Identifier: theatricalcircus00je (find matches)
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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to get him to begin or finish a play, when there was ajammed house waiting to applaud him at every turn in Fritz. But Emmet has crossed the Eubicon againand once more his worldful of friends rejoice iu hishappiness and growing fortune. He is not the onlyone in the profession who has been addicted to the cupthat cheers and inebriates at the same time. I haveheard that a pretty and popular soubrette must haveher glass of brandy between the acts, and that an actoralready at the top of the ladder is succumbing to theseductive and rosy liquid. Still liquor has not madenearly the number of victims in the ranks of thetheatrical class that it has in other professions, and itis only alluded to here to illustrate a comical incident 120 IN THE WINGS. that once occurred during the engagement of a bur-lesque combination in Kansas City. It was not knownuntil six oclock at night that the comedian of thecomedy was in a sad state of intoxication somewherethrough the town. Parties were sent out at once
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SOBERING A COMEDIAN, to look him up. They did not succeed in finding himuntil 7 : 30 when they hurried him to the theatre. Itwas a terrible job to get him into his stage-clothes andto keep his head steady and his eyes open long enough m >THT& WfN&S. 121 to allow his friends to make him up for his part. Bythe time this had been done the impatient audienceshouted and whistled and stamped so violently that atlast the manager was obliged to ring the curtain up.Mr. Comedian was in the wings reluctantly acceptingthe remedies provided by his friends, while they waitedfor his cue to go on. He was fairly sober when he

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