Theatrical and Circus Life or, Secrets of the Stage, Green-Room and Sawdust Arena
CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE GREEN-EYED AND OTHER MONSTERS.
The Street Arabs and Lotta--The Stage at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century--Little "Accidents" of Bernhardt and Indiscretions of Patti--"Sudden Johnnie" and Colombier-- Lizzie McCall's Crime--Miss Bertha Welby and Miss Cleves--The "Old Gray" and the Skipping Rope Dancer--Husband and Wife and Ballet Girl--Mephistopheles and Venus 466-483