Excerpt from Enter Madame: A Play in Three ActsWhereat there was rejoicing among all those who like to see whatever is fine-grained and creditable to the theatre greeted with that kind of overwhelming popular support which the pessimists insist is always reserved for what is gross and cheap and tawdry great rejoicing, indeed, among those who knew, or came to know, something of the story that lay behind the writing and the acting of it. Such back-stage snooping as this implies is often disillusionizing and almost always unwarrantably intrusive. But some glance into what might be called the personal history of Enter Madame is justified because it involves not only the manner but the matter of the play.It is a motley story, one that pokes back a hundred years among the dusty laurels of Italian opera, makes such ambitious leaps as a journey from Rome to Chicago involves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.