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Screen Acting

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Mae Marsh

Silent film star, Mae Marsh, recounts her life as an actress in this publication, what she deems as being the answer to thousands of letters…

Mollie of the Movies

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Kenneth Mcgaffey

This is a story of a girl who tries to make it big in the world of show business. McGaffey gives us the heroine's first-person account. He w…

28 - Volume Two, Chapter 8: The Game of Pique

In Gwen Wynn - A Romance of the Wye

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Mayne Reid and Thomas Mayne Reid

Gwendoline Wynn, our heroine, is an orphan-heiress who lives on the river Wye. She will live with aunt until she comes of age and her money.…

Maisie at the Movies: A Monologue

In Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1

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Gertrude S. Welton

Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kine…

25 - Mary's Reception

In Mary Marston

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George MacDonald

Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…

Act II

In The Ghost Sonata

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August Strindberg

The Ghost Sonata (Spöksonaten) is a play in three acts by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. Written in 1907, it was first produced …

John of Gaunt and Joanna of Kent

In Imaginary Conversations (Dramatic Reading)

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Walter Savage Landor

This is a group of Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor. It is a series of dialogues of historical and mythical characters. Marce…

02 - Alice Brown

In The Women Who Make Our Novels

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Grant M. Overton

”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely un…

12 - A Slight Disagreement

In The Boarded Up House

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Augusta Huiell Seaman

What is the secret of the old boarded up house? And what is the answer to the mystery of the long lost letter that is found in it? Best frie…

Chapter 5 by Kathleen Norris (1880-1966)

In The Sturdy Oak

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Various

At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely gener…