Night at the VulcanMacmillan, 1998 M10 15 - 256 pages A London actor was dying for a star billing... From the leading lady's liaison to the harassment of an aging juvenile lead-there's never a dull moment, darling, at the Vulcan Theatre. But vanity and hysterics, suspicion and superstition, brandy and jealousy, are upstaged by a death on opening night. Was it really suicide? Or a macabre encore to a long-ago murder in the same backstage room? Scotland Yard's cast of suspects for the final curtain. |
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... Clem Smith , stage - manager Bob Cringle , dresser to Adam Poole Adam Poole , actor - manager Helena Hamilton , leading lady Clark Bennington , her husband Gay Gainsford , his niece of the Vulcan Theatre J. G. Darcey , character actor ...
... Clem Smith , stage - manager Bob Cringle , dresser to Adam Poole Adam Poole , actor - manager Helena Hamilton , leading lady Clark Bennington , her husband Gay Gainsford , his niece of the Vulcan Theatre J. G. Darcey , character actor ...
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Contents
THE VULCAN | 11 |
IN A GLASS DARKLY | 31 |
FIRST DRESS REHEARSAL | 59 |
SECOND DRESS REHEARSAL | 81 |
OPENING NIGHT | 105 |
PERFORMANCE | 125 |
DISASTER | 144 |
AFTERPIECE | 174 |
THE SHADOW OF OTTO BROD | 201 |
SUMMING UP | 224 |
LAST ACT | 247 |
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