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Rh to hang wearily around the wings till the cue is given and they may "go on." Formerly, they were permitted to remain in the green-room until within about five minutes of their appearance, and thus much fatigue was saved. Now, in many cases, the green-room itself has been dispensed with, and the call-boy's occupation is, like Othello's, gone. The disappearance of the green-room was caused by the new fashion of building "stores," warehouses and the like, on the ground story of theatres, which reduced the temples of histrionism to the smallest possible space, scarcely providing for dressing-rooms, much less for the luxury of the green-room. This system prevails principally in the West, for in New York, Boston and Philadelphia theatres are conducted with more liberality than anywhere else in the United States.