St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-15

est of sporting or theatrical character
While the young ladies of the chorus emit
over dress and current scandal.
''Say, Kittie, got pin?" 'Whoil 40 up
nv back? I'm awful late!' ''M0llie, lend
me some rouge out of your makeup boxP
May II" "Say, who do you think seen
Oh Broadway to-day?" ETC., etc.
At brief intervals head will be stuck |
out of doorway and. after hurried glance |
right and left to see that the coast is clear,
it will be followed by a plump little hgure |
r.; 3fd in pair of silk tights as to the
by no m,,sssNisphere and large shawl as
then dart across This extraordinary, but
me. .liei: ualo doioss Tic ing, appariton will
joining room in search of soneinto an adj
eie or 10 lmpart a choice morsel or>a, arti-
ANA she never stops to knock, her advent
is Invariably hailed with chorus of shriiI
squeals and don't come ms" which sah-
side into a modified ''Oh. it's you, is it?''
on discovering that the intruder is not of
the male sex. From the male dressing
rooms comes occasionally hearty guffaw
which indicates that someone has related
new and particularly racy story.
Then the call-boy comes downstairs
shouting "Quarter hour" ''Quarter hour"
and conversation is suspended during the
last agonies of getting ready. Penetrating
to the interior of one of the dressing rooms
we find huge man weighing 24S pounds
he tells us, robing himself for the character
of a woman. His male attire adorns the
walls on one side of the room, and is in
amusing contrast with the, articles of fem
mime adornment scattered about. His
dresser puts on his stockings and slippers
and then laces him into colossal pair of
cOrSets.
Then huge pair of hip-pads are adj
justed and a leviathan hustle, over which is
hooked and fastened a crimson velvet dress.
AS his face and hands were already made
emerged coy little maiden of six feet two,
with that excellent thing in woman."
voice like the great bull of Bashan.
The next apartment contains two young,
slender Smootb-faced fellows, who are to
persOnate fat Dutch soldier and an
obese Irish policeman. They sit in front
OF mirrors making up their faces. One
has in front of him cabinet photograph of
Ben Butler.
He takes piece of wax and sticking it
on the end of his nose moulds it with his
fingers until it assumes the proportions of
the nasal organ of that great candidate. The
bladders under the eyes are made Of the same
material and fashioned in the same way.
Then grease paint is applied to the whole
face, and with darker colors all the lines
and wrinkles on the face in the portrait are
reproduced on the animate mask. A bald
wig is then dOnned and the joining seam
on the forehead blended with grease paint.
A huge padded garment gives rotundty
to the figure, and the boy is transformed
into capital likeness of Butler. The
methods employed by the other are quite
ha nd no
rosy nostrils are made of pink jewelers.
cotton, bits of which are fastened in place
with spirit gum and then pulled and pinched
| into shape. For the rest. the process of
painting and lining the face is the same,
and the padded garment of similar con-
struction but more pointed and less rotund
as to the abdomen. The stars dress by
themselves. The leading comedians
room is a hOspitable mansion, for the rules
in regard to beverages are not enforced as
against stars, who are supposed to have
more discretion, even if they are equally
thirsty as chorus people. Here plug hat
on one hook and a corkscrew on the next
one repose i'll picturesque conjunction, and
row OF plethOric bottles gives promise of
good cheer which is promptly fulfilled.
In large room directly under the front
of the stage. and from which short stair
case leads TO the orchestra. the musicians
are assembling. They take off their heavy
wraps, for the night is cold, and stow them
away, and then add their mite to this min
allure Babel by tuning their various instru-
ments, thus improvisIng Wagnerian SYM
phonies. They are all here-the we'll
known types of the theater band. The
second fiddle unwinds himself from long,
red comforter and reveals the slender fig
ure, long, red-tipped nose and watery eyes
that make it patent that he hasn't been
sober in twenty years.
There are the fat trombone player, the
rakisll- Hooking drummer and last, though
first, the blonde, goOd-]Ooking leader in
dress coat and immaculate shirt front.
There is the tramping of feet and the NOV
ing of heavy objects overhead. Ascending
the stage " e turn into the property room,
which possesses all the characteristics of an
old curiosity shop. Furniture. books, pic
tures pipes. papier-mache limitations of
everything in the heavens above and the
waters beneath are here. Moons and stars
are side by side with hugh fish and cells.
ships and balloons. spears, swords and
truncheons. pistols, etc, etc.
Long iron pans contain harmless yellow
powder in small quantities, which will III
time flash into red and green fires, and a
wheel IulI OIL SnOb lOr rain, piece OF Sn66t-
iron for thunder and magnesium light for
lightning supply the necessaries for the
realistic mimicry of the elements.
While all is in apparent confusion, in
reality everything is in its place and on the
wall hangs property plot" or list of
articles with instructions as to what time,
in what place on the stage and by what
character they will be required. SO that the
property-man knows the order in which his
properties are required and can place his
hand on them in regular succession. The
sta &c carpenter has similar list or plot
Of the scenes to be used and he. with the
stage hands, has everything in readiness to
be put in place quickly and systematically.
The stage manager looks at his clock; it
is 1855. He rings bell, which sounds in
the musicians room. and the call boy flies
down stairs shouting Orchestra i'll, every
body up to begin"
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