actor-managers

Updated: June 14, 2025

The documents you have palmed off on the world are the products of unadulterated Pigottism. You know it, we know it, and by and bye everyone will know it. * June, 1890. This is the age of advertisement. Look at the street-hoardings, look at the newspapers, look at our actor-managers, look at Barnum. Scream from the housetops or you stand no chance.

G. W. (George William) Foote - Flowers of Freethought: (Second Series)

Now, it may be asserted confidently that a number of the plays produced this year have undergone the process of being altered to please managers, actor-managers, star players and syndicates.

Edward Fordham Spence - Our Stage and Its Critics : By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

French perhaps is an advisable medium; though, if the operator misunderstands it, your love is apt to take strange forms at its destination, and if he understands it, you may as well use English at once. "Dear Mike! God bless him!" and they pledged Mike in Esther's favourite champagne. The wives of great actor-managers must early inure themselves to champagne.

Richard Le Gallienne - Young Lives