Hours With the Players, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hours With the Players, Vol. 2 of 2 Perhaps (for who can guess the effects of chance Here Hunt may box or Mahomet may dance. Even more deplorable events, still more beyond the prospect of Mr. Baddeley's belief, were to happen. He could not possibly have dreamt that his Twelfth-cake Would ever fall a prey to foreign invaders, to a troop of F rench performers. Yet the Twelfth N ight of 1849 saw Drury Lane Theatre converted into a circus, and in the possession of F ranconi's equestrian company from the Paris Cirque. On that occasion the Twelfth-cake, wine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.