Advertising for Ballet Girls--Salaries Paid them--Who Apply-- Where the Can-Can Flourishes--The Ups and Downs of a Ballet Girl's Life--The Nautch Dancers 241-250 CHAPTER XVII. TRAINING BALLET DANCERS. Interviewing Sig. J. F. Cardella--The French School Theatre La Scala--Amount of Practice Required--The American Ballet-- Salaries of Premieres, Coryphees, etc.--The Time Required--A Little Fond and Foolish at Times 251-263 CHAPTER XVIII. PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS. The Trials and Tribulations of the Gawky Young Dramatist-- English, French and American Playwrights--The Desire for Foreign Plays--Bartley Campbell's Christmas Story 264-275 CHAPTER XIX. MASHERS AND MASHING. Gunakophagists or Woman-Eaters--Corner Loafers--Mashers of the Profession--Female Mashers--The Blonde Beauties of the Leg Drama--Model Letter--Lillian Russell's Escapades--"Patti" and the Midget "Foster"--The Old Masher Squeezed--The Girl in Red Tights at Uhrig's Cave--Music and Mashing 276-295 CHAPTER XX. THE MAIDEN AND THE TENOR. Ambleleg--His Soul Full of Art and Throat Full of Music--Miss Justaytine the Pink of Beauty and Perfection of Belleship--The Chorus Singer Mashed on the Maiden--The Mash Mutual--The Brother and Lover Mash the Tenor--Suit for $10,000 and the Compromise 296-302 CHAPTER XXI. FISHING FOR FREE PUFFS. A First-Class Puff in a Leadville Paper--All Anxious to Appear in Print--Various Ways of Puffing--Sending Photos--Diamond Robberies--Falling Heir to a Fortune, etc.--Minnie Palmer's Artless Display of Underwear--The Abbott Kiss--Catherine Lewis Fling--Emelie Melville's Presents to Critics--The Morning Buzzard and the Evening Crow 303-314 CHAPTER XXII. THE ACTRESS AND THE INTERVIEWER. All Performers must Meet the Interviewing Fiend--How the Interviewer is Received by Patti, Nilsson, Gerster, Kellogg, Cary, Hauk, Abbott, Bernhardt, Morris, Modjeska, Neilson, Anderson, Davenport, Mitchell, Lotta, and Others 315-319 CHAPTER XXIII. A FEW FOOT-LIGHT FAVORITES. Mistress Woffington--Children as Actors and Actresses--Little Corinne--Debut of Emma Livry--Nell Gwynne the Fish Girl-- Lola Montez, the Pretty Irish Girl--Adah Isaacs Menken as _Mazeppa_--Mary Anderson the Tragedienne--Lotta and Maggie Mitchell, and a Host of Others 320-342 CHAPTER XXIV. CHINESE AND JAPANESE THEATRICALS. Great Length of the Play--Description of a Chinese Theatre-- The Prompter--The Audience--The Actors--The Musicians-- Japanese Theatres--No "Reserved Seats"--Prices of Admission --Side Shows 343-352 CHAPTER XXV. OPERA AND OPERA SINGERS.