Chapter I: Front Matter

THE SORROWS OF A SHOW GIRL

A STORY OF THE GREAT "WHITE WAY"

BY KENNETH MCGAFFEY

1908

These Stories were originally printed in _The Morning Telegraph_, New York.

CONTENTS

Chapter

Explanation

1 Sabrina Discourses Theatrical Conditions

2 The Carrier Pigeon as a Benefit to Humanity

3 Sabrina Receives Money from an Unexpected Source

4 Sabrina Receives Her Fortune and Says Farewell to the Hall Bedroom

5 Sabrina Visits Her Patents in Emporia, and Shocks that Staid Town

6 Details of How Sabrina Stood Emporia on Edge and was Ejected
Therefrom

7 The Chorus Girls' Union Gave their Annual Ball

8 Sabrina Falls In Love with a Press Agent with Hectic Chatter

9 Sabrina Returns to the Chorus, so that She Can Keep Her Automobile
Without Causing Comment

10 Sabrina and Her Former Room-mate Involved in an Argument at a
Beefsteak Party

11 The Dramatic Possibilities of the "Mangled Doughnut"

12 Sabrina Passes a Few Remarks on Love, Comedians, and Spring Millinery

13 Sabrina Scores a Great Personal Success

14 Methods of the House Breakers' Association Disclosed

15 Sabrina Denounces the Male Sex as Being All Alike, and Threatens to
Take the Veil

16 After Investigating the Country Atmosphere Carefully, Sabrina Says
the Only Healthful Ozone is Out of a Champagne Bottle

17 Sabrina Visits the Racetrack and Returns with Money

18 A Pink Whiskered Bark Tries to Convert the Merry-merry

19 Sabrina Advises Chorus Girls, Charging Time for their Company

20 Sabrina is Married and Goes Abroad on Her Wedding Trip

EXPLANATION.

In the following chapters some of Sabrina's remarks are likely to cause the reader to elevate his eyebrows in suspicion as to her true character.

In order to set myself right with both the public and the vast army of Sabrinas that add youth and beauty to our stage, and brilliancy and gaiety to our well known cafes, I wish to say that she is all that she should be. She is a young lady who, no matter how old she may be, does not look it. She is always well dressed, perhaps a little in advance of the fashion, but invariably in good taste. Among strangers or in public places her conduct is all that could be desired, while with those of her own set she becomes more familiar and may occasionally lapse into slang.

Fate may compel her to earn her own living or she may receive an income from a source that has nothing to do with these stories. Any person without the circle of theatrical or newspaper life is looked upon as an interloper by Sabrina and treated accordingly. Hundreds of her like may be found any evening after the theatre in the cafes and restaurants of the "wiseacres" known as the "Tenderloin."

KENNETH MCGAFFEY.

In which Sabrina rushes on the scene and begins to discourse
breathlessly on theatrical conditions, boobs that send poetry
for presents, the tribulations of hunting employment, and the
outlook for a New Year's dinner.