LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1909
REPRODUCED AND PRINTED BY
BALLANTYNE AND CO. LTD., TAVISTOCK STREET, LONDON, W.C.
PREFACE
Looking back on the method of production of this book, it seems to me not to have been so much a matter of toil as a natural growth. It seems to have produced itself, for my earliest photographs were taken as records of the different characters that I played. These studies, as they were published from time to time in the Sketch, Tatler, Playgoer and other papers, aroused a certain amount of interest.
Frequent requests from brother actors for me to help them with their make-ups convinced me that my instruction was desired.