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Стивен Ликок. Over the Footlights
Over the Footlights
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OVER THE FOOTLIGHTS
I.—Cast Up by the Sea. A Sea Coast Melodrama (As Thrown up for 30 cents)—Period, 1880
II.—The Soul Call. An Up-to-date Piffle Play. Period, 1923. (In Which a Man and Woman, Both Trying to Find Themselves, Find One Another)
ACT II—The Drawing Room of the Chown Residence
III.—Dead Men’s Gold. A film of the great Nevada desert in which Red-Blooded, Able-Bodied Men and Women a hundred per cent American live and love among the cactus and chaparral. Something of the Ozone of the Cow Pasture mingled with the gloom of the great canyons blows all through this play
IV.—Oroastus—A Greek Tragedy (As presented in our colleges)
V.—The Sub-Contractor. An Ibsen Play. Done out of the Original Norwegian with an axe
VI.—Historical Drama
VII.—The Russian Drama
(A) Old Style
VIII.—The Platter of Life
IX.—People We Meet in the Movies. The Vampire Woman; as Met in the Movies
X.—The Raft: An Interlude
OTHER FANCIES
I.—First Call for Spring —or— Oh, Listen to the Birds
II.—How I Succeeded in My Business. Secrets of Success as Related in the Best Current Literature
III.—The Dry Banquet
IV.—My Lost Dollar
V.—Radio A New Form of Trouble
VI.—Roughing It in the Bush. My Plans for Moose Hunting in the Canadian Wilderness
VII.—Abolishing the Heroine (A Plea that Fewer Heroines and More Crimes Would Add Sprightliness to our Fiction)
VIII.—My Affair with My Landlord
IX.—Why I Refuse to Play Golf
X.—The Approach of the Comet. Do You Really Care if it Hits You?
XI.—Personal Experiments with the Black Bass
XII.—L’Envoi. The Faded Actor
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Stephen Butler Leacock
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“We’ve put in under the point,” Ned explains, “and I come ashore. But it’s only to say good-bye. The Good Hope can’t lie there in this rising wind. We’ll have to put off at once. This is my father, Hope. You’ll be a daughter to him while I’m gone!”
Hope goes up to the old man and puts her two hands in his and says, oh so sweetly, “I will indeed, sir, for Ned’s sake.”
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