One Man in His Time: The Adventures of H. Watkins, Strolling Player, 1845-1863, from His JournalThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. |
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Page 50
... never allayed . What- ever book he finds he pounces upon with avidity . Despite the obvious showmanship of the Journal , this is an honest and unquenchable desire . He cannot stifle his inferiority complex about his lack of early ...
... never allayed . What- ever book he finds he pounces upon with avidity . Despite the obvious showmanship of the Journal , this is an honest and unquenchable desire . He cannot stifle his inferiority complex about his lack of early ...
Page 174
... never thought to buy such things . Packed up , settled up and took passage on steamer , Telegraph , for Cincinnati . Back at Cincinnati he finds that his Louisville success has wrought a much more respectful attitude on the part of ...
... never thought to buy such things . Packed up , settled up and took passage on steamer , Telegraph , for Cincinnati . Back at Cincinnati he finds that his Louisville success has wrought a much more respectful attitude on the part of ...
Page 248
... never fully recovered . He sleeps now beside this beloved boy in the Actor's Fund lot in Greenwood Cemetery . " But Harry Watkins's activities by no means ceased with the ending of his Journal , they became more intense than ever . The ...
... never fully recovered . He sleeps now beside this beloved boy in the Actor's Fund lot in Greenwood Cemetery . " But Harry Watkins's activities by no means ceased with the ending of his Journal , they became more intense than ever . The ...
Contents
BARNSTORMING IN THE FORTIES | 1 |
THE WARTIME THEATRE | 19 |
THREE SOUTHWESTERN PLAYHOUSES | 28 |
Copyright | |
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