The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-08-13

a dress parade Everybody Is arrayed In the costly
raIneu of the production and passes for inspection
girl VIII venture Ny tights too tight here .''
and the order for alteration Will come Then comes
n rehearsal OF stage hands, wien the manager, watch
in hand. figures time. Each piece of scenery
is carried on ana oil, just as VIII happen at the
performance.
IN all this time however mention has been
made of The orchestra Yet this has been practis.
ing under its leader In hall apart However
the producer gives the word, and fine day the
performers find the orchestra in its place, and they
sing their lays 10 lis accompaniment This Is few
days before the initial performances Nothing now
remains but the dress rehearsal. of which there are
possibly three before the first production of the play
somewhere else. The scenery is In It's place: the
company IS garbed In the SpendorS Of its costumery
Every detail OF the production Is gone through
without Interruption. The stage manager and the
dancing directors not before the curtain on
that orcnSon. They behind the scenes, mar
shallng thcr lines of chorus gesticulating, exhort-
Ing harder tlau ever Behind those freshly panied
scenes property men are rushing about. bauling
dismantliug replacing. In the auditorium sits the
nroduccr. mmutablc watch in hand; him sits a
secretary clerk. note book i'll hand ready record
further points Tor cbangc-poIDts for the electrician
for Individual players. for the chorus for everything
bearing the production The ends of this complex
skcn arc being gathered together
At the next dress rehearsal on the following nicht
much Will be found changed The man with the
watch has conceived the whole finale OF some scene
10 be less effective than he wished. In the morning
ii is changed. The time occupied has been. perhaps
twenty minutes too long. So next night it is dimn-
ished by that amount in those places where the SIC
r6ces will most lit. Thus does the book" de.
from l97 pages to the handler ninety. And the
who holds the watch aud who rehearses the
chorus and the principals and the music and the
songs aud makes the engagements and pays the bills
las fashioned 1t under his hand
After the Grst dress rehearsal the company is trans
ported to the "tryout' town of this theatrical occa.
sion. The scenery has been packed and sent By
train the stage carpenter looking after 1t upon
rival In the meantime the posters designed have
been placaTdcd. the advertisements written.
The night has come. the lights low In the nudI-
torium RehearsaS still called each morning and
the work OF change comes that another success muy
he made. The play. the star, the principals the
music the scenery. the dances move alike in their
respective grooves. And then night. with tho
OF experience and time upon Its head
see it in New York. But the stage Is not bare now
ii is rich with scenery and cleaning with color. The
lights are low In the auditorium. From the stage
back amid an opulence OF sheen. advances rich pro-
cession. The bright Young ladies have no pinned up
pettcoats now They creatures OF effulgence and
falryland We see that the chrysalls has change
and is now n butterfly she Is luttering her wlDf
The production has been made.