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Strictly Business - 9781973857785
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All theatrical people on leaving the theatre at night drink champagne and eat lobsters until noon the next day. After all, the moving pictures have got the whole bunch pounded to a pulp. Now, few of us know the real life of the stage people. If we did, the profession might be more overcrowded than it is. We look askance at the players with an eye full of patronizing superiority-and we go home and practise all sorts of elocution and gestures in front of our looking glasses. Latterly there has been much talk of the actor people in a new light. It seems to have been divulged that instead of being motoring bacchanalians and diamond-hungry loreleis they are businesslike folk, students and ascetics with childer and homes and libraries, owning real estate, and conducting their private affairs in as orderly and unsensational a manner as any of us good citizens who are bound to the chariot wheels of the gas, rent, coal, ice, and wardmen;
| Author: O. Henry |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Jul 26, 2017 |
| Number of Pages: 200 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1973857782 |
| ISBN-13: 9781973857785 |
Strictly Business - 9781973857785
$11.33
All theatrical people on leaving the theatre at night drink champagne and eat lobsters until noon the next day. After all, the moving pictures have got the whole bunch pounded to a pulp. Now, few of us know the real life of the stage people. If we did, the profession might be more overcrowded than it is. We look askance at the players with an eye full of patronizing superiority-and we go home and practise all sorts of elocution and gestures in front of our looking glasses. Latterly there has been much talk of the actor people in a new light. It seems to have been divulged that instead of being motoring bacchanalians and diamond-hungry loreleis they are businesslike folk, students and ascetics with childer and homes and libraries, owning real estate, and conducting their private affairs in as orderly and unsensational a manner as any of us good citizens who are bound to the chariot wheels of the gas, rent, coal, ice, and wardmen;
| Author: O. Henry |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Jul 26, 2017 |
| Number of Pages: 200 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1973857782 |
| ISBN-13: 9781973857785 |
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