'; then he look up in air and he say, very troubled-like, 'A few home memories--some small knowledge, all I had, I have given her. keywords: actor; actress; audience; big; child; come; daly; day; eyes; face; girl; god; good; hand; head; home; house; lady; laughter; life; little; look; man; manager; miss; moment; mother; new; night; people; play; room; salvini; scene; semantha; stage; theatre; time; und; way; white; woman; word; work; years cache: 13277.txt plain text: 13277.txt item: #2 of 19 id: 13483 author: Irving, Henry, Sir title: The Drama date: None words: 28981 flesch: 62 summary: It is often supposed that great actors trust to the inspiration of the moment. This is why great actors are sometimes very bad or very good. keywords: acting; actor; art; betterton; character; day; drama; edmund; garrick; good; heart; kean; life; man; men; mind; nature; people; place; play; public; shakespeare; stage; theatre; thought; time; way; work; world; years cache: 13483.txt plain text: 13483.txt item: #3 of 19 id: 13928 author: Symons, Arthur title: Plays, Acting and Music: A Book Of Theory date: None words: 55895 flesch: 66 summary: Well, in the first place, as I have said, they have the odd caprice of preferring Shakespeare to themselves; the odd conviction that fidelity to Shakespeare will give them the best chance of doing great things themselves. Réjane has done greater things in her own way, in her own way she is a greater artist. keywords: acting; action; actor; art; artist; beauty; drama; duse; emotion; english; expression; face; form; good; human; kind; life; like; love; moment; music; nature; new; pachmann; people; play; poetry; prose; scene; sense; shakespeare; soul; sound; stage; theatre; thing; time; tolstoi; verse; voice; wagner; way; woman; words; work; world cache: 13928.txt plain text: 13928.txt item: #4 of 19 id: 18860 author: Winter, William title: Shadows of the Stage date: None words: 75203 flesch: 63 summary: The ideal of Richard that was expressed by this actor did not materially differ from that which has been manifested by great tragic actors from Garrick to Booth. The men who were acting female characters upon the London stage when that institution was revived immediately after the Restoration were Kynaston, James Nokes, Angel, William Betterton, Mosely, and Floid. keywords: acting; action; actor; actress; american; aram; art; beauty; booth; character; charles; comedy; day; days; death; dramatic; edwin; effect; experience; falstaff; father; genius; good; grace; great; heart; henry; human; humour; ideal; irving; jefferson; john; king; lady; life; london; love; man; manner; mary; mind; moment; mrs; nature; new; old; passion; performance; persons; piece; play; portia; power; present; public; richard; scene; shakespeare; sir; soul; spirit; stage; story; theatre; thought; time; voice; way; woman; world; years; york cache: 18860.txt plain text: 18860.txt item: #5 of 19 id: 31648 author: Smith, Evelyn E. title: My Fair Planet date: None words: 5916 flesch: 86 summary: You see, Paul, Ivo said, I am Paul Lambrequin now. Paul opened his mouth; Ivo continued without giving him a chance to speak, No doubt you have often wondered just what I am doing here on Earth? The question had never crossed Paul's mind. keywords: actor; course; ivo; lambrequin; paul; people; play; sirius; theater cache: 31648.txt plain text: 31648.txt item: #6 of 19 id: 33537 author: Morris, Clara title: Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections date: None words: 137536 flesch: 78 summary: Like many other great men--and Mr. Daly was a great man--he often made mountains out of mole-hills, devoting to some trifle an amount of consideration out of all proportion to the thing considered. For the benefit of those who may not be familiar with theatrical terms of procedure, I will state that a company was generally made up of a leading man (heroes, of course), first old man, second old man, heavy man, first comedian, second comedian, juvenile man, walking gentleman, and utility man. keywords: act; actor; actress; audience; away; bit; black; business; chapter; child; clara; company; course; curtain; daly; day; dear; door; dress; ellsler; eyes; face; friend; girl; god; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; lady; laugh; left; life; line; lips; long; look; love; man; manager; mind; miss; moment; morning; morris; mother; mrs; new; night; people; place; play; poor; public; rehearsal; room; saw; scene; season; speech; stage; star; street; tears; tell; theatre; things; think; thought; time; voice; want; way; week; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; york cache: 33537.txt plain text: 33537.txt item: #7 of 19 id: 34814 author: Anonymous title: My Actor-Husband: A true story of American stage life date: None words: 66016 flesch: 84 summary: Say, little woman, you did put it all over me there in Cincinnati, didn't you?... I had seen women, good women, stronger women than myself, break under the strain of neglect and loneliness.... keywords: