The Stage Prompter and His Duties--Actors who "Stick" and some who "Never Stick"--A Popular Actress and her Useful Husband --The Firemen's Amours--Mary Anderson and Her Chewing-Gum-- Emmet's Indiscretions 106-121 CHAPTER IX. STAGE CHARMS AND OMENS. Burning of the Southern Hotel and Kate Claxton's Presence-- Superstitions of John McCullough, Raymond, Joe Jefferson, Sothern, Florence, Booth, Chanfrau, Byron, Thorne, Neilson, Lotta, etc., etc.--Courtaine and Ince 122-143 CHAPTER X. NOT DOWN IN THE BILL. Actors who Memorize whole Newspapers--Lovely Peggy--Kean Dying as he Played--Sol. Smith's Funny Adventure--A Masher made Serviceable--Charlotte Cushman and the Colored Bell-Boy who brought Down the House--The Call-Boy's Revenge--The Lecturer, Trick Candle and Trap Door--An English Performance of William Tell 144-161 CHAPTER XI. THE ILLUSIONS OF THE STAGE. Mrs. Bellamy and Mr. St. Leger in Dublin--Rousseau's Description of Paris Opera--Modern Mechanism--Producing Steam, Fire, Thunder, Lightning, etc.--Olive Logan and her Jewels--Snow Storm in "The Two Orphans"--Rain in "Hearts of Oak"--Rivulets in "Danites"--Funny Inventory of "Property" in a London Theatre 162-182 CHAPTER XII. MORE OF THE MYSTERIES. The Property-Man and his Duties--Sunlight--Moonlight-- Twinkling of Stars--Ocean Waves--Fire in "Phœnix" and "Streets of New York"--Full Description of the Famous Raft Scene 183-194 CHAPTER XIII. THE ARMY OF ATTACHES. Broken Down or "Crushed" Actors as Door-Keepers--The Treasurer of the Theatre--The Usher--Orchestra and Leader--Stage Manager --The Scenic Artist--The Stage Carpenter, Supes and Minor Attaches, and Last but not Least the Call-Boy 195-205 CHAPTER XIV. STAGE STRUCK. The Young Man from Cahokia--The Box of Gags--Stage Struck Girls of Louisville--The College Graduate from Illinois--"The Warrior Bowed His Crested Head"--The "N. G." Curtain--Marie Dixon's Failure--Mrs. H. M. Lewis, of Charleston, Duped by Schwab & Rummel--Harry Russell Pseudo "Manager"--A Colored Troop's Curious Epistle 206-226 CHAPTER XV. THE REHEARSAL. Old-Time and Present Rehearsals--Olive Logan's Description of a Rehearsal--Rehearsal of the _Corps de Ballet_--Appearance of Taglioni, Cerito, Carlotta Grisi, Lucile Grahn at Her Majesty's Theatre, in London 227-240 CHAPTER XVI. CANDIDATES FOR SHORT CLOTHES.