Continuous Vaudeville

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Cressy Will Martin. Continuous Vaudeville

INTRODUCTION

THE OLD STAGE DOOR TENDER

IT'S HARD TO MAKE THE OLD FOLKS BELIEVE IT

UNION LABOR

MARTIN LEHMAN GOES TO NEW YORK

SOME HOTEL WHYS

IT ISN'T THE COAT THAT MAKES THE MAN

ONE-NIGHT-STAND ORCHESTRAS

"HEART INTEREST"

TOMMIE RYAN'S HORSE

VAUDEVILLE VS. THE LEGITIMATE

A SOCIAL SESSION

BIGALOW AND THE BIG SIX

NEVER AGAIN

THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT

HOW MIKE DONLIN SHRUNK

A NIGHT IN BOHEMIA

BREAKS

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NEW YORK AND CANANDAIGUA

LET US HOPE

THE OLD SHIP OF ZION

FIREMAN, SAVE MY CHILD

PLAYING THE ENGLISH MUSIC HALLS

"WOODIE"

A CORK MAN

THE TROUBLES OF THE LAUGH GETTERS

ASLEEP WITH HER SWITCH

I JOIN THE SUFFRAGETTES

THE PERILS OF A GREAT CITY

DO YOU BELIEVE IN SIGNS?

CLOSING NUMBER

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Naturally if you are going back on the stage to get acquainted with its people, the first chap you are going to meet is the old Stage Door Tender. You will find him at every stage door, sitting there in his old arm chair, calm, quiet, doing nothing; he is a man of few words; he has heard actors talk so much that he has got discouraged. He sees the same thing every week; he sees them come in on Monday and go out on Saturday; the same questions, the same complaints, the same kicks. So he just sits there watching, waiting and observing.

He seldom speaks, but when he does, he generally says something.

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An agent for some fangled kind of typewriter was trying to interest the Stage Door Tender of Keith's Theater in Philadelphia in the machine:

"Now this is just what a man in your position wants and needs. You have a lot of writing to do here, and nowhere to do it; now with this machine you don't require any table or desk; you can hold this typewriter right in your lap."

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