Excerpt from History of the American Stage: Containing Biographical Sketches of Nearly Every Member of the Profession That Has Appeared on the American Stage, From 1733 to 1870 The stage is an arduous profession, requiring so many natural gifts, com bined with difficult acquirements, that while success is honor and happi ness, failure, though unfortunate and full of disappointment, is no disgrace; and every new aspirant knows that success or failure is the result of public opinion, and that his efforts must at all times be Open to public criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.