Plays and Poems
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Plays and Poems: By an American Author This is a private edition of a few hundred copies. The author is a Philadelphia journalist. At the age of 22 he wrote "Mistress Nan," a drama which attracted the attention of America´s great emotional actress, Fanny Davenport. Miss Davenport was enthusiastic over the merits of the work, declaring it to be "the drama I have been looking for these ten rears past." As the actress had been producing the plays of Victorien Sardou, the world´s greatest dramatist, this was a rare compliment to the young author on his first attempt at play-writing. Fanny Davenport hastened to secure the play by contract and a date was set in November, 1898, for producing "Mistress Nan" at the Walnut St. Theatre, Philadelphia. In the early fall of that year Fanny Davenport died, and as a result "Mistress Nan" was not produced. Meanwhile "Hadley," a play of a very different character, was written. In some respects it is superior to its predecessor. Marie Burroughs pronounced it "a most interesting play;" and W. N. Lawrence, manager of Daniel Frohman´s Lyceum Theatre, New York City, wrote of it: "If my opinion is worth anything, it is a good play." Both dramas appear in this volume. The poems were written at odd intervals. This book is presented, (1) with the hope of awakening the theatrical world to recognition of the dramatic merit of the plays; (2) to possibly impress the literary world with the fact that all authors do not sit in high places, and (3) to draw a tear or a smile and possibly give a little encouragement, or (at the least) an interesting half hour to some friend perusing these pages. 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.
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