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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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any evenings is now vacant andready for the occupancy of another loving couple. Another tire lad of the same department thought hesmelt fire one night just before the performance began.He pried around through every nook and corner in thefulfilment of his duty, and at last was satisfied that hehad found Ihe place. Fie was not sufficiently wellposted to know that he had located the incipient blazein one of the ladies dressing-rooms. So in he poppedwithout giving any warning. The girls were dressingfor the ballet and already one of them was in conditionto get into her symmetrical. Imagine the consterna-tion of the girls at sight of the apparition in blueclothes, cap, and brass buttons. They hastily gotbehind towels and other articles within reach and setup a screech that came near creating a panic among theaudience. The fire boy did not wait to find the originof the smoke, and it took all the persuasive powers of 117IN THE WINGS. ±Lt the manager and company to keep the girls from SWear-
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lKLLE GERALDINE AND LITTLE GERRY. ing out warrants for burglary or something of that kindagainst the luckless laddie. There are a great many other ludicrous things that 118 in Tin: Wixi have happened behind the scenes, and but few ofwhich have reached the public. The legend aboutAtkins Lawrences lion skin, which he wears when lieplays Ingomar, and which was so heavily sprinkledwith snuff as a preservative against moths that whenParthenia began to woo the barbarian chief and leantlovingly upon his shoulder she almost sneezed herhead off before the alarmed audience, is told of MaryAnderson. The Milwaukee Sun printed somethingabout the same actress, that whether true or false isequally good. The writer says: — l« It is well knownthat Miss Anderson is addicted to the gum-chewinghabit, and that when Bhe goes upon the stage shesticks her chew of gum on an old castle painted on thescenery. There was a wicked young man playingminor part in the play who had been treated scornfullyby Mary, a

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