Image from page 485 of "Theatrical and circus life;" (1893)
Identifier: theatricalcircus00je
Title: Theatrical and circus life;
Authors: Jennings, John Joseph, 1853-1909. [from old catalog]
Publisher: Chicago, Laird & Lee
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sed. This Mr.Rankin sternly refused to do. Then Mrs. Rankin re-fused to play, and a clever young lady was given the partof Billy Piper. The newspapers praised the new Billyso highly that Mrs. Rankin hurried back to resume thepart, but remained cold toward and entirely estrangedfrom her husband. After some time the wound washealed and the couple reunited. There were severalsplit-ups of this kind, but Mr. and Mrs. Rankin arenow living happily together, and it is to be hoped thatthe success of their new play, 49, will keep themhappy forever. Now and then the jealous actresss feelings are ex-pressed in a rather ridiculous manner. During the runof a spectacular play in one of the large cities one of 476 THE GREEN-EYED AND OTHER MON8TER8. those old chaps who like to linger behind the scenesand tickle the fairies under the chin succeeded in makinghimslf the admirer of one of the ladies — one whoplayed a prince or something of that kind. Hebrought her flowers every night, took her to supper
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JEALOUSY. after the play, and often paid for a ride under thestarry night at a time when he should have been rest-ing his hoary head upon his pillow at home. He keptthis up for a while ; then he suddenly turned his at-tention to another girl, who was doing a skipping-rope THE GREEN-EYED AND OTHER MONSTERS. 477 dance during an interval in the play. He began tobring her flowers and to feed her on midnight oysters,and totake her on moonlight rides. The pretty princestood it as long as she could ; then she made up hermind to be revenged on the old deceiver. She waitedone night until she saw him talking to the skipping-rope dancer, when she picked up a broom, and steal-ing to the opposite side of the scene, made a high hitat his plug hat, just as he was presenting the rival abouquet, and knocked the piece of head-gear clear intothe outfield. The ancient Lothario felt around amongthe few hairs on the top of his head to see whethera piece of skull had not been chipped off; the skipping-rope
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