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HYLAND What a scene of general relaxation! The "perspiration of delight" … stands upon every forehead; handkerchiefs, as signals of distress, are flagging with their owners in all directions; curls, unwinding into lankness like cotton balls; and collars curling off from the obnoxious glowing cheek, like the leaves of the American sensitive plant. The thin pale gentleman on our right looks cool, but he is only at a white heat … That stout lady's visage in the left-hand box might pass for Aurora's,—intensely rosy,—and a leash of pearls—(are they not?)—escaped, perhaps, from her tiara, are stealing down her brow … we think the simple glare of the lamps might have accounted of themselves for the head-splitting symptoms of the playgoer. themselves for a night of piercing headaches, with clothing completely soaked from their woolen underwear all the way out to their coats. Women, crushed into their corsets, tended to faint from the heat. Or perhaps they would slip out to the ladies' lounge in order to vomit in privacy. Like it or not, suffering from the heat was a part of summer playgoing. The Courier and Enquirer had once called it "a two hours' seething with four thousand mortal men and women in a huge cauldron of brick and mortar." The humorist Thomas Hood had gone into even more unappetizing detail, describing the genteel horror of sitting through a play in hot weather:

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