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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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ems they wear come from the cheap stock of articleskept in the theatrical property-room. An amusingstory is told by Olive Logan, who was an actress,about the false value placed upon stage jewels. While I was fulfilling a round of theatrical engage-ments in the South, during the war, says MissLogan, I was compelled by * military necessity, topack up my jewels and send them to Cincinnati. Ofcourse there were a number of stage trinkets in thebag as well as some little jewelry of real value, but asit happened a fabulous idea had got afloat of the valueof my little trinkets, and I was offered large sums forthe carpet sack, just as it stood, after I had packedit to send it to Cincinnati. Ill give you ten thousand dollars for it withoutopening, said one gentleman ; I want those ear-ringsfor my wife? No, I answered, no; those things were givenme in France, and I shouldnt like to part withthem. 168 THE ILLUSIONS OF THE STAGE. Are the ear-rings in here? * Yes, I answered. And the bracelet? Yes.
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KATHERINE ROGERS. Fifteen thousand — will you? No, no, I answered, and the matter ended. Icouldnt help laughing, for truly I might have made asharp bargain if I had wished. Somebody would have THE ILLUSIONS OF THE STAGE. 169 been sold, and that somebody not myself. I returnedto Cincinnati after my trip to Nashville, and therefound my effects awaiting me in good order. One dayin the Burnet House I was accosted by a pleasant-looking gentleman, who informed me that he had takencharge of the bag from Louisville to Cincinnati. * Did not Mr. send it by express? I asked. * No. I was coming up, and he thought it best toentrust it to me. Im very much obliged to you, I said. Indeed, you have cause to be, he said, good-naturedly. * I give you my word its the last time Illhave on my mind the charge of fifty thousand dollarsworth of diamonds. After an English lady of rank returned from thecontinent, she found her trunk robbed of its jewels.Detectives traced the jewels to a London pawnshop,where

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