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 79
... position at the Front Street Theatre . Here things are not altogether pleasant . He is undervalued as to parts and has a wrangle with the manager . He devotes some space to the meanness of managers in general and the moral and artistic ...
... position at the Front Street Theatre . Here things are not altogether pleasant . He is undervalued as to parts and has a wrangle with the manager . He devotes some space to the meanness of managers in general and the moral and artistic ...
Page 142
... position that will yield a steady income ? But where— how ? George is ready to find it . No , he cannot become a plodder , his years of soldiering , acting , and nomad adven- ture have completely unfitted him for that and undermined his ...
... position that will yield a steady income ? But where— how ? George is ready to find it . No , he cannot become a plodder , his years of soldiering , acting , and nomad adven- ture have completely unfitted him for that and undermined his ...
Page 184
... position . When Anna Cora Mowatt re- peated her American triumphs in England , he accompanied her as leading man and on his return , after several years , be- gan his stardom . Yet he never quite reached the position to which his genius ...
... position . When Anna Cora Mowatt re- peated her American triumphs in England , he accompanied her as leading man and on his return , after several years , be- gan his stardom . Yet he never quite reached the position to which his genius ...
Contents
BARNSTORMING IN THE FORTIES | 1 |
THE WARTIME THEATRE | 19 |
THREE SOUTHWESTERN PLAYHOUSES | 28 |
Copyright | |
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