Excerpt from The Actors' Birthday Book, Vol. 2: An Authoritative Insight Into the Lives of the Men and Women of the Stage Born Between January First and December Thirty-First The second series of the Actors' Birthday Book needs little in the way of a scenario, except to repeat what has been said in the previous volume. Encouraged by the success of its predecessor, the compiler has done his best to maintain the standard of the earlier work, at the same time endeavoring to achieve even a higher grade of excellence. As in the first book, only a few of the artists mentioned herein supplied any data concerning themselves, a plea for any inaccuracies, bound to occur in biographical research, that may be discovered. The same complimentary spirit in the writing of the biographies is again maintained, to better carry out the idea of a birthday publication. Not a few readers will be glad to note the introduction of the names of several well-known players who have crossed the great divide. Many English names have also been introduced into the present volume, it being the compiler's wish to make the work as comprehensive in its scope as possible. And, too, it is regrettable that there still remain unfilled several calendared dates, though the number is lessened at least four-fifths, several names, of a necessity, being carried over from the first book, and, thus encouraged, it is to be hoped that the list will be absolutely complete in subsequent volumes of this work. 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.