William Winter
Published: 2015-07-01
Total Pages: 98
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Excerpt from The Actor and Other Speeches, Chiefly on Theatrical Subjects and Occasions It has been my fortune, more by chance than by design, to deliver many speeches and poems on dramatic and other occasions. Many of those speeches were extemporaneous, and as they were not reported they perished as soon as they were spoken. One of them, an oration on "The Press and the Stage," was delivered before The Goethe Society, at the Brunswick Hotel, New-York, January 28, 1889, and it has been published in a separate volume. In compliance with the request of comrades in The Dunlap Society a few of the others are brought together here. The longest and most important of them relates to "The Actor, and His Duty to His Time." This was read before a large assemblage of actors, at Palmer's Theater, and as it contains unwelcome truths it was received partly with approval and partly with disfavor. 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.