Without the Limelight Theatrical Life as It Is (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Without the Limelight: Theatrical Life as It Is There are few things about which the public have so many false impressions as they have about the stage. They see it under circumstances which do not help them to form a correctjudgment; they read about it only from the outsider's point of view. The inner life Of the stage is under stood only by those who are intimately associated with it. The ordinary novel and the ordinary story dealing with theatrical life are, as a rule, more creditable to the imagination Of the writers than to their study of facts. The stage in the full glare of the limelight is open for all the world to see. The stage when the cur tain is down, and the children Of Bohemia who tread it so bravely have become once. 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.