Theatrical and Circus Life or, Secrets of the Stage, Green-Room and Sawdust Arena
CHAPTER IV.
AT THE STAGE-DOOR.
Front Door and Back Door Entrances--"Mashers" at the "Stage-Door" --The Cerberus who Stands Guard--Perquisites Paid to Him-- Bulkhead and the Ballet Girls--The Tricks of the Scene Painter on the Girls--The Girls' Revenge--Bold and Heartless Lovers --Notes Pushed under the Dressing-Room Door--Alice Oates's Mash--Watching the Manœuvres of the "Mashers"--Tale of the Pink Symmetrical 43-54