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Title: Theatrical and circus life;
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Jennings, John Joseph, 1853-1909. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Theater Circus
Publisher: Chicago, Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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new world behind the scenes.The female portion of that illusory sphere have noth-ing to say to him except with their eyes, which veryforcibly inquire the meaning of his presence there. If a person would like to understand how awfullystrange and lonely it will be for the last individual leftalive upon earth, he need only pay a first visit to thestage of a theatre where he is not acquainted with anyof the actors or actresses, and has not even the pleasureof knowing one of the minor attaches. Any attempt toform an acquaintance is promptly and unmistakablyrepelled, and all the poor unfortunate has to do is tomove up where he is out of everybodys way, andhe can look on and wonder to his hearts content. Ashe inspects his surroundings and has his attention called 22 A PRELIMINARY rEF.P. to the actions of tho people whose business it is toplace tlie stage in shape for an ad or scene of a play,he will readily comprehend the meaning of forming :iworld out of ehaos. (f they are getting ready the
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LOTTA. balcony scene for Eomeo and Juliet, wing pieces arepushed out to represent trees and the side of the houseof the Capulets — and what a house it usually is, too, A PRELIMINARY PEEP. 23 for such elegant people ! The front of the house israpidly placed in position between two wings, the bal-cony is quickly nailed on, and with the aid of a rudescaffolding behind the scene and a ladder, the fair Julietmounts, and, feeling her way carefully, at last steps outupon the frail structure to tell the sweet moon her lovefor Romeo. The whole thing looks ridiculous. Even thestately daughter of the Capulets has not beauty or skillenough to remove the absurdity from the scene which hasthe appearance of being, and is in reality nothing elsethan wood and canvas freely splashed with paint ofthe proper colors. A painted box represents a stone ;a green carpet passes for grass ; the beautiful bric-a-brac that opens the eyes of the aesthetic people in theaudience is only brown paper hurriedly daubed

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