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FOOTLIGHTS

by

RITA WEIMAN


[Publisher’s device]






New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1923

Copyright, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922
by Rita Weiman

Printed in U. S. A.




                _To_
              MY MOTHER
    _on whose love and influence
     the curtain will never fall._




CONTENTS

                        PAGE
  The Curtain Rises       ix

  Footlights               3

  Madame Peacock          67

  Grease-Paint           127

  The Back Drop          169

  Two Masters            219

  Up Stage               249

  Curtain!               289

  The Curtain Falls      341




THE CURTAIN RISES


Arched like the dome of heaven, illumi