Show WORSE THAN DUDES THE STAC doon GIRL IS A STERN TO ACTRESSES tho stage acor dudo vectored to vo a 31 til bit alio ono alio haunt alie exit theater I 1 generally an atlo tilt of a maiden I 1 lave read stories concerning crowds of men of nil ages and sizes who swarin about the stage doors of theaters staring the actresses out oi countenance and making themselves generally disagreeable and obnoxious but door dude lives only in the newspapers I 1 have on the stag ewell I 1 wont how many years but in all that time I 1 have never been ono of his kind there ia however being who haunts the sage door this individual prefers sunshiny matinee days li young pretty well dressed and possesses an alarming caramel in short it is the sister or possibly the daughter of the stage door dude lie it he ever existed belongs to a past generation she goes to the matinee falls in 1 with the hero sympathizes with the hero ine hates the villain giggles at the comedian the baago door girl never laughs and say she thinks the just dear then when the curtain falls upon the reunited lovers with the villain shipped off to botany bay alio galleys or sing sing according to his location she devours her last caramel and hurries to the stage door and she does abot go to the stage door to see the hero the leading juvenile or the handsome villain but astonishing fact to see the heroine the or the sou brettel this door which is to her eyes a gilded portal is usually located down the dingiest din giest dirtiest alley iu the neighborhood dut it does not look dingy or dirty to her she does not even sec the garbage barrels tin cans and general gloominess of tho place her mecca Is that door through which eho pass that radiant vision whom she has just seen folded to the heart of the hero I 1 have known girls to bland for an hour or more in a pouring rain with ened ardor merely to see a egure completely enveloped in mackintosh veil and umbrella hurry past them and disappear in baltimore are two pretty sisters who I 1 an assured are cultivated and refined young women these girls have a perfect craze for actresses every sunday they are seen at the principal railway station of he town 0 o welcome the coming and speed the parting actress although they have no personal acquaintances in the profession they are perfectly content to worship from afar but they must see their divinity and find out if she is as pretty off the stage as she is on it they usually fait in a front seat at the theater and ebare at her through their opera glasses this to a sensitive actress is something maddening it by any chance she happens to catch sight of them however there are many people who do this same thing and who are not stage door girls and no doubt the girls are justified in thinking that they have a right to do so but I 1 cannot see what pleasure they derive from a minute inspection of rouge and grease paint to return to the stage door girl it will require a great deal of argument to convince her that the hero and heroine are not madly in love with each other in private life pretty girl once said to an actress of my acquaintance Is it really possible that you do not love mr certainly not plied my friend well I 1 cant understand it said the young lady lie must in love with you or he act his part so well it was time and words wasted trying to convince this on baue young woman that mr B a devoted husband and father with about as much sentimental regard tor my friend as he had for the table over which he spoke certain line the sword with which ho fought the villain or any oilier stage property the stage door girls room is usually decorated with photographs of her favorites and she is not always contented with a mere photograph actresses receive photographs of themselves every day from admiring girls with the request that they return them with their autograph all sorts of questions are asked in these notes this one wants a lock of hair another to know who makes her dresses and I 1 know of one girl more curious than tho rest who wished to know the name of her corset maker but the letter received by actresses are not all from inquisitive girls whose eyes have been dazzled by the glare of the foot lights sometimes they come from sensible thoughtful women who wish to tell of an evening pleasantly perhaps profitably ebent at the theater and to speak hordof commendation and encouragement these are always pleasing to the actresses who receive them one word of honest appreciation Is worth whole pages of dueh and no one is so quick to appreciate this a a bonan whose life la passed in an honest struggle to achieve success and possibly distinction on the baago A friend of mine received the following note accompanied by a bible and a bunch of violets from a dear old lady my I 1 nm sure you will not b offended by an old woman sending you allia bitt and her best wishes I 1 have many times witnessed i our interpretations of character that show much intelligence I 1 know to look into your honest ayea that you have a pure heart god bless and keep you very sincerely SIRS and blesa her heart her judgment was not incorrect and a bible and a little faded bunch of violets are kept among the dearest treasures of the actress lii question before tho actors fund fair a great deal was said about the probability cf the actresses alio attended the booths being subjected to insolent attentions from men this fear was afterward found to be entirely groundless it was pot the men who pushed and struggled in the browda about the booths staring and making audible comments about the actresses who were working for charity it was the women tace gentle creature flocked there in crowds and stared to their bearta content it was the first time they had ever had such an opportunity and they were bound to make the most of it of course I 1 do not assert that every woman went there out of mere curiosity to stare and comment but from personal experience I 1 should say the sensible ones were in a vast 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