St. Paul daily globe., 1892-12-26


lives only in the newspapers. declares
writer in the New York Herald. l
have been on the Stage-weil. / won't
say how many years-but in all that
time l have never seen one of his kind.
There is. however, a being who hauntS
the stage door. This individual prefers
sunsbIny matinee days, is young, pretty,
well dressed, and possesses an alarming
caramel appetite. In short. it is the
sister, or possibly the daughter. of the
stage door dude. He, if he ever existed,
belonged to past generation.
She goes to the matinee. falls in love
with the hero, SympathlZeS with the
heroine, hates the villain, giggles at the
comedian Qhe stage-door girl never
laughs) and says she thinks the ingenue
"just dear" Then when the curtain
falls upon the reunited lovers, with the
villain shipped off to Botany bay, the
galeyS, or Sing Sing. according to bis
10 alton, she devourS her last caramel
and hurrie to the stage door. And she
does not go 10 the stage door to see the
hero, the leading juvenile or the hand
some villain. but, astonishing fact, to
see the heroine, the ingenue or the SOU
brette! This door. which is to her eyes
a gilded portal, is usually located down
the dngieSt, dirtieSt alley in the neigh
borhOod. But it does not look dingy or
dirty to her. She does not even see the
garbage barrels, tin cans and general
glOOminesS of the place. Her Mecca is
that door through which She must pass
that radiant vision whom she has just
seen folded to the heart of the hero.
| have known girls 10 stand for an
hour or more in pouring rain with un
dampened ardOr merely to see figure
completely enveloped in Macintosh.
veil and umbrella hurry past them and
disappear.
Two of a Kind in Baltimore.
In Baltimore are two sisters whom. /
am assured, are cultivated and refined
young women. But these girls have
perfect craze for actresses. Every Sun
day they are seen at the principal rail-
way station of the town to welcome the
coming and speed the parting actress.
although they have no personal
acquantances in the profession. They
are perfectly content to worship from
afar. But they must see their divinity
and find out if she is ''aS pretty off the
stage as she is on it," They usually sit
in front seat at the theater and stare
at her through their opera glasses. This
to sensitive actress is something mad
denin9, If by any chance she happens
to catch sight of them. However, there
are many people who do this same
thing and who are not stage door girls,
and no doubt the girls are justified in
thinking that they have right to do so.
But | cannot see what pleasure they
derive from minute inspection OF
Ouge and grease paint.
70 return to the stage door girl. 1t
will require great deal of argument to
convince her that the hero and heroine
are not madly in love with each other in
private life. A pretty girl once said to
an actress OF my acquaintance, us 1t
really possible that you do not love Mr..
B-?" "Certainly not" replied my
friend. "Well, L can't understand it,"
said the young lady. "He must be in
love with you or he couldn't act his part
so we'll" 1t was time and words wasted
trying to convince this, on other SUBJ
jectS, sane young woman that Mr.. B
was devoted husband and father, with
about as much sentimental regard for
my friends as he had for the table over
which he spoke certain line. the sword
with which he fought the villain, or any
other stage property.
Wanted Her Divinity's slipper.
The stage door girls room is usually
decorated with photographs of her
favorites, and she is not always con-
tented with mere photograph. Act
resses receive photographs of themselves
every day from admirng girls, with the
request that they retu I'll them with
their autograph. This is not always the
limit, either. All sorts OF peculiar re-
quests are made. Here is a copy of a
note recently received by well-known
New York actress:
Dear Miss: | have seen you great
many times and think you are just
lovely. am sure you will grant the
little request | am going to make. viii
you please send me shoe that you
have worn on the stage? Of course, |
do not want one that you need now.
but one that you have no further use for
will be most highly, priced by me. L