
This book contains 250 anecdotes, especially about he arts, including dance. Some samples: 1) The famous actor Edmund Kean idolized fellow actor George Frederick Cooke. He even had a monument erected over Mr. Cooke's grave in New York and carried away one of Mr. Cooke's finger...

This is a short, quick, and easy read. Some Sample Anecdotes: - John Barrymore was noted as much for his dissipation as for his acting. While acting in Hamlet after a night of revelry, he began the "To be or not to be" soliloquy, but in the middle of the speech...
