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100 1  Calvert, Louis,|d1859-1923,|eauthor. 
245 10 Problems of the Actor :|bWith an Introd by Clayton 
       Hamilton /|cLouis Calvert. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bMuriwai Books,
       |c[2018] 
264  4 |c©2018 
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520    I HAVE been on the stage for more than forty years. My 
       profession and its problems have been the principal 
       interest in my life. It is natural that such an extended 
       association with the theater should yield certain 
       technical theories on my art; and, since I am nearing 
       sixty, it is natural that I should want to talk about 
       them. I do not regard any opinion I hold on the subject of
       acting as infallible; I learn something new about my 
       profession every day; but there is one claim I make for 
       the opinions I state in this book: they are not hasty. 
       They have been two score years in taking shape. I have 
       watched many young people start their careers on the 
       stage; I have seen some of them rise to success, and 
       others sink to oblivion. It has seemed to me that the 
       difficulties each met, and the mistakes each was likely to
       make were, in a general way, always of the same character.
       They were the difficulties and mistakes which all actors 
       encounter. There is no lack of books dealing with the 
       lives of those in the actor's profession. But few of them 
       shed any light on the technique by which the admired 
       actors of the past rose to high place. They are mostly 
       pleasant, chatty reminiscences of their personal lives, 
       whereas it is their professional lives that are 
       significant. However, in this little study, I have not 
       attempted an autobiographical account of my early 
       struggles in the profession, nor a story of my experiences
       on the stage; I have rather tried to derive from my 
       experiences some truths which might be of service to the 
       beginning actor, to state as concretely as possible some 
       of the simple principles which bitter experience has made 
       me believe are sound. -- Louis Calvert. 
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650  0 Acting. 
650  0 Actors|vCorrespondence. 
650  7 PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General.|2bisacsh 
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