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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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rnecks and rasping their throats in a welcoming chorus to their guests. It was unfortunate for the visitors that King Kosmos had a beautiful little princess of a daughter calledFantasia (Miss Gracie Plaisted), with a voice that rip-pled and rolled in music, earthly as the bulbuTs notesand celesl i;tl as the songs of the spheres ; and, of course,foolish little Caprice had to go and fall in love withher and simx innumerable sweet songs to her, all ofwhich only got poor old Pin and his friends into allsorts of trouble. This they finally managed to get outof by returning to mother earth in a gorgeously-ap-pointed flying ship, as grand as Cleopratras galley.Before decamping, however, Moonland was visited inevery part, and its gardens of silver-tinged foliage, itscrystal palaces, that made pale Lunas light more bril- BEHIND THE SCENES. 85 liant still, its icy mountains with mass of frostage,in and about which the ballet wound in the gracefulrhythm of Les Flocons de Niege, were all taken in,
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MILLIE LA FONTE. and notwithstanding an occasional hitch in getting thepanorama around, everything in this new and gleamingsphere was really glorious for a first-night visit. CH.A PTEB VII. i\ ill l: DRESSING-ROOM These same people who appear grotesque, and out of the pair of ordinary every-dav existence on thestage, are nearly always the most unroinantie iwul reale-tic-looking folks in the world when you meet them onthe street. The extraordinary metamorphosis theythrough to arrive at an appearance suitable for pre-sentation before the foot-lights is a secret of the dreing-room. In the privacy of this carefully guardedapartment street clothes are Laid aside, and what ismore wonderful still, faces, eyes, and hands and lowerlimbs, too, very frequently, are subjected to procesthat produce the most remarkable results. Anybodywho has seen Nat Goodwin, of Hobbies reputation,will readily understand that it takes :i pretty extensivetransformation to change his appearance from that ofthe man t

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