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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
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had accepted the engagement without parental knowlege or consent, and when they learned of my success they at once put a decided and impressive veto upon any further efforts in the direction of the professional stage. That first experience was not, of course, as abundant in opportunities for observation as later experiences have been. The world behind the footlights —the mimic world as it is called — is a realm of the most startling and pleasing kind. Not only is there food for wonder in what the eye tails upon, but the people who furnish the fun for the world are often among themselves as prolific of pleasantry as if they expected the applause of a full house to follow their jokes. They say and do the strangest things, and for a visitor who is investigating the mysteries of their surroundings, often make the time as lively and the surroundings as enjoyable as it is possible for really clever and good-natured people to do. The best time to go behind the scenes is during the engagement of a
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6 BELLE HOWITT IN BLACK CROOK. (73) 74 BEnixn Tin: SCENES. burlesque or comic opera company, and I will introduce the reader to a happy crowd of this kind that I once found myself in. In 1ST! the Kiralfy's brought out their spectacular burlesque entitled "A Trip to the Moon", and I had the pleasure, during its run, of dropping in behind the scenes of a Western theatre one night to have a peep at the pictures there presented. Now, the moon is something like two hundred and eighty thousand miles from here — that lihgt; the one reputed to be made of green cheese, and having phases as numerous as the occasions that ring the April skies with rainbows. But the Kiralfy's moon was in another firmament, shining out amid stars that, when they wink their twinkling eyes or shuffle their shining feet, as they do frequently, the celestial shiners have got to put on their cloud ulsters, and sit down while the lachrymose eyes of the heavens give up their tears. That is why it was raining torrents the night I went beh

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