| Show f r bojt rhe STAGE I 1 ute life una has few joya joy ami aud much j booth to whom henry E abbey would cheerfully have llave paid 1000 a night til ailt for IW consecutive night 4 was I 1 one of the most unhappy men on the face of gods earth he lie had burled two wives been through the tion of bankruptcy and so far as worldly wealth Is concerned so far as the comforts of a settled home go had yet ht tomake the one and secure the other this being the case what do you suppose is tho fate of minor people the fact Is that they work hard are underpaid never play the parts they prefer apay pay much by far tar the greater portion of their salaries for stage costumes invariably have a gang of bangers hangers on who aa cat t tha the bread they earn are out of engagements en most of the time and 11 ninety nety times out of a hundred die so poor that they ar arc 0 burled hurled ni at the expense of their fe fellows 1 bows jn in the tic first place it is extremely extreme y difficult for them to obtain a position and having a posit lou how few its advantages I 1 they have to rehearse at incon inconvenient ve went times they go out in all kinds of weather of their health or comforts or home desires they dress in outlandish places cither either wet damp and chilly or overheated they are at the capricious more mercy of speculative I 1 managers and having found by experience per peri lence ence that there la Is very little sympathy for them cither either before or behind the footlights they wrap themselves in a garment of mental to appearances appearance 3 which la Is utterly misunderstood der stood by bya a cynical and suspicious world I 1 I 1 know of a girl who was called to a sunday night rehearsal her father was very ill but the rental of their rooms the fees for the doctor and money for the drugs depended upon her attending to ht hr h T r business busness it was imperative that she should bo be in the theater at having arranged tho the room roon as women only can having placed upon the table by the bedside of her father his med medicine clue she kissed him goodby and with a loving touch promised ased to be back bick as early as possible you know i what sunday night rehearsals me mean an they mean 1 2 3 4 the next day that is what this one meant the girl hastened home the andle light had gone gont the cold gray of f the early morning waa was in the room the father was dead lead upon the bed bad boston globe I 1 |
