Charles Townsend
Published: 2017-05-18
Total Pages: 110
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Excerpt from Amateur Theatricals: A Practical Guide for Amateur Actors Another serious fault which frequently puts a damper on an entertainment, is the inexcusable error Of putting Off certain lines of stage business until the night of the performance. If a man in command of an ocean steamer should declare that it would be. Time enough to learn navigation after he got Out of sight of land, people would call him a lunatic; yet amateurs act in a similar way when they go through rehearsal after rehearsal, leaving important stage business until the last night. And finally we have that unmitigated nuisance, the stumb ling actor, who is never up in his lines, gives eng cues, and, over and again, throws an entire scene into confusion. Such a man, no matter how great his natural ability may he, should be dropped without ceremony. 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.