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Show NO MOKE PAFXljB MA CHE FOOD. "Papier mache food won't be seen on the atage this season. Everything chickens, chops, cutlets, loaves will be real." The speaker, a manufacturer of atage properties, dusted a casque and resumed, re-sumed, a little sadly: "I have had to do away with my papier pa-pier mache food department, discharging discharg-ing two men and an apprentice. - For even the 10; 10 and 30-cent shows aon't carry Jake vianda now. They aay that as far back . -aa Paint Rock, Meroa and Lodl the people Insist that actora eat real food on the stage. "It looks better,- I suppose. At the, same time this new-fangled realism is playing the deuce with the atage property prop-erty business. It Is putting good men out of work. "And consider Its expense. I know or one comedy, with a banquet scene In the aecond act, where a bottle of real champagne and a real lobster aalad are used every night. . This comedy baa been played 1000 timea In the laat three yeara. There la expense for you art expense of $4000 for food alone. Wel. one papier mache champagne bottle and one papier mache salad worth about $3 would have-saved aU that money." Philadelphia bulletin.. |