Identifier: theatricalcircus00je (find matches)
Title: Theatrical and circus life;
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Jennings, John Joseph, 1853-1909. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Theater Circus
Publisher: Chicago, Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rformers who die in poverty now are allowedto seek any other than the charity of their professionalbrethren. The Benevolent and Protective Order ofElks takes care of the unfortunates, assisting themgenerously while living and giving them decent burialat their death. As I said, the minstelboy is an irresistible «« masher.His particular weakness is women, with wine oftenonly a little behind. He lives at as rapid a rateas his salary will allow, and turns night into day by taking in the town after the performance. Theyfrequently get into scandalous history owing to thepromiscuousness with which they pick up withpetticoats, and their amours get them into greattrouble. Women seem to have a lavish fondness forthe end-man, and many of them have left husband, THE MIN$TRE*< BOtS, 378 children, and home to follow the fortunes of a fickleminstrel. The story of the Chicago gamblers wifewho ran off with Billy Arlington is still fresh in theminds of the people of the city by the lake, and still
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YOU ARE THE SORT OF A MAN I LIKE. fresher is that of the St. Louis demi-mondaine whosold out her house to be always near her Johnny,*who, I think, was one of the Big Four. A mash that created a sensation, though, was one 374 THE MINSTREL BOYS. that developed in a New York Bowery theatre, onenight, when a young woman elegantly attired jumpedout of a private box, and embracing a performer whowas just finishing a banjo solo, shouted in a voice thatwas clear and loud, Youre the sort of a man I like !The audience cheered lustily and the young womanaccepted the applause with a courtesy, while the ban-joist staggered into the wings, too much amazed to beflattered. A young man from whose side the lady badmade her leap upon the stage, succeeded with somedifficulty in coaxing her back into the box and theshow went on. The pair had been dining and winingtogether, and the young gentleman had not been as at-tentive to his companion as she thought proper. Soshe had chosen the original method of at

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