The Sorrows of a Show Girl

Kenneth Mcgaffey

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Sorrows of a Show Girl, by Kenneth McGaffeyThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Sorrows of a Show GirlAuthor: Kenneth McGaffeyRelease Date: December 20, 2003 [eBook #10508]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SORROWS OF A SHOW GIRL***E-text prepared by Rick Niles, Kat Jeter, John Hagarson, Rosanna Yuen, and the Project Gutenberg OnlineDistributed Proofreading TeamTHE SORROWS OF A SHOW GIRLA STORY OF THE GREAT "WHITE WAY"BY KENNETH MCGAFFEY1908These Stories were originally printed in The Morning Telegraph, New York.CONTENTSChapterExplanation1 Sabrina Discourses Theatrical Conditions2 The Carrier Pigeon as a Benefit to Humanity3 Sabrina Receives Money from an Unexpected Source4 Sabrina Receives Her Fortune and Says Farewell to the Hall Bedroom5 Sabrina Visits Her Patents in Emporia, and Shocks that Staid Town6 Details of How Sabrina Stood Emporia on Edge and was Ejected Therefrom7 The Chorus Girls' Union Gave their Annual Ball8 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 Comment10 Sabrina and Her Former Room-mate Involved in an Argument at a Beefsteak Party11 The ...

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Title: The Sorrows of a Show Girl Author: Kenneth McGaffey Release Date: December 20, 2003 [eBook #10508] Language: English

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SORROWS OF A SHOW GIRL*** E-text prepared by Rick Niles, Kat Jeter, John Hagarson, Rosanna Yuen, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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CONTENTS Chapter

THE SORROWS OF A SHOW GIRL A STORYOFTHEGREAT "WHITEWAY" BY KENNETH MCGAFFEY 1908

These Stories were originally printed in The Morning Telegraph , New York.

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

17 Sabrina Visits the Racetrack and Returns with Money

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

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

20 Sabrina is Married and Goes Abroad on Her Wedding Trip

19 Sabrina Advises Chorus Girls, Charging Time for their Company

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

14 Methods of the House Breakers' Association Disclosed

13 Sabrina Scores a Great Personal Success

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

11 The Dramatic Possibilities of the "Mangled Doughnut"

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CHAPTER ONE

In which Sabrina rushes on the scene and begins to discourse breathlessly on theatrical conditions, boobs that send poetry for presents, the tribulations of hunting employment, and the outlook for a New Year's dinner.

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In the following chapters some of Sabrina's remarks are likely to cause the reader to elevate his eyebrows in suspicion as to her true character. In order to set myself right with both the public and the vast army of Sabrinas that add youth and beauty to our stage, and brilliancy and gaiety to our well known cafes, I wish to say that she is all that she should be. She is a young lady who, no matter how old she may be, does not look it. She is always well dressed, perhaps a little in advance of the fashion, but invariably in good taste. Among strangers or in public places her conduct is all that could be desired, while with those of her own set she becomes more familiar and may occasionally lapse into slang. Fate may compel her to earn her own living or she may receive an income from a source that has nothing to do with these stories. Any person without the circle of theatrical or newspaper life is looked upon as an interloper by Sabrina and treated accordingly. Hundreds of her like may be found any evening after the theatre in the cafes and restaurants of the "wiseacres" known as the "Tenderloin. " KENNETH MCGAFFEY.

"Ain't it appalling," demanded Sabrina, the Show Girl, "ain't it appalling the way the show game has gone to the morgue this season? "I never seen nothing like it since I been in the business, and while I ain't going to flash no family Bible that's been some time. Why, shows that were making money if they played to thirty-two dollars on the day just naturally died. Me? You know I wasn't hep to the outlook. I come prancing into town fresh from doing one-night stands through the uncultured West. We did bum business for fair, but shucks, there ain't five dollars' worth of real money in all of Southern Kansas at no time. Salaries! Huh! I had to send home for money to pay my fines with. I cavort gaily out to hunt a job and find a line from Mr. Seymour's office that made the run on the Knickerbocker Trust Company look like the nightly window sale of 'The Evangelist.' I never seen so many of my friends in town at one time in my life, and if you make a noise like a dollar-bill anywhere between the two Flatirons you're liable to be the center of a raging mob. I heard it breathed that all the theatrical storehouses in town were playing to S.R.O. "I got a chance to shake down a little change as prima donna with a turkey show. What do you know about that? I played with one last Thanksgiving, and—excuse these tears—it was a college town and the show was on the blink. 'Nough said. The manager hasn't left there yet. "Oh, Listerine, have you heard the news? Alia McGraw has turned poetess. You know she always was peculiar. I was visiting her the other evening in her dressing room when she declared that she was going to give up her dramatic art and go to painting word pictures. Whatever they are. You see it was this way: She had a boob on her staff who was paying her his devoted attention. According to her statistics that's all he ever did pay for. Well, he commenced doing advance work about a present he was going to give her until he got poor Alla to thinking that it was nothing less than an automobile, and she treated him accordingly. One morning a messenger boy makes his entrance into the flat and hands her a book. Can you beat that? The only thing that kept Alia from foaming at the mouth was because she was combing her Dutch braid. It—the book—was called a Rubaiyat by Omar Quinine, or something like that. This Omar party never wrote a comic opera in his life. But Alla wasn't discouraged, for she looked through every page in hopes of finding a Clearing House certificate, but not a leaf stirred. All she came across was a marked verse that went something like this: "A book of verse underneath a bough,  A Jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou  Beside me sitting in the wilderness—  Oh, wilderness is Paradise enow. "Did you ever hear of such a short sport? Wanted to buy it by the keg and go sit under a tree in Bronx Park. As soon as Alla run out of language she sat down and in less than three hours doped out an answer. I got it here on the back of her laundry list:

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