. Theatrical and circus life;. the disaster was made known, and the re-sult was that the gay young men would comenear the stage-door no more, and that the sweetlysusceptible creature known as the ballet girl wasobliged to go home alone, supperless. Well, one daythe girls found the artist asleep against his paint-tablewith a half emptied pitcher of beer by his side. Thiswas their opportunity. One of the girls who was of adecorative Oscar-Wilde-like turn of mind got a smallbrush while another held the colors, and in ten minutesthey had that mans face painted so that he would passfor a whole stoc
. Theatrical and circus life;. the disaster was made known, and the re-sult was that the gay young men would comenear the stage-door no more, and that the sweetlysusceptible creature known as the ballet girl wasobliged to go home alone, supperless. Well, one daythe girls found the artist asleep against his paint-tablewith a half emptied pitcher of beer by his side. Thiswas their opportunity. One of the girls who was of adecorative Oscar-Wilde-like turn of mind got a smallbrush while another held the colors, and in ten minutesthey had that mans face painted so that he would passfor a whole stock of scenery ; the tattooed Greek wasa mere five-cent chromo alongside of him, and a SiouxIndian with forty pounds of war-paint on would be aten-cent side-show beside a twelve-monster-shows-in- AT THE STAGE-DOOE. 47 one-imder-a-single-canvas exhibition. In this elaboratebut undecorative condition the scene painter wanderedoff to a neiohborino; saloon, the wonder and merrimentof all who saw him. He did not understand the cause.
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