Before the footlights and behind the scenes: a book about "the show business" in all its branches: from puppet shows to grand operas; from mountebanks to menageries: from learned pigs to lecturers; from burlesque blonds to actors and actresses: with some observations and reflections (original and reflected) on morality and immorality in amusements: thus exhibiting the "show world" as seen from within, through the eyes of the former actress, as well as from without, through the eyes of the present lecturer and author.

Before the footlights and behind the scenes: a book about "the show business" in all its branches: from puppet shows to grand operas; from mountebanks to menageries: from learned pigs to lecturers; from burlesque blonds to actors and actresses: with some observations and reflections (original and reflected) on morality and immorality in amusements: thus exhibiting the "show world" as seen from within, through the eyes of the former actress, as well as from without, through the eyes of the present lecturer and author.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Logan, Olive, 1839-1909
Imprint:Philadelphia, Pa., Cincinnati, Ohio, Middletown, Conn., Parmelee & Co.; San Francisco, Cal., H.H. Bancroft & Co., 1870.
Description:xv, [1], [17]-612 p. illus., plates, ports. 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:History of women. reel 395, no. 2817.
Subject:
Actors -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc.
Actors.
Records and correspondence.
Format: Microform Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1815212
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Notes:Microfilm. New Haven, Conn., Research Publications, 1977. 1 reel. 35 mm. (History of women, Reel 395, no. 2817)

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