Philip Curtiss

Name: Mummers in Mufti — Chapter 20
Author: Philip Curtiss

Mummers in Mufti — Chapter 20 (1922)

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“Mummers in Mufti — Chapter 20”, published in 1922, is a work by Philip Curtiss. It explores elements such as Bellsmith, Israels and theater.

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Philip Curtiss, Mummers in Mufti — Chapter 20 (1922)

“ Odd that in all the hundreds of times he had sat in a theater he had never thought of doing that before. He had counted to twenty-seven in one row when another ripple of laughter swept over the house and he looked up at the stage. Charlie Barnes, in a big red wig and with a helpless, pathetic air, was holding the center of the scene in an eccentric dance, a form of amusement which Bellsmith had always peculiarly detested, but Israels leaned over to him.
"You want to watch that fellow, Charlie Barnes. He's the best drawing card you 've got." ”

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Philip Curtiss, Mummers in Mufti — Chapter 20 (1922)

“ The audience greeted her appearance with the tentative, cautious wave of applause with which a provincial audience always greets every principal until it is sure which one is at last the expected "star." Even Bellsmith, from different motives, felt a sudden check at his heart, but it was not Tilly Marshall. ”

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Philip Curtiss, Mummers in Mufti — Chapter 20 (1922)

“ He turned to Israels and spoke in the low tones that both of them had instinctively adopted.
"There is not much of a house here to-night."
Israels looked slowly down at the empty seats, and it was a minute before he spoke—with forced casualness.
"Monday night," he remarked. "Always a bad night on the road."
His tone was perfectly nonchalant, but it still left a reluctant fragment of doubt in Bellsmith's mind. He suddenly began to wonder what a performance would pay if every seat were taken—what the "house would hold." ”

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Philip Curtiss, Mummers in Mufti — Chapter 20 (1922)

“ At the sight of Bellsmith in company with the manager, who had not been one of the party on the previous evening, she stopped uncertainly.
"What in the world are you doing here?" she demanded. Her tone was unconsciously one of proprietorship, not merely that of a sister but that of a sister who was much older than he.
Israels could not resist the temptation to break the great news.
"Mr. Bellsmith," he announced, "can come in here any time he wants. He is the big boss now. He cracks the whip over us all. He has bought the show." ”

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Philip Curtiss, Mummers in Mufti — Chapter 20 (1922)

“ More than anything else that had been said, more than anything else that could have been said, did they make Bellsmith at last realize that the company was his. It was a thrilling but at the same time a frightening thought. Suppose they should suddenly stop that performance up there on the stage, walk to the footlights, and calmly ask him what to do next.
As the act went on, however, there seemed to be less and less danger that he would be called on to take part. As Israels had said, the organization apparently "functioned like silk." ”

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Philip Curtiss, Mummers in Mufti — Chapter 20 (1922)

“ For a moment a spark of resentment rose up in his mind against stodgy old Leicester. Already, unconsciously, he was beginning to see the town from the point of view of an outsider. In a manner of speaking, he was now "outside money" himself. ”

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Philip Curtiss, Mummers in Mufti — Chapter 20 (1922)

“ He leaned over to whisper to Israels, but the later had disappeared and Bellsmith found himself standing alone.
As the act went on, ushers, the check-room girl, occasionally Oliver, and at all times various ones of those unattached men who apparently have no occupation in life except that of standing in the darkened rear of a theater came and went, leaning a few moments against the high rail beside him and then passing on. Toward the end of the act Bellsmith heard one of the volunteers turn to Oliver. ”

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Philip Curtiss, Mummers in Mufti — Chapter 20 (1922)

“ Bellsmith nodded. "That's true."
It was several seconds before Miss Marshall would consent to admit the worst; then she turned slowly to Israels.
"You ought to be ashamed of yourself," she remarked.
Israels put on a slight shade of an attitude toward women which would probably be called "kidding."
"Why?" he demanded. "What's the matter?"
"You know well enough," retorted the girl, and without another word she marched off to her dressing-room.
Israels looked after her, grinning. "She does n't seem to be pleased," he remarked, but Bellsmith made no reply. ”

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