:

BEFORE THE FOOTLIGHTS

AND

BEHIND THE SCENES:

A BOOK ABOUT

"THE SHOW BUSINESS"

IN ALL ITS BRANCHES:

FROM PUPPET SHOWS TO GRAND OPERA; FROM

MOUNTEBANKS

MENAGERIES; FROM LEARNED PIGS TO LECTURERS; FROM
BURLESQUE BLONDES TO

ACTORS AND ACTRESSES:

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WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS (ORIGINAL AND RE-
FLECTED) ON MORALITY AND IMMORALITY IN AMUSEMENTS:
Thus Exhibiting the "SHOW WORLD" as

SEEN FROM WITHIN,

Through the Eyes of the Former Actress, as well as FROM WITHOUT,
through the Eyes of the Present Lecturer and Author.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.;

CINCINNATI, O.; MIDDLETOWN, CONN.

H. H. BANCROFT & CO., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

1870.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

PARMELEE & CO.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District

of Pennsylvania.