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 to menageries, from learned pigs to lecturers, from burlesque blondes to actors and actresses, with some observations and reflections (original and reflected) 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