actor; arms; believe; boy; business; child; company; day; days; doctor; engagement; experience; eyes; face; girl; good; great; hand; hartley; home; house; husband; kind; lady; left; life; look; love; man; manager; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; new; night; play; profession; room; saw; season; set; stage; star; table; things; think; thought; time; voice; way; week; wife; woman; work; york cache: 34814.txt plain text: 34814.txt item: #8 of 19 id: 38610 author: Standish, Burt L. title: Frank Merriwell's New Comedian; Or, The Rise of a Star date: None words: 56313 flesch: 90 summary: So you are Mr. Frank Merriwell? he said. Yesterday afternoon, through the courtesy of Manager Frank Merriwell, an invited audience of at least five hundred persons witnessed the first performance of Mr. Merriwell's revised and rewritten play at the Orpheum Theater, and the verdict of that audience, which represented the highest and most cultured element of Denver society, was that the sprightly, sensational, four-act comedy drama was a success in every way. keywords: actor; bart; burns; company; denver; door; ephraim; eyes; face; fellow; fowler; frank; frank merriwell; gallup; good; hand; havener; head; hodge; look; man; merriwell; merry; money; play; right; room; stage; thing; thought; time; train; way; window; woman; yeou cache: 38610.txt plain text: 38610.txt item: #9 of 19 id: 43935 author: Keese, William L. (William Linn) title: William E. Burton: Actor, Author, and Manager A Sketch of his Career with Recollections of his Performances date: None words: 38367 flesch: 65 summary: And we have no doubt that Mr. Burton is, in the memory of those now living who saw him, and will be to those who shall know him from tradition and dramatic annals, the actor who was so inimitable as _Captain Cuttle_, _ We saw Mr. Burton as _Bob Acres_, in The Rivals; as _Tony Lumpkin_, in She Stoops to Conquer; as _ keywords: 115; acting; actor; appearance; audience; author; brougham; burton; chambers; character; charles; collection; comedian; comedy; company; copy; day; dramatic; edition; folio; gentleman; house; humor; john; lester; life; london; manager; memory; mention; miss; mrs; new; night; note; parts; play; public; scene; shakespeare; sir; stage; street; theatre; time; wallack; work; years; york; young cache: 43935.txt plain text: 43935.txt item: #10 of 19 id: 44064 author: Cibber, Colley title: An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2) Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement date: None words: 125334 flesch: 70 summary: I accepted the Part, and was ready in it before I slept; next Day the Queen was present at the Play, and was receiv'd with a new Prologue from the Author, spoken by Mrs. _Barry_, humbly acknowledging the great Honour done to the Stage, and to his Play in particular: Two Lines of it, which tho' I have not since read, I still remember. There they continued for a Year or two, and then removed to the _Theater Royal_ in _Drury-lane_, where they first made use of Scenes, which had been a little before introduced upon the publick Stage by Sir _William Davenant_ at the _Dukes Old Theater_ in _Lincolns-Inn-fields_, but afterwards very much improved, with the Addition of curious Machines, by Mr. _ keywords: account; acting; actor; actress; applause; audience; author; bellchambers; betterton; booth; character; charles i.; cibber; colley; company; court; day; death; drury; end; english; equal; favour; fields; following; footnote; fortune; good; history; house; humour; i. 1; i. 157; i. 98; i. xlix; i. xxiv; i. xxvi; i. xxviii; i. xxxii; john; judgment; king; lady; lane; late; life; little; london; lord; love; man; manner; master; memoir; men; merit; mrs; nature; note; oldfield; opinion; parts; patent; people; person; place; play; power; publick; queen; right; royal; second; sense; set; shall; share; sir; sort; stage; success; theatre; theatrical; tho; thought; time; voice; way; wilks; william; wit; years; young cache: 44064.txt plain text: 44064.txt item: #11 of 19 id: 44065 author: Cibber, Colley title: An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 2 (of 2) Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement date: None words: 120365 flesch: 68 summary: That his late Collegue, Sir _Thomas Skipwith_, had trusted too much to his Capacity for this sort of Business, and was treated by him accordingly, without ever receiving any Profits from it for several Years: Insomuch that when he found his Interest in such desperate Hands he thought the best thing he could do with it was (as he saw) to give it away. Brett_ being himself conscious that, as the World knew he had paid no Consideration for it, his keeping it might be misconstrued, or not favourably spoken of; or perhaps finding, tho' the Profits were great, they were constantly swallowed up (as has been observ'd) by the previous Satisfaction of old Debts, he grew so tir'd of the Plague and Trouble the whole Affair had given him, and was likely still to engage him in, that in a few Weeks after he withdrew himself from all Concern with