Excerpt from From School to StageI sincerely h0pe I shall be judged very, very leniently in this, my first effort as anvauthoress. In fact, it is only because I have been approached so often to write the story of my stage career that I have attempted the task at all. And I would like to say that I should surely have given it up in despair long ago had not Mr. Bernard Parsons so kindly lent me his invaluable assistance in turning a chaotic pile of notes into - Well-sorne sort of order.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.