Excerpt: ...Isn't it indeed the golden era of letters? If only the letters were gold! If there is any such thing remaining as a guild of authors, somewhere on the back seats, witnessing this marvelous Kingdom Come of Literature, there must also be a little bunch of actors, born for the stage, who see with mixed feelings their arena taken possession of by fairer if not more competent players. These players are not to be confounded with the play-actors whom the Puritans denounced, nor with those trained to the profession in ...
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Excerpt: ...Isn't it indeed the golden era of letters? If only the letters were gold! If there is any such thing remaining as a guild of authors, somewhere on the back seats, witnessing this marvelous Kingdom Come of Literature, there must also be a little bunch of actors, born for the stage, who see with mixed feelings their arena taken possession of by fairer if not more competent players. These players are not to be confounded with the play-actors whom the Puritans denounced, nor with those trained to the profession in the French capital. In the United States and in England we are born to enter upon any avocation, thank Heaven! without training for it. We have not in this country any such obstacle to universal success as the Theatre Francais, but Providence has given us, for wise purposes no doubt, Private Theatricals (not always so private as they should be), which domesticate the drama, and supply the stage with some of the most beautiful and best dressed performers the world has ever seen. Whatever they may say of it, it is a gallant and a susceptible age, and all men bow to loveliness, and all women recognize a talent for clothes. We do not say that there is not such a thing as dramatic art, and that there are not persons who need as severe training before they attempt to personate nature in art as the painter must undergo who attempts to transfer its features to his canvas. But the taste of the age must be taken into account. The public does not demand that an actor shall come in at a private door and climb a steep staircase to get to the stage. When a Star from the Private Theatricals descends upon the boards, with the arms of Venus and the throat of Juno, and a wardrobe got out of Paris and through our stingy Custom-house in forty trunks, the plodding actor, who has depended upon art, finds out, what he has been all the time telling us, that all the world's a stage, and men and women merely players. Art is good in its way; but what about a perfect...
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Harry Whitney McVickar and Others. Good. No Dust Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Inscribed & Signed by Author 220 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ title in gilt, and gilt decoration on front cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; owner's name, Francis Wilson, 1892 (Philadelphia actor b. 1854--d. 1935) on front blank endpaper. Bottom corner of title page torn. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER ON VERSO OF FRONTISPIECE. Previous bookseller's small label on rear paste-down. Hinges tender. Collection of essays on a variety of topics. Illust. w/ b/w drawings.
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