Sir Charles Wyndham
A Biography (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Sir Charles Wyndham: A Biography<br><br>Oddly enough the greatest obstacle to the writing of this brief and happily unfinished biography has been its subjects. Sir Charles Wyndham has more than once been asked to write his autobiography, but he has declined because, in the first place, he has a great horror of anything that suggests to him self-advertisement, and, in the second place, because he believes that an account of his career would prove uninteresting to the reader. In short, he holds that the life of an actor qua actor is unattractive, and would say with David Garrick -<br><br>"The painter dead, yet still he charms the eye;<br>While England lives his name can never die.<br>But he who struts his hour upon the stage<br>Can scarce extend his fame for half an age;<br>Nor pen nor pencil can the actor save;<br>The art and artist share one common grave."<br><br>I hope that in the pages of this permitted biography I shall persuade my old friend to believe that all this is not true; that there are thousands upon thousands who are grateful to those who have instructed and amused us on the stage, and thousands and thousands who will come after us who, following in the footsteps of their forefathers, will not let their honoured memories die.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.