Gaiety and George Grossmith: Random Reflections on the Serious Business of Enjoyment (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Professionally, Grossmith is the lightest, the airiest, the most irresponsible of men. Occasionally, Off the stage Of course, he is seen in graver mood. Still, gaiety remains his lifework; and just as most men reflect their business in their personality, when they are away from it in their leisure hours, so Grossmith in private life is - well, far from forlorn. Rarely is he so grave that he can forget to be gay. But behind the personality Of Grossmith the jester, there is always Gros smith the man - a shrewd although tolerant Observer, to whom all the world's a stage, the most interesting, in fact, Of all possible stages. He knows well his London, while he knows even better his Paris. And he has put his knowledge to some account.

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