A GUIDE BEHIND THE SCENES
certain other sums: a fee for a doubled rôle, a fee for a song and dance, an extra fee for taking some one else’s place, a fee for appearing nude and painting the body. But, in spite of all these extra fees, the players do not seem to grow remarkably rich. As a matter of fact the counting-house is rather a sad little place, with its small window usually shut. Here, too, players may receive advances on their salaries.
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