. Theatrical and circus life;. heeks, and they do so to his full satisfaction ;there is genuine rain in the shipwreck scene of TheHearts of Oak ; a plentiful fall of the beautiful snowfor The Two Orphans ; a perfect reproduction of amountain rivulet for The Danites ; steamboat andrailroad explosions of a realistic character in every-thing : an almost horizonless sea for the great raftscene in The World ; and gorgeous coloring, richfurniture, choice bric-a-brac, rare paintings and theLord only knows what, for the thousand and onemelodramatic and society plays that are now floodingthe stage. The
. Theatrical and circus life;. heeks, and they do so to his full satisfaction ;there is genuine rain in the shipwreck scene of TheHearts of Oak ; a plentiful fall of the beautiful snowfor The Two Orphans ; a perfect reproduction of amountain rivulet for The Danites ; steamboat andrailroad explosions of a realistic character in every-thing : an almost horizonless sea for the great raftscene in The World ; and gorgeous coloring, richfurniture, choice bric-a-brac, rare paintings and theLord only knows what, for the thousand and onemelodramatic and society plays that are now floodingthe stage. Then there are gems apparantly richenough to have come from the treasuries of Khediveor Sultan, and lobes so redolent of royalty in color 16(J THE ILLUSIONS OF THE STAGE. and material that the female portion of the audience is almost driven to distraction in admiring and cov-eting them. Little docs the average lady patron ofthe theatre imagine that the finery she covets is oftenthe product of the artistes own needle, and that the. JOHN T. RAYMOND. gaiety and glory of an actresss career — with hundredsof admirers pouring diamonds into her lap, and hun-dreds of others feasting upon her charms, while manyhang with reverence upon the words that fall from her THE ILLUSIONS OF THE STAGE. 167 lips — is but the merest of dreams; and that thesister whose professional successes cause her to lookupon the stage as a place of pleasure only, may livein a tenement surrounded by a poor family to whosesupport her life-efforts are devoted; that she has fewadmirers ; that she is pure as the fairest and purestwoman in private life, ami that her only sacrifice ismade to the art which she loves and to which she hasconsecrated herself. There are but few who have not an exaggerated ideaof the value of everything they see upon the is true that many actresses are rich enough to weardiamond necklaces, and to otherwise sprinkle theirpersons with brilliants of the first water; but it isequally tr
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