Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . ^l^-K^tifo,..-^ II. Photo-Engraved ffam Rwi and-Ink Copy Executed by S, it. Webster, Moors Business College, Atlanta, Was quite B trade driven l.\ the in thi copy ing of plays especially he foundconstant employment, Each theater usu ally had a copyist attached tO its staff. Sometimes he was the prompter, who thusadded to his emoluments, and at others anentirely independent member of the com-pany- W inn a plaj was sect pted several?lean copies bad to be made of the com- Pl< te work, one for the prompters use and ?|| - foi presi rvation in case of a
Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . ^l^-K^tifo,..-^ II. Photo-Engraved ffam Rwi and-Ink Copy Executed by S, it. Webster, Moors Business College, Atlanta, Was quite B trade driven l.\ the in thi copy ing of plays especially he foundconstant employment, Each theater usu ally had a copyist attached tO its staff. Sometimes he was the prompter, who thusadded to his emoluments, and at others anentirely independent member of the com-pany- W inn a plaj was sect pted several?lean copies bad to be made of the com- Pl< te work, one for the prompters use and ?|| - foi presi rvation in case of part had also to bi copied ofl foi each individual player, and the directions for the I el property from the fact that at one lime they had asort (1f an exchange in Onion Square,where they used to gather daily and veryoften work among the heir mugs on the Endi od, beer was as essential o fluid tothe professional copyist as ink. Me was. as a rule, a decidedly Minify and grubbyperson, given to ehronie alcoholism, and as careless
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