the Theatre, and quietly left Sir _Thomas_ to find his better Account in it. keywords: account; acting; actors; audience; author; benefit; betterton; booth; chamberlain; character; charles i.; cibber; colley; collier; comedy; company; court; day; death; dogget; drury; duke; favour; fields; following; footnote; gentleman; good; great; having; house; i. 1; i. 98; i. p.; i. xxiv; i. xxvi; i. xxviii; i. xxxii; inn; interest; john; king; lady; lane; life; little; london; lord; love; man; manner; mentioned; merit; mrs; nature; new; note; occasion; oldfield; opinion; order; parts; patent; play; pope; power; publick; reason; richard; share; sir; stage; steele; success; theatre; theatrical; think; thought; till; time; tragedy; way; wilks; william; years cache: 44065.txt plain text: 44065.txt item: #12 of 19 id: 46341 author: Goodwin, Nat. C. (Nathaniel Carll) title: Nat Goodwin's Book date: None words: 97925 flesch: 76 summary: While planning the scheme that has since made many men millionaires Haverly little dreamed that his rotund employee was also eagerly planning as he unfolded his plans to the others. Many men and women rose from their seats and left the theatre, refusing to remain to hear the incoherent and egotistical remarks of this revolting person. keywords: acting; actor; american; art; author; boston; business; chapter; character; charles; clever; club; come; company; country; day; days; dear; dollars; evening; fact; failure; following; friends; gentleman; george; good; goodwin; great; henry; home; house; illustration; irving; james; jefferson; john; know; lady; left; life; like; little; london; man; manager; maxine; men; miss; money; mrs; nat; new; new york; night; page; people; performance; place; play; player; playing; poor; production; public; read; robson; room; scene; season; stage; star; success; theatre; thorne; thought; time; tour; way; weeks; wife; william; woman; wonder; work; world; years; york; young cache: 46341.txt plain text: 46341.txt item: #13 of 19 id: 47116 author: Doran, Dr. (John) title: "Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 1 of 3) date: None words: 116267 flesch: 66 summary: In 1587,[5] when twenty-three summers lightly sat on Shakspeare's brow, Gosson, the parson of St. Botolph's, discharged the first shot against stage plays which had yet been fired by any one not in absolute authority. The record of that career affords many a lesson and valuable suggestion to young actors, but I have to say a word previously of the Bettertons, before the brothers of that name, Thomas and the less known William, assumed the sock and buskin. keywords: acting; actor; actress; anne; audience; author; barry; betterton; booth; cato; century; character; charles; cibber; comedy; company; congreve; court; davenant; day; days; death; dramatist; drury; dryden; duke; earl; english; fair; father; fields; fine; fortune; french; friend; gentleman; good; great; half; house; husband; inn; james; john; king; ladies; lady; lane; life; like; lincoln; little; london; long; lord; love; man; master; men; mrs; new; night; old; oldfield; opera; original; parts; people; pepys; piece; place; play; players; poet; poor; pope; public; queen; richard; royal; season; second; shakspeare; sir; stage; steele; street; success; theatre; thomas; thought; time; town; tragedy; way; wife; wilks; william; wit; woman; years; young cache: 47116.txt plain text: 47116.txt item: #14 of 19 id: 47117 author: Doran, Dr. (John) title: "Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3) date: None words: 106851 flesch: 68 summary: The lady was admirably trained by him; and when Garrick saw Mrs. Barry play the Irish Widow, in his own farce, after superbly enacting a tragic part, he could not help exclaiming, sincerely as he admired Mrs. Cibber, Pritchard, and Yates--She is the heroine of heroines! She was a woman more sinned against than sinning, and so well respected, that Mr. and Mrs. Garrick visited her and Mr. Sloper at the country house of the latter, at Woodhay; where Ophelia taught her parrot snatches of old tragedy, and exhibited the bird to her laughing friends. keywords: acting; actor; actress; appearance; audience; author; barry; beauty; bellamy; betterton; booth; career; chapter; character; cibber; clive; colley; comedy; company; covent; daughter; day; days; death; drury; dublin; fair; father; fields; foote; garden; garrick; gentleman; george; good; great; half; hamlet; home; house; husband; illustration; irish; john; johnson; kemble; king; lady; lane; life; little; london; lord; love; macklin; man; men; miss; mrs; new; night; oldfield; original; parts; period; piece; played; players; playing; plays; pope; pritchard; public; quin; rich; richard; season; second; shakspeare; sheridan; siddons; sir; stage; street; success; theatre; thought; time; town; tragedy; voice; walpole; way; wife; wilks; woffington; woodward; years; young cache: 47117.txt plain text: 47117.txt item: #15 of 19 id: 47118 author: Doran, Dr. (John) title: "Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3) date: