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smaller towns It Is imp*is*'hie, so we have to carry our own music. We huvs the same scenery, the fame people, the same costumes and everything that we used in St. Louis during the World's Fair last summer.We have over 1000 costumes and my cleaning bill each week alone la J250. 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 caVry our armor, so that It will not become scratched or bent. If there is a damaged urtlcle of wearing apparel or acroutremsnt 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 Imprest iftion tho minds of the people of Galveston the time of the raising of the curtain. At the matl-ne performances the curtain rises at 2 o'clock prompt by the We.-tern Union Jiime—not a moment' sooner or one later. At night the curtain goes up at prompt 8 o'clock. If my stage manager varies a minute from this time ho is Jacketed. During the prelude, which lasts hut about 10 minute?, the house is entirely dark, the only lights Ix-ing on the stage, so that no one can la* seated during that time. Besides. It would cause a great deal of disturbance. whic.i we wish to avoid. Bach night is a complete performance unlo Itself. 1 have been told that some people here are of the crifnion that the play is something on the ord* r of a Chinese drama, the plot continuing from nlghi to night. 8ueh is not the case When a«kcJ something about the number of men employed by the company outside of the regular employes of ths operaSome pe farmers not bs aWill try tIt Is pollIn refuslr the trustbusiness. North C this year 20 to 50 p ment. 7 pound Is their cot In the tinMlNew T that nog gor of thgraph clt; somethinIt canIty thatsuit havGould m Union ai agement Some i: Western acqulsHi mutuallyI»H.nro chon '.ess. CM llclent t being lit carry, nCertain.the Irriicontaincents.UNCLi
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Galveston Tribune
Galveston, Texas, US
Mon, Dec 19, 1904
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