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T0oiligbts
The many people who sit In front
of the footlights, enchanted by the
drama, with Its music, lights, gowns
and flowers, do not realize that there
Is an aftermath to It all. Unless one
has been behind the scenes, they can
scarcely imagine what transpires there.
In the first place, there are several
dressing rooms to the side or rear of
the stage. If the company Is a small
one, each actor or actress, as the case
may be. has one exclusively, but If the
company is made up of many people
one is apt to have all sorts of com
pany. The dimensions of dressing rooms
Vary in a marked degree, but the one
the Courier representative had the
pleasure of visiting was about seven
feet square. One side was as a low
.shelf running the entire length of the
room. In the middle was a looking
glass, hung so that the bottom edge
would rest on the shelf. It had a long,
conspicuous crack in it, and for some
reason or other, worked a transforma
tion scene every time one looked into
it. Then there was a wash stand in one
corner with wash bowl and pitcher,
and plenty nf Turkish tmvolg, Thin
dressing room was visited at the close
of a'play given in Lincoln a few nights
ago. The occupant, a leading lady,
opened the door and asked. "Who is
there?" and admitted the visitor. Miss
and a lady friend, at once. The
actress had a maid with her, who, she
explained, had just finished rubbing
her with alcohol. "That Is to prevent
me from taking cold," she said. "That
cream," and she pointed to a large tin
box, that contained a white substance,
"is what I rub on my face. I do not
wash my make-up off. but simply rub
this cream on, and then wipe it off on
a towel. It is called theatrical cream.
Did you ever notice that an actres3
usually has good skin? I think it is
because they use so much cold cream."
Meanwhile the visitors had installed
themselves on a small steamer trunk,
and the actress was whisking into her
clothes. The maid was folding up her
gowns, and laying them on a chair.
"You see this is our last night and
we have to pack everything. Isn't this
dressing room awful? It is not half
as bad as the one I once had in Evans
ville, Ind. We were to open an en
gagement there on Sunday night, but
the theatre we had engaged didn't play
on Sundays, so we had to take the
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other opera house. The dressing rooms
were all down cellar. That Is, In the
basement, and oh! but it was musty
and damp. It gave me the creeps every
time I went down there. We had u
lovely room in Denver, didn't we. Nel
lie?" Nellie, the maid, nodded her head,
and went on packing.
"This is my robe I wore in the lust
act," she remarked, picking up a once
white cashmere gown. "It's horribly
dirty now," and she certainly told the
truth, for It was quite soiled, although
seen from the box. it had looked al
most spotless.
By this time she had donned a shirt
waist and a golf skirt, and was put
ting her collar on.
"I won't mind my belt, because I will
huve-my Jacket on, and It is only a
little way to the hotel."
She .was picking up pins, rings, and
other-kittle bits of Jewelry, and drop-plng-Mhem
into her little chatelatni
bag.:
"lcirry a little bit of everything In
hertSand besides I need the Dln3
wh'enf l?dress in the mornins. Don't
you think I dress quickly? I learned
that 'at- boarding school. I was al
vays:too fond of my breakfast to miss
it. My pocketbook where Is It?" she
asked, fumbling around in her grip.
"Nellie sometimes forgets and packs
It In the bottom of my trunk."
Search failed to reveal It, so sh sat
down on the floor, and unstrupued the
little trunk that we had been sitting
on.
"Yes, I have It," she suld, laughing
inerilly, as she pulled it from a remote
corner of the till. Then we sta'ted.
The stage hands were rolilnjr JP
scenery, a few chords girls sat around
on boxes, laughing awl talking, and
the man who had distinguished hlii
self as a hero in the play a few
minutes ago, leaned against the wall,
and puffed lazily at a cisurette.
One little chorus girl came out fron
a smaller dressing room than we had
been In and said:
"Ys, I've just finished dressing
and don't' I look charming? There were
only sixteen to dress In our room."
The theatre was dark except for the
lights on the stage, and the air was
chilly. The girls of the choius or bal
let were strolling oft In pairs to their
hotels, and the more prominent char
acters were Jesting by themselves, as
If this or that one had never been the
character who had fainted so grace
fully a few moments aso. The man
who was supposed to be dead. In the
drama, was here and was very much
alive. And thus they come from the
make believe, back to the real life,
and the play that charms and ofttimes
deludes us, Is only a myth, but the
people, nfter all. are real nn-JI have
their little trials and tribulations us
well as the best of us.
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