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A PRELIMINARY PEEP. PAGES Admission Fees--Cerberus at the Back Door--The Awe-Stricken Stranger behind the Scene--Swarms of Actors and Employees-- Description of Stage Settings--The Green-Room and Dressing-Room Explored--A Visit to the Dressing-Tent of the Circus--An Act that Beats anything of the kind in the World--The Female Minstrel Gang and the Break-o'-Day Girls 19-27

A THEATRE OF SHAKESPEARE'S DAY.

THE AMERICAN THEATRE.

Davy Garrick at Drury Lane, London--English Actors sail for America--Voyage in the Charming Sally in 1752--The First American Theatre--The First Programme--The First New York Theatre, 1753--The First Performance in Philadelphia, April, 1754--The First Show in Boston, August, 1792--The Priest and the Spanish Lady--Elegant Theatres of the Present Period 37-42

AT THE STAGE-DOOR.

Front Door and Back Door Entrances--"Mashers" at the "Stage-Door" --The Cerberus who Stands Guard--Perquisites Paid to Him-- Bulkhead and the Ballet Girls--The Tricks of the Scene Painter on the Girls--The Girls' Revenge--Bold and Heartless Lovers --Notes Pushed under the Dressing-Room Door--Alice Oates's Mash--Watching the Manoeuvres of the "Mashers"--Tale of the Pink Symmetrical 43-54

BEFORE THE FOOT-LIGHTS.

People who Patronize the Theatre--The Young Blood--Members of the "Profesh"--The Giddy and Gushing Usher--The Bouncer-- The Peanut Cruncher--The People who go out "Between Acts"-- The Big Hat Nuisance--Anecdote of George and Harry 55-68

BEHIND THE SCENES.

An Amateur Theatre--The Author's Experience as "Imp" in a Spectacular Scene--A Trip to the Moon 69-85

IN THE DRESSING-ROOM.

Goodwin's "Make-up" for Hobbies--Booth and Company Playing "Hamlet" in Street Costume--Dressing-Rooms of Old-Time and Present Theatres--Louis Harrison Spoils a Play at San Francisco --How Actors "Make up" for Various Parts--The Hair-Dresser and the Actress 86-105

WITHIN THE WINGS.

The Stage Prompter and His Duties--Actors who "Stick" and some who "Never Stick"--A Popular Actress and her Useful Husband --The Firemen's Amours--Mary Anderson and Her Chewing-Gum-- Emmet's Indiscretions 106-121

STAGE CHARMS AND OMENS.

Burning of the Southern Hotel and Kate Claxton's Presence-- Superstitions of John McCullough, Raymond, Joe Jefferson, Sothern, Florence, Booth, Chanfrau, Byron, Thorne, Neilson, Lotta, etc., etc.--Courtaine and Ince 122-143

NOT DOWN IN THE BILL.

Actors who Memorize whole Newspapers--Lovely Peggy--Kean Dying as he Played--Sol. Smith's Funny Adventure--A Masher made Serviceable--Charlotte Cushman and the Colored Bell-Boy who brought Down the House--The Call-Boy's Revenge--The Lecturer, Trick Candle and Trap Door--An English Performance of William Tell 144-161

THE ILLUSIONS OF THE STAGE.

Mrs. Bellamy and Mr. St. Leger in Dublin--Rousseau's Description of Paris Opera--Modern Mechanism--Producing Steam, Fire, Thunder, Lightning, etc.--Olive Logan and her Jewels--Snow Storm in "The Two Orphans"--Rain in "Hearts of Oak"--Rivulets in "Danites"--Funny Inventory of "Property" in a London Theatre 162-182

MORE OF THE MYSTERIES.

The Property-Man and his Duties--Sunlight--Moonlight-- Twinkling of Stars--Ocean Waves--Fire in "Phoenix" and "Streets of New York"--Full Description of the Famous Raft Scene 183-194

THE ARMY OF ATTACHES.

