surrounded by sorrowing friends, who were trying to do
everything to make it pleasant for her, when the bed on which she
was dying,--an impromptu sort of a bed got up by the stage
carpenter,--tipped partly over, and the dying woman rolled over on the
stage, tipped over a wash-stand filled with tumblers and bottles of
medicine, and raised a deuce of a row. It would have been all right, and
she could have propped the bed up and proceeded with her dying, had not
the actress got rattled.

Most actresses get lost entirely when anything occurs that is not in
the play, and Miss Gray was the scaredest female that ever lived. She
thought it was a judgment on her for playing a dying character, and
thought the whole theatre had been struck by lightning, and was going
to fall down. To save herself was her first thought, so she grabbed her
night-dress,--which was embroidered up and down the front, and had point
lace on the yoke of the sleeves,--in both hands and started for the
orchestra, the wildest corpse that ever lived.

The leader of the orchestra caught her, but not being an undertaker he
did not undertake to hold her, and she fell over the bass viol and
run one foot through the snare drum, and grasping the fiddle for a
life-preserver she jumped into the raging scenery-back of the stage
which represented a sea.

They had to pull her out with boat-hooks, and it was half an hour before
she could be induced to go to bed again and proceed with her dying.

Actresses are often annoyed at the remarks made by foolish fellows in
the audience. A remark by a person in the audience always causes people
to laugh, whether the speaker says anything smart or not.

Recently, in the play of "Cinderella at School," a girl came out with a
sheet over her, as a ghost, to frighten a young fellow who was "mashed"
on her. He looked at the ghost for a moment, and kept on lighting his
cigarette, when a galloot up in the gallery said, so everybody could
hear it, "He don't scare worth a damn!" and the audience went fairly
wild, while the pretty girl stood there and blushed as though her heart
would break.

Such things are wrong.

Probably one of the meanest tricks that was ever, played was played on
Mary Anderson. It will be remembered that in the play of "Ingomar,"
Parthenia and the barbarian have several love scenes, where they lop on
each other and hug some--that is, not too much hugging, but just hugging
enough. Ingomar wears a huge fur garme