Word: stage-door
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Aroused by the growing collegiate element in the stage-door line, the dancers recently formed a "College Date Bureau," and the committee on admissions has issued a personal information blank rivaling an income tax blank in proportions. The five dollars will go to the Stage Relief Fund, it is said...
Determined stage-door Johnnies will have to tell whether their appearance is "boyish, manly, handsome, distinguished, athletic, or scholarly"; whether they are "shy, bold, cautious, rockless, forward, retiring, or just natural with girls"; whether they are lady-killers or bookworms...
Riabouchinska was born a banker's daughter during the Tsarist regime, studied with Kshesinskaya, the ballerina who was Nicholas II's mistress up to the time of his marriage. In London the fair-haired Riabouchinska had so many stage-door admirers that the Ballet's director, Colonel Vassily de Basil, rushed her to Lloyd's, insured her against marriage for several years to come...
...London stage-door Johnny, picking up an American actress, along with her glove, offends her Broadway pride, but persuades her to marry him, contrary to parental ambitions. Some months later, he leaves his poor but pregnant wife to seek, aid from home; his father refuses to give in, and he commits suicide. The child is abducted by the relentless grandparent. The expected meeting with his mother takes place in a French house of ill-repute, during the war, where her clean life has finally rewarded her with the job of madame. The worldly-wise young soldier reforms, when he learns...
...compensations of being a stage-door keeper is the tips derived from gallant gentlemen seeking entrance to the actresses' dressing rooms. Last week the indigent Budapest Opera capitalized such backstage gallantry. It offered for sale to Budapest bloods little silver keys to the ballet dancers' green room and the singers' smoking room. Price $150, good for one year...