Broken Down or "Crushed" Actors as Door-Keepers--The Treasurer of the Theatre--The Usher--Orchestra and Leader--Stage Manager --The Scenic Artist--The Stage Carpenter, Supes and Minor Attaches, and Last but not Least the Call-Boy 195-205

STAGE STRUCK.

The Young Man from Cahokia--The Box of Gags--Stage Struck Girls of Louisville--The College Graduate from Illinois--"The Warrior Bowed His Crested Head"--The "N. G." Curtain--Marie Dixon's Failure--Mrs. H. M. Lewis, of Charleston, Duped by Schwab & Rummel--Harry Russell Pseudo "Manager"--A Colored Troop's Curious Epistle 206-226

THE REHEARSAL.

CANDIDATES FOR SHORT CLOTHES.

Advertising for Ballet Girls--Salaries Paid them--Who Apply-- Where the Can-Can Flourishes--The Ups and Downs of a Ballet Girl's Life--The Nautch Dancers 241-250

TRAINING BALLET DANCERS.

Interviewing Sig. J. F. Cardella--The French School Theatre La Scala--Amount of Practice Required--The American Ballet-- Salaries of Premieres, Coryphees, etc.--The Time Required--A Little Fond and Foolish at Times 251-263

PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS.

The Trials and Tribulations of the Gawky Young Dramatist-- English, French and American Playwrights--The Desire for Foreign Plays--Bartley Campbell's Christmas Story 264-275

MASHERS AND MASHING.

Gunakophagists or Woman-Eaters--Corner Loafers--Mashers of the Profession--Female Mashers--The Blonde Beauties of the Leg Drama--Model Letter--Lillian Russell's Escapades--"Patti" and the Midget "Foster"--The Old Masher Squeezed--The Girl in Red Tights at Uhrig's Cave--Music and Mashing 276-295

THE MAIDEN AND THE TENOR.

Ambleleg--His Soul Full of Art and Throat Full of Music--Miss Justaytine the Pink of Beauty and Perfection of Belleship--The Chorus Singer Mashed on the Maiden--The Mash Mutual--The Brother and Lover Mash the Tenor--Suit for ,000 and the Compromise 296-302

FISHING FOR FREE PUFFS.

A First-Class Puff in a Leadville Paper--All Anxious to Appear in Print--Various Ways of Puffing--Sending Photos--Diamond Robberies--Falling Heir to a Fortune, etc.--Minnie Palmer's Artless Display of Underwear--The Abbott Kiss--Catherine Lewis Fling--Emelie Melville's Presents to Critics--The Morning Buzzard and the Evening Crow 303-314

THE ACTRESS AND THE INTERVIEWER.

All Performers must Meet the Interviewing Fiend--How the Interviewer is Received by Patti, Nilsson, Gerster, Kellogg, Cary, Hauk, Abbott, Bernhardt, Morris, Modjeska, Neilson, Anderson, Davenport, Mitchell, Lotta, and Others 315-319

A FEW FOOT-LIGHT FAVORITES.

CHINESE AND JAPANESE THEATRICALS.

Great Length of the Play--Description of a Chinese Theatre-- The Prompter--The Audience--The Actors--The Musicians-- Japanese Theatres--No "Reserved Seats"--Prices of Admission --Side Shows 343-352

OPERA AND OPERA SINGERS.

Palmo, the Father of Italian Opera in America--Interview with Col. Mapleson--The Cost of Rigging a Company--What it Costs Every Time the Curtain is Rung Up--Mme. Grisi's Superstition-- The Best Operas--Salaries of Singers--Neilson and the Diamond Merchant 353-366

THE MINSTREL BOYS.

Emmet, Brower, Whitlock and Pelham among the Earliest--Pot-Pie Herbert--Daddy Rice and Jim Crow--Zip Coon--Coal Black Rose --My Long Tail Blue--Early Days of George Christy--Minstrel Men Generally Improvident--Minstrel Men as Mashers--Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels--The Boys at Rehearsal 367-381

PANTOMIME.

George L. Fox, the King--G. H. Adams, his Successor--Boxing Night in London 382-388

VARIETY DIVES AND CONCERT SALOONS.

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