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Title: A Forgotten World...
Review: Before there was radio, before there were movies, before TV, there were the great British music halls, called "Empires" with their Vaudevillian comedies and light drama. In this novel by the English writer J.B. Priestly, the main character, an eighteen-year-old aspiring artist, leaves his rural village after the death of his mother, and travels through the Empire circuit with his uncle, a famous stage magician. Beginning in 1913 and for the most part concluding at the start of WWI a year and a half later, this story brings a by-gone era back to life and shows us how actors and actresses of the pre-film era lived, worked, and in a few memorable cases in this book, how they died as well.
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