. Theatrical and circus life;. worse, may not beproof against anything like demonstrative weather;the hotel fare is bad, and the accommodations no bet-ter; the mayor, the town council, and sometimes theprominent citizens, must have free passes ; the localpapers want hatfuls of complimentary tickets, andwith a house half filled with dead-heads and one-thirdof the benches empty, they must, in the face of mostdiscouraging circumstances, appear as entertainers ormeet with the severest denunciations of the pigmypress and the most galling criticism from the ungrate-ful army of dead-heads. Now and th
. Theatrical and circus life;. worse, may not beproof against anything like demonstrative weather;the hotel fare is bad, and the accommodations no bet-ter; the mayor, the town council, and sometimes theprominent citizens, must have free passes ; the localpapers want hatfuls of complimentary tickets, andwith a house half filled with dead-heads and one-thirdof the benches empty, they must, in the face of mostdiscouraging circumstances, appear as entertainers ormeet with the severest denunciations of the pigmypress and the most galling criticism from the ungrate-ful army of dead-heads. Now and then an actor or an actress contracts a coldduring a barn-storming tour, and the nomadic life notbeing calculated to aid the healing power of medicines,the seeds of death are sown, and soon the played-outplayer sinks from sight, and without causing a singleripple upon the surface of the great sea of life, goes ON THE ROAD, 465 down to the grave. The agent and the manager, too,share this danger, and altogether the life of profes-. sional people when on the road is not so bright orjoyful as to cause any one acquainted with their trialsand troubles to envy them their lot. CHAPTER XXXIV THE GREEN-EYED AND OTHEB MONSTERS. To the outside world the players life seems alwaysbright — a rose-carpeted path with sunshine foreverstraying about the feet and breath of the sweetestgardens always in their atmosphere. To the playersthemselves, notwithstanding the hard work, it has thesame beauty and fascinations that other professionshave for those who have entered them. Lotta receiv-ing the wild plaudits of her newsboy admirers—forall over the country the street Arabs express theirwillingness to do ennythin in de world fur Lottie —accepting the baskets of flowers they send her with thepennies they have pooled, and doing her utmost to re-spond to a score of encores in response to their appealsis as eharming a little picture of perfect happiness andcontentment as we could find anywhere. Judic
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