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Author: Clara Morris Publisher: ISBN: Category : Acting Languages : en Pages : 396
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This volume is a frank book, opening with a chapter dedicated to the "stage-struck" girl, warning her of the obstacles and hindrances with the candor of one who has known them all. Ms. Morris speaks with humor and charm about the mysterious and alluring life behind the footlights while giving readers bits of the shams and deceptions of the stage, and in a peculiarly open manner strips it of its false glitter. The highlights are the little stories of the actress' own career, which show how truly the most dramatic scenes in plays reflect the happenings in actual life.
Author: Clara Morris Publisher: ISBN: Category : Acting Languages : en Pages : 396
Book Description
This volume is a frank book, opening with a chapter dedicated to the "stage-struck" girl, warning her of the obstacles and hindrances with the candor of one who has known them all. Ms. Morris speaks with humor and charm about the mysterious and alluring life behind the footlights while giving readers bits of the shams and deceptions of the stage, and in a peculiarly open manner strips it of its false glitter. The highlights are the little stories of the actress' own career, which show how truly the most dramatic scenes in plays reflect the happenings in actual life.
Author: Jeffrey Davis Publisher: Sounds True ISBN: 1683646894 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 228
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Discover how the lost art of wonder can help you cultivate greater creativity, resilience, meaning, and joy as you bring your greatest contributions to life. Beyond grit, focus, and 10,000 hours lies a surprising advantage that all creatives have—wonder. Far from child’s play, wonder is the one radical quality that has led exemplary people from all walks of life to move toward the fruition of their deepest dreams and wildest endeavors—and it can do so for you, too. “Wonder is a quiet disruptor of unseen biases,” writes Jeffrey Davis. “It dissolves our habitual ways of seeing and thinking so that we may glimpse anew the beauty of what is real, true, and possible.” Rich with wisdom, inspiring stories, and practical tools, Tracking Wonder invites us to explore how the lost art of wonder can inspire a life of greater joy, possibility, and purpose. You’ll discover: The six facets of wonder—key qualities to help you cultivate the art of wonder in your work, relationships, and lifeHow wonder can help us fertilize creativity, sustain the motivation to pursue big ideas, navigate uncertainty and crises, deepen our relationships, and moreThe biases against wonder—moving beyond societal and internalized resistance to our inherent giftsWhy experiencing wonder isn’t really about achieving goals—though that happens—but about how we live each dayInspiring stories of people whose experiences of wonder helped them move through the unthinkable to create extraordinary livesPractical exercises, tools, and reflections to help you begin your own practice of tracking wonder A refreshing counter-voice to the exhausting narrative hyper-productivity, Tracking Wonder is a welcome guide for experiencing more meaning and joy in the present moment as you bring your greatest contributions to life.
Author: Claudia Durst Johnson Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476608946 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 222
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Throughout nineteenth century America, religious officials often condemned the theatre as an inversion of the house of God, similar to the church in architectural structure and organization but wholly different in purpose and values. This book explores the many ways in which religious institutions supported by capitalism profoundly affected the early development of American theatre. The author analyzes the church's critical view toward common theatre practices, including the use of female and child performers, and the lower class alliance with the stage. Three appendices provide period correspondence, including an excerpt from Mark Twain's February 1871 "Memoranda," in which Twain criticizes an Episcopalian reverend for denying church burial to a popular stage comedian.
Author: Nan Mullenneaux Publisher: University of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496210913 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 448
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Breaking every prescription of ideal femininity, American actresses of the mid-nineteenth century appeared in public alongside men, financially supported nuclear and extended families, challenged domestic common law, and traveled the globe in the transnational theater market. While these women expanded professional, artistic, and geographic frontiers, they expanded domestic frontiers as well: publicly, actresses used the traditional rhetoric of domesticity to mask their very nontraditional personal lives, instigating historically significant domestic innovations to circumvent the gender constraints of the mid-nineteenth century, reinventing themselves and their families in the process. Nan Mullenneaux focuses on the personal and professional lives of more than sixty women who, despite their diverse backgrounds, each made complex conscious and unconscious compromises to create profit and power. Mullenneaux identifies patterns of macro and micro negotiation and reinvention and maps them onto the waves of legal, economic, and social change to identify broader historical links that complicate notions of the influence of gendered power and the definition of feminism; the role of the body/embodiment in race, class, and gender issues; the relevance of family history to the achievements of influential Americans; and national versus inter- and transnational cultural trends. While Staging Family expands our understanding of how nineteenth-century actresses both negotiated power and then hid that power, it also informs contemporary questions of how women juggle professional and personal responsibilities—achieving success in spite of gender constraints and societal expectations.
Author: Peggy L. Headlund Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing ISBN: 1608609391 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
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"Lilia's in for many lessons-- her talent takes her to winning a $10,000 musical scholarship, modeling, and becoming an internationally known celebrity. But with fame comes other problems, and Lilia will encounter those who wish to destroy her faith, crush her spirit, and even threaten her life. As Lilia matures and is faced with the temporal temptations that are strewn in her path, she will have to decide what is really important."--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Mehmet A. Orgun Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3540769285 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 859
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2007, held in Gold Coast, Australia, in December 2007.The 58 revised full papers and 40 revised short papers presented together with the extended abstracts of three invited speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from 194 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on a broad range of subjects.
Author: Barbara Wallace Grossman Publisher: SIU Press ISBN: 0809387298 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 346
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Once called "America's greatest actress," renowned for the passion and power of her performances, Clara Morris (1847-1925) has been largely forgotten. A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage is the first full-length study of the actress's importance as a feminist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Detailing her daunting health problems and the changing tastes in entertainment that led to her retirement from the stage, Barbara Wallace Grossman explores Morris's dramatic reinvention as an author. During a second robust career, she published hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and nine books—six works of fiction and three memoirs. Grossman draws on the fifty-four-volume diary that Morris kept from 1868 until 1924, as well as on the manuscript fragments and notes of journalist George T. MacAdam, who died in 1929 before completing the actress's biography. Grossman provides a dramatic account of Morris's life and work from her troubled early years, through an unhappy marriage, morphine addiction, and invalidism, to the challenges of touring, the decline of her artistic reputation, and the demands of the writing career she pursued so tenaciously. A Spectacle of Suffering reveals how Morris, even after experiencing blindness and the loss of her home, livelihood, and family, did not succumb to despair and found comfort in the small pleasures of her circumscribed life. A Spectacle of Suffering recovers an important figure in American theatre and ensures that Morris will be remembered not simply as an actress but as a respected writer and beloved public figure, admired for her courage in dealing with adversity. The book, which is enhanced by twenty-four illustrations, is the only published biography of Clara Morris. It is as much a tribute to the power of the human spirit as it is an effective means of exploring American theatre and society in the Gilded Age.
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