None words: 120303 flesch: 69 summary: In the following year, the success of her Lady Townly transferred her to Drury Lane, where she divided the principal parts with Miss Walpole, Miss P. Hopkins (Mrs. Kemble, subsequently), and Perdita Robinson; and not one of the four was twenty years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Kemble were itinerants when the first child of their marriage was born,--a child who made her _début_ on the London stage long before her father;--the latter playing, and playing very well, the Miller of Mansfield, at the Haymarket, in 1788, for the benefit of the wife of his second son, Stephen. keywords: account; acting; actor; actress; appearance; applause; audience; author; benefit; brother; career; century; chapter; character; charles; comedy; company; cooke; covent; daughter; day; days; death; drury; dublin; duke; edition; edmund; english; family; father; fellow; fine; french; friends; garden; garrick; gentleman; george; great; half; hamlet; hand; head; henderson; henry; home; house; illustration; john; kean; kemble; king; ladies; lady; lane; left; life; london; lord; love; macklin; man; manager; master; men; miss; mother; mrs; new; night; original; parts; people; period; piece; pit; play; playing; poor; present; prince; public; queen; richard; room; royal; scene; season; second; shakspeare; shylock; siddons; sir; son; stage; street; success; theatre; thought; time; tragedy; voice; walpole; way; wife; words; world; years; young cache: 47118.txt plain text: 47118.txt item: #16 of 19 id: 47491 author: Matthews, Stanley R. title: Motor Matt's Red Flyer; or, On the High Gear Motor Stories Thrilling Adventure Motor Fiction No. 6, April 3, 1909 date: None words: 34411 flesch: 92 summary: Is there a boy, therefore, who will not be intensely interested in the adventures of Motor Matt, as he is familiarly called by his comrades? Boys, you have never read anything half so exciting, half so humorous and entertaining as the first story listed for publication in this line, called =Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel=. Its fame is bound to spread like wildfire, causing the biggest demand for the other numbers in this line, that was ever heard of in the history of this class of literature. =Carl Pretzel=, a cheerful and rollicking German lad, who is led by a fortunate accident to hook up with Motor Matt in double harness. keywords: box; boy; brisco; car; carl; chapter; come; dat; der; dis; dot; eliza; fairview; flier; frank; good; hotel; josh; know; legree; little; man; matt; motor matt; o'grady; place; red; right; road; runabout; spangler; ter; time; tom; uncle; vas; way; yez; yous cache: 47491.txt plain text: 47491.txt item: #17 of 19 id: 53225 author: Grossmith, George title: A Society Clown: Reminiscences date: None words: 48339 flesch: 76 summary: The Librarian of a town, who was selling tickets for my entertainment, said: Our Mayor, Mr. Z----, who entertains you here, Mr. Grossmith, has made himself so popular by his liberality that we shall elect him again next year. Mr. Grossmith will now sing '_ keywords: arthur; audience; boy; carte; clown; course; court; day; days; dear; entertainment; evening; father; following; friend; gentleman; george; gilbert; good; grossmith; half; house; john; kind; ladies; lady; letter; london; man; miss; mrs; music; night; occasion; party; people; performance; piano; play; room; sir; sketch; song; stage; street; sullivan; theatre; thought; time; want; way; work; years cache: 53225.txt plain text: 53225.txt item: #18 of 19 id: 7508 author: Moore, George title: A Mummer's Wife date: None words: 146582 flesch: 82 summary: V On leaving Mr. Lennox Kate walked slowly along the streets, recalling every word he had said, feeling his breath upon her cheek and his blue eyes looking into hers more distinctly in recollection than when he had held her in his arms. At last Kate said: 'I don't know what I shall do; I promised the dress by to-morrow morning.' keywords: answer; beaumont; company; conversation; course; day; dear; dick; door; drink; ede; eyes; face; felt; girls; good; half; hand; head; heart; hender; home; hour; house; husband; kate; leave; left; lennox; leslie; life; long; look; love; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; montgomery; morning; mortimer; mother; mrs; night; people; piece; place; ralph; read; room; round; saw; speak; stage; street; tell; theatre; thinking; thought; time; voice; want; way; week; wife; woman; words; work cache: 7508.txt plain text: 7508.txt item: #19 of 19 id: 858 author: Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) title: Stage-Land date: None words: 19395 flesch: 84 summary: The result of a long course of acquaintanceship with stage heroes has been, so far as we are concerned, to create a yearning for a new kind of stage hero. Some folks like to die in bed, but stage people don't. keywords: child; comic; girl; hero; heroine; house; lawyer; life; love; man; people; stage; stage child; thing; time; villain; way; wife cache: 858.txt plain text: 858.txt