stage-infatuation

Updated: June 1, 2025

It is true that, in her case, this stage-infatuation was a real misfortune, for in some other walk she might have made a furore. That nude scene, in fact, was symbolic of the temperament, and, had she taken to writing, would have come out as an autobiographic novel.

Louis Zangwill - Cleo The Magnificent : Or, the Muse of the Real