Before the footlights and behind the scenes [electronic resource] : a book about "the show business" in all its branches : from puppet shows to grand operas, from mountebanks to menageries, from learned pigs to lecturers, from burlesque blonds to actors and actresses : with some observations and reflections (original and reflected) on morality and immorality in amusements : thus exhibiting the "show world" as seen from within, through the eyes of the former actress, as well as from without, through the eyes of the present lecturer and author / by Olive Logan.