stage-entrance

Updated: June 20, 2025

I offer you merely this little story of two strollers; and for proof of its truth I can show you only the dark patch above the cast-iron of the stage-entrance door of Keetor's old vaudeville theatre made there by the petulant push of gloved hands too impatient to finger the clumsy thumb-latch and where I last saw Cherry whisking through like a swallow into her nest, on time to the minute, as usual, to dress for her act.

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