STAGE BUSINESS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1327, 23 November 1883, Page 2

STAGE BUSINESS.

I ' I want to know how we are going • ! to get along without.an aucient temple,., says the one. .'•'.•, < 'Well, sir,''- responded the other, < I'll, tell you ; that ru'nied castle, is the best I can do for you, if you are going to, get along with what is on I hand. There is au old prison some- ! where about, but it's terrible shabby, and don't suit my ideas half so well as that bran new ruin.' * /Let down the sky six inches,' calls out a scene shifter, 'now pull your moon over to the left; that's the cussedest moon I ever saw in my life anyhow. Now, Jim you look out tonight for the cue for that sun rising ; you had him up too early last; night. Mr Thornpkins didn't get a chance to do his murder business before you had the sun half up to the flies. 'I'll tell you what it is,' said the star, meeting the leading jnvenile man, you must let me get further down the stage to die ; ridiculous for me to die where I did last night. A friend of mine, who was in front, said I might as well have been doing anything else for all the good he got for it. The fact of it is, you know, if I can't die with my face to the House, I might as well give up the, business/and with injured dignity she passes on to see that the dummy that it is to go overboard when she is lost at sea is properly rigged in a curtume the fac simile of her own.