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The musician studied the note carefully and a broad smile broke over his face. As one of the first violins at the Winter Garden, with a wide acquaintance among desirable patrons of the theatre, he had peculiar facilities for obtaining free private boxes and orchestra chairs not only at his own theatre, but often at Wallack's in Broome Street and the old Bowery.
It was not often that these young gentlemen patronized Wallack's, for even a gallery ticket there was high-priced; but both wanted to see the popular play of "Ours," and had managed to scrape together fifty cents each. "Dick," said Micky, suddenly, "there's Frank Kavanagh down near the stage, in an orchestra seat." "So he is," said Dick.
In the original Wallack's Theatre, many years ago, the Easy Chair was one of a party in a stage-box during a fine performance of one of the plays in which the acting of the manager was most effective. It was a gay party, and with the carelessness of youth it made merry while the play went on.
However, the man held a bill of sale for one-half of the "California Menagerie," and Old Adams finally consented to accept me as an equal partner in the speculation, saying that he guessed I could do the managing part, and he would show up the animals. I obtained a canvas tent, and erecting it on the present site of Wallack's Theatre, Adams there opened his novel California Menagerie.
This slight sketch of artistic reverie completed, he went on, proceeding a little more rapidly down the Avenue; presently turned over to the stage door of Wallack's, made his way through the ensuing passages, and appeared upon the vasty stage of the old theatre, where his company of actors awaited his coming to begin the rehearsal of a new play. "First act, please, ladies and gentlemen!"
He was the original Matthew Leigh in Lester Wallack's romantic play of Rosedale . He acted Joseph Surface in the days when Lester Wallack used to play Charles, and he always held his own in that superior part. He was equally fine in Sir Peter and Sir Oliver.
Never marry a man whom you cannot love, my dear, if you remain an old maid so long that they date from your birth instead of the Christian era." "You say that you have not seen him since that evening at Wallack's," said Josephine. "Have you not heard from him since?" "Yes," said Emily, "we " "Write?" "Yes," again said the young girl. "I hope you do not think that is wrong.
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