Excerpt from Mrs. Fiske, Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production It was all very well for Grant Allen in his day to say that Hea'a'a was nothing more or less than the girl we take down to dinner in London nineteen times out of twenty. Cer tainly she was something more this time, for Tess of Ike d'urbervz'lles - not Hardy's Tess, perhaps, but ours - sat there, too. I was at supper with Hea'a'a and Tess and Becky Sharp, but surely that was Becky's red hair that could be glimpsed in the shadow of the big hat and voluminous veil. That erect figure, vital, alert, indefatigable, eloquently animate, surely that was Becky. There was something of Becky, also, in the mutinous, gleaming humor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.