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Title: The Sorrows of a Show Girl

Author: Kenneth McGaffey

Release Date: December 20, 2003 [eBook #10508]

Language: English

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THE SORROWS OF A SHOW GIRL

A STORY OF THE GREAT "WHITE WAY"

BY KENNETH MCGAFFEY

1908

These Stories were originally printed in
_The Morning Telegraph_, New York.

CONTENTS

Chapter

Explanation

1 Sabrina Discourses Theatrical Conditions

2 The Carrier Pigeon as a Benefit to Humanity

3 Sabrina Receives Money from an Unexpected Source

4 Sabrina Receives Her Fortune and Says Farewell to the Hall Bedroom

5 Sabrina Visits Her Patents in Emporia, and Shocks that Staid Town

6 Details of How Sabrina Stood Emporia on Edge and was Ejected
Therefrom

7 The Chorus Girls' Union Gave their Annual Ball

8 Sabrina Falls In Love with a Press Agent with Hectic Chatter

9 Sabrina Returns to the Chorus, so that She Can Keep Her Automobile
Without Causing Comment

10 Sabrina and Her Former Room-mate Involved in an Argument at a
Beefsteak Party

11 The Dramatic Possibilities of the "Mangled Doughnut"

12 Sabrina Passes a Few Remarks on Love, Comedians, and Spring Millinery

13 Sabrina Scores a Great Personal Success

14 Methods of the House Breakers' Association Disclosed

15 Sabrina Denounces the Male Sex as Being All Alike, and Threatens to
Take the Veil

16 After Investigating the Country Atmosphere Carefully, Sabrina Says
the Only Healthful Ozone is Out of a Champagne Bottle

17 Sabrina Visits the Racetrack and Returns with Money

18 A Pink Whiskered Bark Tries to Convert the Merry-merry

19 Sabrina Advises Chorus Girls, Charging Time for their Company

20 Sabrina is Married and Goes Abroad on Her Wedding Trip

EXPLANATION.

In the following chapters some of Sabrina's remarks are likely to caus