"Plays are put up in packages and sold at the delicatessen shops"
THE
FOOTLIGHTS
FORE AND AFT
BY
CHANNING POLLOCK
WITH 50 FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY
WARREN ROCKWELL
RICHARD G. BADGER
THE GORHAM PRESS
BOSTON
Copyright 1911 by Richard G. Badger
All Rights Reserved
The articles that make up this volume originally appeared, at varioustimes, in Collier's Weekly, The Saturday Evening Post, The AssociatedSunday Magazines, The Smart Set, Munsey's Magazine, Ainslee'sMagazine, Smith's Magazine, and The Green Book Album. The authordesires to thank the editors of these periodicals for permission torepublish.
The Gorham Press Boston, U. S. A.
TO THE LADY WHO GOES TO THE THEATER WITH ME
CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTION | |
| Wherein, at union rates, the author performs the common but popular musical feat known as "blowing one's own horn" | 13 |
| THE THEATER AT A GLANCE | |
| Being a correspondence school education in the business of the playhouse that should enable the veriest tyro to become a Charles Frohman or a David Belasco | 19 |
| SOME PEOPLE I'VE LIED ABOUT | |
| Being reminiscences of the author's nefarious but more or less innocuous career as a press agent | 48 |
| THE WRITING AND READING OF PLAYS | |
| Being a discussion as to which pursuit is the more painful, with various entertaining and instructive remarks as to the method of following both | 90 |
| THE PERSONALITIES OF OUR PLAYWRIGHTS | |
| Being an effort to outdo Ernest Thompson Seton and Charles G. D. Roberts at their own game—which is speaking literally | 122 |
| STAGE STRUCK | |
| Being a diagnosis of the disease, and a description of its symptoms, which has the rare medical merit of attempting a cure at the same time | 164 |
| ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY | |
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