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Updated: June 12, 2025
She closed her book; and smiled, and said: "I wish these things were comedies instead of trash-edies, as the French call them; we would cut one in half, and slice away the finest passages, and then I would act in it; and you would see how the stage-door would fly open at sight of the author." "O Heaven!" said poor Trip, excited by this picture. "I'll go home, and write a comedy this moment."
"No mistaking him, naturally he's an extra good one to watch. He'd no luggage not even a handbag. I followed him to the taxi-cabs. I was close by when he stepped into one, and I heard what he said. 'Stage door Adalbert Theatre. Off he went I followed in another taxi. I stopped mine and got out, just in time to see him walk up the entry to the stage-door. He went in.
The curtain had scarcely rung up upon the second act of the ballet when a young lady, who met from all the loungers, and even from the door-keeper himself, the most respectful attention, issued from the stage-door at the Empire and stepped into the large motor-car which was waiting, drawn up against the kerb. The door was opened from inside and closed at once.
The windows showed no light, but the door remained open, and Kerry entered without hesitation, crossed a darkened room and found himself in a passage where a man was seated in a little apartment like that of a stage-door keeper. He stood up, on hearing Kerry's tread, peering out at the newcomer. "The restaurant is closed, sir." "Tell me a better one," rapped Kerry. "I want to go upstairs."
The stage-door kind, and the manager's friends who take us to supper and show their diamonds and talk about seeing 'Dan' and 'Dave' and 'Charlie' for us. They're beasts, and I hate 'em. "I tell you, Lynn, it's the girls like us on the stage that ought to be pitied. It's girls from good homes that are honestly ambitious and work hard to rise in the profession, but never do get there.
He was limping goutily home with the Vice, at something after midnight, when, as they passed the stage-door of the Empire, both men were aware of fearsome sounds within the building. And the stage-door was ajar. Being personages of great importance, they entered into the interior gloom and collided with the watchman, who was rushing out. "Is that you, Alderman Keats?" exclaimed the watchman.
Afterwards he dragged Norgate round to the stage-door, installed him in a taxi, and handed over to his escort two or three of his guests. "I entrust you, Mr. Norgate," he declared, "with our one German export more wonderful, even, than my crockery Miss Rosa Morgen. Take good care of her and bring her to the Milan. The other young ladies are my honoured guests, but they are also Miss Morgen's.
When she played a love-scene, people who'd been married thirty years would sit and watch her and hold each other's hands yes, with tears in their eyes. I've seen 'em. And after the performance, one night, the stage-door keeper, a man seventy years old, was caught kissing the latch of the door where she'd touched it; and he was sober, too.
But I will not be beholden to them I will buy a ticket. 'We're sold out, said the box-office man, adding recklessly: 'Get a move on you; other people want to buy seats. 'You can't keep me out! It's conspiracy! He darted within, but was hustled as rapidly without. He ran back to the stage-door, and hurled himself against the burly figure.
He hardly heard her for the first part of the play: and he thought with such rage of the humiliation to which she had subjected him, that he began to fancy he was jealous and in love with her still. But that illusion did not last very long. He ran round to the stage-door of the theatre to see her if possible, but he did not succeed.
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