WILL. F. SAGE, Plays for Sale or to Play on Royalty. All duly copyrighted.

DESTINY, a melodrama, in seven tableaux, successfully produced at McVickers Theatre, Jan. 1879.

HIS FORTUNE, a melodrama in five tableaux.

ACTRESS AND ARTIST, an ideal comedy in three acts.
ON THE SANDS, a specialty farce in three acts.
NATHAN PILLSBURY, a comedy drama in three acts.
WHAT COULD YOU EXPECT? a comedy extravaganza in
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TIQ SETTLED AT LAST! a musical satire in two acts. MOROMI, a melodramatic musical satire in a prelude and two acts. Address 252 Sixth Avenue, New York.

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THE THEATRE:

AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE

of DRAMA, MUSIC, ART AND LITERATURE-Published every week from October to May, and as a monthly during the summer, at No. 42 West Twenty-third Street, New York, DESHLER WELCH... EDITOR.

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ENTRE NOUS.

THER countries have produced adventurers and scheming swindlers but the hustler" is a purely American product. The chief signifi

cation of the word I take it consists in the union of action, adroit and energetic methods with praiseworthy, and, indeed, honorable inten

tions. You hear of some great land enterprise being floated among a syndicate of wealthy and reputable capitalists, and upon investigation you find at the bottom of it all the "hustler" who has conceived the enterprise, planned the whole operation, secured the options and placed the property. Your capitalist enjoys the great bulk of the profit growing out of the success of the enterprise, and by far the greater portion of the fame, but after all it is the active brain of the "hustler" that uses the capitalist as a means to an end. You read of warlike demonstrations in a distant South Sea island, of intrigues, battles and bombardments that threaten to wrench asunder the friendly re

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lations of the powerful nations and it turns out that the American "hustler" is at the bottom of it all. It is his activity that prostrates the machinations of greedy foreign interlopers and arms and drills a feeble native population to successfully defy those modern leviathans of the deepthe ironclads. A new journal is started that becomes an instant success and enriches its proprietors; the idea originated with the "hustler." An American actress achieves fame and wealth abroad, it was the "hustler" who took her there and by his pluck and genius prepared the way for her triumphs.

SOME

OME of the greatest and most positive successes in the theatrical line of business have been brought about by, and owe their origin to, the "hustler" who fails to reap his reward because he had no capital; because he was physically and mentally unable to carry his fruit to ripeness for want of something in the shape of ready money to meet the exigencies of a moment. At last, like the poor inventor who has made fortunes for ignorant capitalists, he is obliged to succumb; his opportunities are then seen by others who would even jeer at the "hustler" if he asked for a loaf of bread. If our friend had succeeded he would have been given complimentary dinners at Delmonico's.

THESE thoughts, which are common enough, suggest to me a story I heard the other day which has never been in print and which is an exceedingly rich and humorous example of bright brains, shrewdness and knavery. It is about Robert Grau, a brother of Maurice Grau, the well-known impressario. Several years ago Robert was managing a "Pinafore" opera company which was visiting a number of small towns in Canada. He had exceedingly hard luck and finally reached that mortifying and oppressively uncomfortable point when the necessity of paying the company's board without any means, stared him in the face. So sure was Robert that at the next place he would be able