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Updated: June 12, 2025
It was late that evening when, in obedience to the summons of a sixpenny telegram, Maurice Mangan called at the stage-door of the New Theatre and was passed in.
Then he turned abruptly away and left the room. It was the first speech of its sort which he had ever made in his life. Tavernake felt that he had indeed wandered into an alien world as he took his place the following evening among the little crowd of people who were waiting outside the stage-door of the Atlas Theatre. These were surroundings to which he was totally unaccustomed.
"We waited at the stage-door, and went off with the first person who came out, male or female." "But I understood you did not take up women?" "Nor do we. Theatrical people constitute a sex by themselves like curates." "Then can't I even do the man who stands at the theatre doors, all shirt-front and diamonds?" The president shivered. "If you happen to be passing, at any rate," he said.
The goat had 'em out and half on the bed when Bob came in and stopped him. Awful row, I heard, when Mrs. Bob got on to it. He'll never go there again." "And I heard," broke in Bunce, "that she ordered the trap and sent him back to the station." Other bits drifted Jack's way: "Why he was waiting at the stage-door and she slipped out somewhere in front.
My daughter thought it such an extraordinary coincidence that the old man should have come to the stage-door of Drury Lane by a mere chance on my jubilee day that she took his address, and I was to send him a photograph and remuneration. But I promptly lost the address, and was never able to trace the old man. I have now nearly finished the history of my fifty years upon the stage.
The poor tired people! so much happens in their life to make them weep, is it not good sport to make them merry for awhile? Do you remember that old soul in the front row of the Pit? How she laughed when you sat down on the pie! I thought she would have to be carried out. I heard her talking to her companion as they passed the stage-door on their way home.
Pay next time, Jim's theatre was close by, it was but a stone's-throw to the stage-door. Easy to leave him a note. What will he think, I wonder, as he reads it, and the sovereign rolls out: 'Dear old man, forgive me I forgot it was a sovereign's-worth of home. Yet, after all, it was the oysters that did this thing.
A refined girl would never put herself in a position requiring such drastic measures; but it is, I think, to these reckless young wretches, and a few silly, sentimental simpletons who permit themselves to be drawn into a mawkish correspondence with perfect strangers, that we really owe the continued existence of the stage-door "masher," who wishes to be mistaken for a member of the jeunesse dorée.
"He may not have driven here at all," I interrupted; "he may have driven somewhere else and performed the latter part of his journey here " "In the crate!" cried Gatton. "Yes, you are right; his body may actually have been inside the crate at the time that you and Bolton arrived here last night; for that would be fully an hour after Sir Marcus left the stage-door."
Curiosity respecting the joke which she believed was being played upon the baronet prompted her to go outside the stage-door to see if there was actually a cab waiting. There was, and she heard Sir Marcus ask the man if he knew the address to which he was to drive.
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