The $500 Check — page 264: what you’re looking at

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BERT’S FIRST STAGE APPEARANCE, 245 row from the stage, though Bert, who attended only to his duties, did not see them. When he first came on as a newsboy, Miss _ Stubbs said: ‘‘ How much that newsboy looks like Mr. Barton, ma’s new boarder.”’ ‘** He does look some like him.”’ ‘¢ But of course it isn’t he. J wonder if he is here this evening.”’ ‘“‘T don’t see him anywhere,”’ said the escort. When Bert appeared in his own clothes in the fourth act, Angelica exclaimed: ‘*‘ Why, it is Mr. Barton, after all! Is it possible that I know a liveactor? Why, I was talking to him at supper, and he was really quite attentive to me.”’ ‘‘He is put down on the bill as Bob Hazle- ton,’’ said the young man, consulting the pro- eramme. ‘““That must be his stage name. I will get him to tell me all about acting to-morrow. Do you know, Mr. Cutting, I should like to go on the stage myself? I should so like to play Juliet.”’ ‘¢Tf you do, will you let me be Romeo 2”’ Gomichoo cS