ILLUSTRATIONS
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Plays are Put up in Packages Frontis
First catch your play 23
If actors roamed about at will 31
A Stalwart Individual pushing a church 45
The guild of Annanias 51
Anna Held bathing in milk 55
Sometimes things really do happen to actors 67
The Theatrical Women's Parker Club 79
It is very difficult to identify a good play 103
A woman cut her play in half 109
Clyde Fitch's ability to work 129
Augustus Thomas shouts instructions 137
Eugene Walter was lodging upon a park bench 143
Margaret Mayo built a villa 161
The malignant disease 165
"You're William A. Brady, ain't you?" 171
A wrinkled old lady confided her desire 175
How sweet to meet one's own image 183
The Great White Way is a recumbent letter I 193
The actor and the rest of the world 199
Allan Dale came three nights running 203
Gets eighteen dollars 209
If actors really "felt their parts" 229
The first time the director has seen them 251
The interruption came on the spot 255
Matches that cannot be lit 259
Ensconced in a swing and two silk stockings 263
Thought seems as material a thing as a handball 267
Gillette flicked the ashes from his cigar 271
Lady Macbeth swore that he grew during the performance 281
A playwright whose stock has soared a hundred points in a single evening 289
A Boston audience at train time 295
Trilby died in every known way 299
The author—as you imagine him, and as he is 303
Venus rose from the sea 319
Danced before a statue of Antony until it bit her 323
You need bring to a vaudeville theatre nothing but the price of admission 327
Their agents search every capital of Europe 335
Known as a stock company 349
Master Betterton had his nerves shaken 357
The actress giving time to dress-makers 361
Evening up matters on his books 369
The great actors of an earlier time 385
A play censor with a club 391
Reputable scoundrels kill by machinery 399
Comstockians wear blinders 403
The peculiarities of royal love-making 413
The lady may have come to prepare a rarebit 419
Why women sin 425
It simply isn't done 433