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Show Slang Expressions Used by Actors. When the next slang dictionary Is compiled com-piled several pages undoubtedly will be reserved for the Vernacular of the stage, which Is being added to dally. To hear a group of "troupers'' talking shop along Broadway the uninitiated would think he was listening to the jargon of thieves. Weird, uncanny expressions fall glibly from the Hps of actors, principally of the vaudeville world, and are as readily understood un-derstood as tho purest English. It would be a difficult matter to determine deter-mine tho origin of somo words. Many of them me coined on the spot and pass along to take their place In theatrical vocabulary. vo-cabulary. The veteran nctor never stops to nsk the translation of somo word unknown un-known to hint. He treasures it up, digests di-gests Its application and utilises It at the most convenient opportunity. The moro euphonious the word the wider Its elreu-lullon. elreu-lullon. "Gonzwab," for Inslunee. Is a noun sometimes used as an adjective. I'suullv It means the play or sketch In which the aitor is appcurlng. Sometimes It i used to designate u car or train. When applied to a person It Is meant slightingly. To refer to a man as a "gonxwab" Is to express ex-press the most profound contempt the word Is not to be confounded with HE$ZW?0,ni !SWBVeJ. which is confined solely to articles of household use It a abedmean ;inytlUnf-'' f,'om sugar bowl to .l'11.1 '". ,s 1!k,QW'Ho wide In Its appllca-llon, appllca-llon, but Is used mainly to describe somo article previously mentlonT! lion, but which for the nH ln tho mind of the speaker think of tho missing wni somebody else to break in prlvo the actor of a chanr.l ho substitutes "Jigger" l. fl on.oknowlng that ho ,. Cigarettes are known as ..,; cigars as "bands " A box of 3 ever. Is usually called nn Drink of any kind riU3 unnJf of "tub " Thus, If nn jcW friends of a meeting with am ' mny be unpopular, nays &B "The gonzwab asked ino tn and I oponcd a fresh orchetA. ers nod undcrstnndlngly ' ' There la one word which i nentcuco, lo bo translated nttu3. of the hearer The nearest J 1 spelling It Is "Ploffh." and it disparaging sense. An actor tt tho performance of a fellow D say. 'He was all right until that thon-ploff h." nat r When accompanied by a Wn,.. arm3 It means that iho acnr ciisslon was considered nhsni.,.0? quato for tho role It aavS 6crlptlon for tho speaker ami vi f Is appreciated. nna w Another tells of hla vlBlt to a seeking for an engagement 5 "Whnt did ho sayf" neks" th. "Ploffh!" And there la no ft? of words. 0 rurtb Tho theater call hoard I vv "sign" or "shingle." Wardrobe r to ns "rag3" or "raiment." arv,J the texture nnd value Good ? roles are called "pork" andiS spectlvely. The orchestra ieadii "swinger" or somo times "bnhJ mnnager well, It nil depends degreo of estimation in which v? -Now York Press, ca |