Author: de Wolf Hopper

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Published: 2017-05-23

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780259933397

Excerpt from Once a Clown, Always a Clown: Reminiscences of De Wolf HopperMost of us fall into our life jobs by chance. We do not become department-store buyers, state policemen, railway 'mail clerks or candy makers because of any driving urge to these particular vocations, but because the paths of least resistance drifted us that way. We have - worse luck to make a living, and this or that was the best or the first that offered.The actor and the actress do not, with rare exceptions, drift on to the stage. They make a dead set for it. Nor do they think of it in terms of meal tickets. They cross the foot lights out of an egotistic desire to strut before an admiring world. They hope romantically to win a fortune along with their pictures in the papers, but always they have been willing to starve cheerfully if accompanied by adequate publicity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.