ISBN: 9781163109175

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the mise en scene by Edward Stirling. ' Tom Thumb' was the Christmas pantomime. ' Rebecca' realised a large sumâ?"some.£8,000; more than Sir Walter received for the original romance. I received the following little billet from Miss Neilson, with her likeness: '31, Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the mise en scene by Edward Stirling. ' Tom Thumb' was the Christmas pantomime. ' Rebecca' realised a large sumâ?"some.£8,000; more than Sir Walter received for the original romance. I received the following little billet from Miss Neilson, with her likeness: '31, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, ' Nov. 3, 1871. ' My Dear Mr. Stirling, ' With the greatest pleasure I enclose you one of my best photos, with my autograph at the bottom. ' Believe me, yours sincerely, ' Lilian Adelaide Lee-neilson.' While these pages are being finally prepared for press comes the sad news of poor Lilian Neilson's early death, at only thirty years of age, which took place at Paris very suddenly, when she had just returned from her third successful tour to the United States, on Sunday, August 15, 1880, and while she was still in the bloom and prime of her beauty and her genius. Her mortal remains were consigned totheir last resting-place in Brompton Cemetery on the following Friday. Her bright face will be missed for a long time by many a playgoer to whom she was unknown personally, but most by those who had had an opportunity of knowing what graces of mind and heart were added to her graces of person. This humble flower is strewn by an admirer on her grave. Fashion And The Ballet Lady.â?"For the performance of Shakespeare's ' Antony and Cleopatra,' a large number of girls were engaged to dance in an Egyptian ballet. One of these ' Beauties of the Nile' persisted, in spite of my remonstrances, in retaining her English complexion. ' The colour was so nasty to put on.' I pointed out to her how preposterous she looked, so opposite to an Egyptian's skin. ' What's that to do with my skin? ' said she, with the beautiful and amazing absence of logic so remarkable Books, Literary Collections~~General, Old-Drury-Lane~~Edward-Stirling, , , , , , , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9781163109175

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