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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 present lecturer and author

Print Book, English, 1870
Parmelee & Co. ; H.H. Bancroft & xo, Philadelphia, Pa. [etc], San Francisco, Cal, 1870
xv, [17]-612 pages : illustrations, plates, portraits ; 23 cm
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