. Theatrical and circus life;. CLARA MORRIS. check with, and the bottle out of which he dips theimaginary ink, all come from the property-room, andgo back to it again after the act is over. A list of thearticles required for a play is furnished the property- 178 THE BlONfl OI I hi: BTAOE. man when a piny is to be put on, and those articles hemust have when the prompter calls or sends for the property-man forgets, and then thereis trouble in the camp. It is related that having for-. HELEN DINGEON. gotten to provide a Juliet with her vial of poison, intime, the article bein
. Theatrical and circus life;. CLARA MORRIS. check with, and the bottle out of which he dips theimaginary ink, all come from the property-room, andgo back to it again after the act is over. A list of thearticles required for a play is furnished the property- 178 THE BlONfl OI I hi: BTAOE. man when a piny is to be put on, and those articles hemust have when the prompter calls or sends for the property-man forgets, and then thereis trouble in the camp. It is related that having for-. HELEN DINGEON. gotten to provide a Juliet with her vial of poison, intime, the article being called for as the actress wasabout to go on the stage, the property-man snatchedup the first thing that looked like a vial that he got hiseyes on. It was a bottle from the prompters desk,. THE ILLUSIONS OF THE STAGE. 17£ and when Juliet placed the awful draught to her lipsand took a pull at the bottle, she discovered to herhorror that she had swallowed a dose of ink. The ac-tress, who tells the story herself in her autobiography,said, she wanted to swallow a sheet of blotting-paper, when she made the inky discovery. I find in Miss Logans book from which I have beforequoted in this chapter, the following funny inventory ofproperties furnished a new lessee of the Drury LaneTheatre, London: Spirits of wine, for flames andapparitions, £12 2s. ; three and one-half bottles oflightning, £— ; one snow-storm, of finest French paper,3s. ; two snow-storms of common French paper, 2s. ;complete sea, w
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