. Theatrical and circus life;. THE AESTHETIC DRAMA. denly one day with a lot of her jewels. The call-boycomes last in the list of attaches, but he is not at allleast. If you believe all he tells you, like the usher,you will think him a great man, for he often boasts ofplaying poker with John McCullough, of taking Lottaout for a drive, or of rolling ten-pins with Salvini orsome equally illustrious representative of the highestdramatic art. A call-boy gets about $10 a week, andin five cases out of ten he isnt worth ten cents. CHAPTER XIV. STAGE-STRUCK, George McManus, treasurer of the Grand Oper
. Theatrical and circus life;. THE AESTHETIC DRAMA. denly one day with a lot of her jewels. The call-boycomes last in the list of attaches, but he is not at allleast. If you believe all he tells you, like the usher,you will think him a great man, for he often boasts ofplaying poker with John McCullough, of taking Lottaout for a drive, or of rolling ten-pins with Salvini orsome equally illustrious representative of the highestdramatic art. A call-boy gets about $10 a week, andin five cases out of ten he isnt worth ten cents. CHAPTER XIV. STAGE-STRUCK, George McManus, treasurer of the Grand Opera House, St. Louis, iu addition to being a good story-teller, is as fond of a practical joke as he is of threemeals a day. During the season of 1880—81 George was at the box-office window, one , looking out attlie Dutch Lager beer saloon across the street, andwondering why it was that people were so loud of schooners, when a tall, thin, melancholy, Ilamlet-!ike young fellow, with tin; air and clothes of rusticity,stalked
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