Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-05-02
WORSE THAN DUDES.
THE STAGE DOOR GIRL is A STERN
REALITY TO ACTRESSES.

Tho s,age poor p,aa poc,.ro, q, n.
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| wv '"o o"o VINO h""n's '"'
Exits OF Iheaters Is Generally an En-
| thusiastic Bit of n Maiden.
pa'e reau many remarkable stories con
corning crowds OF men of all ages and sizes
who swarm about the stage doors of thea.
| ters, staring the actresses out of counte.
| nance and making themselves generally
disagreeable and obnoxious. But the stage
door dude lives only in the newspapers.
have been on the stage--well. | won't say
how many years--but in all that time
have never seen one of his kind There is.
however, being who baunts the stage
door. This individn., nrerars sunabin,,
matinee days, Is young. pretty. well
dressed, aud possesses an alarming cara
mel appetite In short, it is the sister. or
possibly the daughter. of the stage door
dude. He, IL he ever existed, belongs to a
past generation.
She goes to the matinee. falls in love
with the hero, sympathizes with the hero
Inc, hates the villain, pigeles ut the come.
dian (the stage door girl never lauphs) and
says she thinks the inrenue .siust dear y
Then, when the curtain falls upon the 70.
united lovers with the villain Skinned off
to Botany bay. the galleys or Sing SING.
according 10 his location. she deyours her
last caramel and hurries to the stage door.
And she does yot 90 to the stage door IN
see the hero the leading invent, or the
handsome villain. but. astonishing fnct. to
see the heroine. the inpenue or the SON
brettel This door, which is to her ewes n
gilded portal, il usually located down the
dingiest, dirtiest alley In the neighborhood
But il does not look dinpy or dirty Ia her
She does not even see the garbage barrels.
tin cans and general eloominess of tho
place. Her Mecca Is that door through
which she must pass-that radiant vision
whom she has inst seen folded ia tho baart
of the hero.
l have known girls to stand for an bour
or more in a pouring rain with nndomn.
ened ardor merely to see n (ionre com.
pletely enyeloped in mack ntosb veil and
umbrella hurry past them and disappear
In Baltimore are two prettv sisters
who, / am assured. are cultivated and
refined young women But these oirls
have IL perfect craze for actresses Every
Sunday they are seen nj the nrincina1 roii-
way station Of the town to welcome The
coming and speed the parting actress al.
DAFSOnHl
ances In the profession They ore nor.
fectly content to worship from afar Rnt
they must see their divinity and And ont
II she is .as pretty off the STAGE as She il
on it.n They USUALLY sit in n front eea+ at
the theater and stare Mt her tbrougb thai,
opera glasses. This TO a sensitive octress
Is something maddenipy If nv onv cbmnca
she happens to catch sight of them How.
ever, there are many people who do this
same thing. and who are not stoga door
girls, and no doubt the girls are instifed
In thinking that they have n RIGHT tn do
So But cannot see what pleasure thev
derive from n minute insnect;on Of rouo,e
and grease paint,
TO return to the stage door girl IT. will
REQUIRE a great deal of Appointment IN con.
vince her that the hero and heroina wa ,,r,.
madly in love with each other in nrivafe
life A pretty girl once said tn an actress
of my acquaintance. SIS II reollv nossi}1e
that you do not love Mr. B-p,; Ger
tainly not" replied my friend. "WelI I
can't understand it," said the Young lady
"He must be in love with Won or he
couldn't act his part SO well.u H. was time
and words wasted trying to convince This
on other subjects, sane Young woman thai
Mr. b. was a devoted husband and "a
ther, with about as much sentimental re-
gard for my friend as he had for the table
over which he smoke n certain linz tho
sword with which he fought the villain or
any other stage property.
The stage door girls room is usuallv
decorated with photographs of her favor
ties. and she il not always contantad ,,ith
n mere nhotogranb .+ro..a -.
of tbensalyo, ,,,,,.,, ao,, -
3,,rr.-i.I Ill - 100 u"s rom
49, ~ s.'i9, )" ~" .ho ieq"es1 Ihao they
return .hehi with thelr autograph.
All sorts OF questions are asked in these
notes inns one wants lock of hair, an
o'her 10 Know VINO makes her dresses.
"a anu know OF one glri, more curious than
.ne rest VINO wished to know the name of
heI aiVlnltys corset maker.
bnt the letters received by actresses are
not ali from lnqulsitive girls whose eyes
nave been dazzied by the glare of the foot
iights' sometimes they come from sensi
pie tnoughtlui women who wish to tell of
al evening pleasantly, perhaps profitably,
sPehb at the tneater ana TO speak words of
ana encouragement. These
are Always pleasing to the actresses who
receive ,hem. one word OF honest appre-
liatioh IS worth Whole pages of gusb, and
no one Is SO quick TO appreciate this as a
woman whose me Is passed in an honest
,trusSle 10 achieVe success and possibly
Instruction on the stage
- tfIeha Oh mime received the following
note, accompanied by u Bible and bunch |
u Vioiets' lroia dear Old lady:
MY DEAR MIss-l am sure you will not be
'hShNcu ny IN oiu woman sending YOU this |
"a anu NV ocSe "lst4es. nave many times |