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Bt Louis during the World’* Fair last summer.We have over 1000 costumes and my cleaning bill each week alone 1* 1250. We can not keep our costumes clean in spite of every precaution taken. The only trunks that we carry bsyond the personalAtrunks of the members of ihe company ore ones built especially to carry our armor, so that it will not become scratched or bent. If there is a damaged urticlc of wearing apparel or accoutrement on the stage in a theatrical performance that is the article or accoutrement that will be noticed when all the rest are not.•*I wish that you would Impress ifton the minds of the people of Galveston the time of the raising of the curtain. At the moti-ne performances the curtain rises at 2 o'clock prompt by the We.-tern lTnlon tume—not a moment' sooner or one later. At night the curtain goes up nt prompt 8 o’clock. If my stage manager varies a minute from this time ho Is jacketed. During the prelude, which lasts but about 10 minute*, the house is entirely dark, the only lights Issng on the stage, so that no one can la* seated during that time. Besides. Ir would cause a great deal of disturbance. whic.t we wish to avoid. lCuch nigh: is a complete performance unto itself. I have been told that some peoplehere are of the or-nion that the play is%something on the order of a Chinese drama, the plot continuing from night to night. 8uch is not the case.”When a«kcd something about the number r.f men employed by the company outside of the cegulaf employes of ths opera
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Galveston Tribune
Galveston, Texas, US
Mon, Dec 19, 1904
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