New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-16
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TIE orchestra has been playing for five min
mt, when from incx.,,cahie and undreamed
p@csS cones this surgiug mob OF seventeenth
Cci.'cry rags and ribbons men and danes
7 ~ stroll into hooks and corners No ono says
q Ncrd 10 them they chat in low tone among
themselves The Men and women seem to know
cac1 ether and Dandy jokes Of significance to
q nseiveS. SO GHconCe:ced are they all with
t. business before them that Il seems as il
surely the stage manager, or some one upon
MAom should devoivc that duty would come
a q whip them into line. No one comes. The
o.or,etra pauses. TWO long rings are tric1 by
IL" curtain leil. Then the Hotel dc BOurgoCne
/, ,'ened to the audience and the Pariyians If
a.'ilno's time. In twOs and threes they flock
Ii III the apparent inattention was stored
Consciousness. Constant practice had made
habit Of necessity. It is with the scene in
t. bakery Of Ragucneau in the second act. and
tae elaborate batilc-scccc IN The forth act Of
"CylarO"
The cal. boy always calls them from their
rooms for when not in the scene enacted the
rurtrS are not allowed TO Toll idly in the way of
sag hands. property men. electric light men
81 actors They retire at once by the shortest
route hack to their quarters, to spend the next
hour in chatting, reading or mapping. That Is
the routine from the time the cribbage peg Is
poked in the hole under In till it is put back
under out" and the super slips away into
Gark0css and the wOrkaday world.
Sometimes he pauses with the busy door
keeper to register a request or an order. 1t
may be to leave a request for leave from the
staec manager. an excuse for absence, or to ask
The attention Of the wardrobe woman for some
detail Of mendinE alteration in one Of his
costumes on Saturday afternoon, late though
tn hour is. the supers are slow to go. Their
la~oing manner is significant After the CON
von. garden has been dissirated into canvas
fla AGAINST the brick sdn;s. and the tree that
SUPPORTED Cyrano in his las. hour has been up
rooted and sped sllyward at a ropes end. table
IS placed IN the middle Of the stage near the
foo,Ichts. under the illuminating rays of a
bunch light and the treasurer with his tin
boz full If crecnback-stuffed envelopes and his
autograph album OF receipts. sits himself TO pay
the 10,
Every one signs tho book but envelopes are
given directly to the principals only. The sal
aries Of the supers are handed to the super-cap-
tain who pays his men off, less 30 cents IN each
case which is his commission for giving thefn
their places and retaining them there TINS Is
custom and precedeHt OF the super proress'oh'
There are two other actors without lines in
Mr. Mansfeld's "CyranO de Bergerac They
are Tom and Jerry. They made their dramatic
debut with Mr.. Mansfeid's company. but they
are old stagers in the amusement world Last
summer they spent in England as features IN a
circus They the beautiful snow-wni'e
Arabian horses which draw in Roxane's gilt ana
purple coach Jerry is a padback circus
horse Tom is a bareback horse. and Tor
mcrly belonged to Ed" Stokes the Famous
circus rider Tom is a thoroughbred ARABIAN
stallion and took first prize in his class at the
Horse Show in 1898