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Title: Theatrical and circus life;
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Jennings, John Joseph, 1853-1909. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Theater Circus
Publisher: Chicago, Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rmans Sell - - - - - 432 The Box Trick, Fig. 1 - - - -• - - - 440 The Box Trick, Fig. 2 - - 441 The Box Trick, Fig. 3 - 441 The Box Trick, Fig. 4 442 The Box Trick, Fig. 5 443 On the Boad 465 The McCall Tragedy 472 Blackmailing an Actress ------- 474 Jealousy - 476 Edward Kendall 478 Out in the Cold 480 John Wilkes Booth 485 Scene from Grand Duchess ------- 493 John W. Norton 496 Mary Anderson (Colored Plate) 496 A Candidate in Regalia 504 Muck-a-Muck ----- 508 The Circus World 512 Twenty-five Thousand Dollar Beauty 517 Adam Forepaugh - - 520 Beating the Circus - 523 W. H. Donaldson 525 Catalina Georgios Frightful Death - 526 Bareback Riding - - -■-■..- - - - - 537 Trapeze ----------- 539 Mdme.Lasalle -.---;- 542 Annie Livingstone (Colored Plate) - 545 Circus Eiders - - - - . - - - -- - 546 Dan Bice -- 550 A Human Pyramid _.._••_ 562 Leaping 565 Bicycle Riding --------- 571 Giant and Giantess 579, 580 Performing Elephants 596 Jumbo ----- 599 Curtain - - = - - = - - - - - 608
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STAGE OT A MODERN THEATRE. CHAPTER I. A PRELIMINARY PEEP. Anybody can get into the auditorium of a theatreby paying an admission fee reaching from twenty-fivecents up to $1.50, and the sawdust precincts of thecircus may be penetrated for the modest sum of fiftycents ; but behind the curtain of the theatre and beyond the screened door through which circus attractions enterthe exhibition arena, are sacred places, with secretsthat are so valuable to their owners that they dare notfor less than a small fortune allow the public to viewor even to understand them. A general knowledgeof the simplicity of theatrical and circus tricks — ofthe delusions that make up the stock in trade of show-men generally — would destroy their value as salablearticles, and make everybody a little Barnum or JackHaverly of his own, with ability to furnish himselfwith amusement at home, while the former masto-donic managers could only look on and weep at theeducational facilities with which the country was ove

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