Society and Babe Robinson, or the Streets of Old San Francisco
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Mighels, Ella Sterling) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Society and Babe Robinson, or the Streets of Old San Francisco: A Play This play of "Society and Babe Robinson or the Streets of old San Francisco," by Ella Sterling Mighels, a daughter of the Golden West, will appeal to all classes, the rich and the poor alike, at home and abroad. And in book form it will make a unique addition to collections of "California." The first and the second acts of the play were written as a short story, and it was read in public at an entertainment given for the benefit of the "San Francisco Girls´ Union," the first non-sectarian attempt made for the helping of working-girls in our city. This was given at Irving Hall on Post street, near Kearny, on Tuesday evening, June 9th, 1885. The author was applauded to the echo. Not only that, she was also urged to turn her chapters into a serial for the "San Franciscan," but that weekly journal had passed away before the tale was completed. Always she met someone on the street who stopped to ask about "poor little Babe Robinson," as if the child were a living, breathing human entity. Wherever she went, Babe Robinson walked by her side, entreating companionship. And so grew the complex situation copied from the life of the city of that day, interwoven with the types familiar to our streets. Each one of these types is modeled from a real human being of that time. The story from which this play has been dramatized was written under the influence of the undying melodramas of that period, "The Two Orphans," "The Lights of London," "The Shadows of a Great City" and "Romany Rye." For the sensational tale of "Society and Babe Robinson" has the streets of old San Francisco for a back ground, as the others have Paris, London and New York for theirs. Thus it is that that old time has been thus preserved for those of future generations, to reveal to them what is lost now and gone forever, as if it were a happening of only yesterday. The two lines used on the cover to express the spirit of the drama were written by a poet of the early days who died in the mines of mountain-fever, while still a youth. The other lines used elsewhere were written by the author of the play. Owing to the romantic life-story of the author of this original drama, without which as a background, doubtless "Society and Babe Robinson" would never have come into being, it has seemed only a natural thing that it should be told here in the form of a biographical sketch. 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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