Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes: A Book about "The Show Business" in all Its Branches ... Actors and Actresses ... 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.
- Singerman ID
- supp1836
- Year
- 1870
- Entry
- Logan, Olive. Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes: A Book about "The Show Business" in all Its Branches ... Actors and Actresses ... 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. Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Middletown, Conn.: Parmelee & Co.; San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft, 1870 [c1869]. 612 p.
- Author/Editor
- Logan, Olive
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA
- Holdings
- In most academic libraries
- Title
- Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes: A Book about "The Show Business" in all Its Branches ... Actors and Actresses ... 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.
- Language
- English
- Printer/Publisher
- Parmelee & Co.
- Notes
- Logan’s anecdote-filled book contains material about Rachel, the famous French actress, on pp. 140, 559-60 ("... we knew that Rachel was, without a rival, the greatest living actress," p. 140). For Jacques Offenbach, the French composer, see pp. 553-55. A perfect copy has a frontispiece of the author.
- Collection
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Chronological File, 1676 to 1900
Logan, Olive, “Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes: A Book about "The Show Business" in all Its Branches ... Actors and Actresses ... 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.”, Judaica Americana II, accessed September 16, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/singerman/item/52788