Contents

Introduction How to Use This Book

Acting Actors Actors – Individuals Adaptations Advice Amateurs Ambition Artistic Integrity Peggy Ashcroft Audiences Audience Asides Auditions Avant-Garde Bad Habits Tallulah Bankhead J. M. Barrie The Barrymores Beaumont and Fletcher Beginnings Sarah Bernhardt Billing Broadway Mrs Patrick Campbell Censorship

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Charity Galas Chekhov Child Actors Clubs Comedy Costume and Make-up Noël Coward Critical Abuse – Actors Critical Abuse – Plays Criticism Critics Critics – Personalities Dedication Directors Directors – Individuals Dressing Room Talk Eleonora Duse Epilogues Epitaphs Epitaphs – Individuals Failure Fame Fans Film and Television Finance First Nights David Garrick

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