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Once a clown, always a clown: Reminiscences of De Wolf Hopper, Hardcover – January 1, 1927
by DeWolf Hopper Wesley Winans Stout (Author)

Publisher ? : ? Little Brown (January 1, 1927)
Language ? : ? English

William DeWolf Hopper (March 30, 1858 – September 23, 1935) was an American actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer. A star of vaudeville and musical theater, he became best known for performing the popular baseball poem "Casey at the Bat".

Excerpt from Once a Clown, Always a Clown

Most of us fall into our life jobs by chance. We do not become department-store buyers, state policemen, railway 'mail clerks or candy makers because of any driving urge to these particular vocations, but because the paths of least resistance drifted us that way. We have — worse luck to make a living, and this or that was the best or the first that offered. The actor and the actress do not, with rare exceptions, drift on to the stage. They make a dead set for it. Nor do they think of it in terms of meal tickets. They cross the foot lights out of an egotistic desire to strut before an admiring world. They hope romantically to win a fortune along with their pictures in the papers, but always they have been willing to starve cheerfully if accompanied by adequate publicity....



First Edition 1927 by Little Brown Hardcover with dust jacket. Size 6x8.5" 240 pages w numerous b/w photo plates

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Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the Great War. It faded away after 1918 as the halls rebranded their entertainment as variety.[1] Perceptions of a distinction in Britain between bold and scandalous Music Hall and subsequent, more respectable Variety differ. Music hall involved a mixture of popular songs, comedy, speciality acts, and variety entertainment.[2] The term is derived from a type of theatre or venue in which such entertainment took place. In North America vaudeville was in some ways analogous to British music hall,[3] featuring rousing songs and comic acts.

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