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An Actor By Proxy

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
March
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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"1 must teil vuil how 1 tipenrel oncfl 511 the theatricnl stugu by pro ." :i .1 .1 ltldv Who 8 lllu li':nl of II il ) tftlll III in ono of Detroii's lai'jfti 'lv ijíxkIh stoivs, "llic only Liitlti lliat 1 liad ;i ii 'doublé' to ropresent mu. "R was wlien a cotupany was !avng tbe 'Big Bonanza' hen: ibai Mr. , onc of ilic propr elors, Ca mu U) me v.iili n gtrange gentleman anti tUI me to let uim have severo! oloaka on approval. "I was nsgisted by a tall, glim vounj;; huir, while I ns jou peroelve, nm qtiile tbe revene. I ooticed the guntleraan eve ii r iis very cloaelj, bat tliouhi DOtbiug of l at tho time. He LoM us that h: belonged to tbe big Boiuinzn troupe, and, itfter he seleeted tlie uloukx lie wanteü, gave us eaoh 11 couiplimuntary iovitation to ue tlio play and went liwav. 'Ulien iho eveninje oame we allenileil u cornpany and sat logetliur. Uur si'ais vrere near ibe stae and we ü:h Iv i'ecognized in onc of the oharoctera Liio peniloiuan who had aeleotod thu clouk.i li" day bi:fore. "Well, afler a while tliore w:is :t soenu represuntinir the ínter or of a dry i goods store, and (ln-ir wi-re cloaks, nul two ladea selüng tliem. These two wero exact ooilDterparts of ni.sclf an i usisiaiil. Miss . I was ï'vally slarlld by the reseiublance to m mslt Priem 1 8 n the andience also notiood it and llio aetors tliemselves kept glnncing ut us to comparo notes. It was ainusing. and also verv euibnrrafisiii J'lie aotor who borrowed the eloak.i must have had a quick memory, foi1 inhad drilled his oliaVactors into exm-i iuiitalion of our trlok of aelling aml muthod of displayinggooda ïho likeni'ss lo ourselves was so natural tliat il made bot h of ns nervous. "'J'hat was iny iirs t and lasl

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat