I dipped through the filmy curtain into the boys' half of the dressing room and there was Sid sitting at the star's dressing table in his threadbare yellowed undershirt, the lucky one, not making up yet but staring sternly at himself in the bulb-framed mirror and experimentally working his features a little, as actors will, and kneading the stubble on his fat chin.
A 1963 short story by one of the most interesting the young writers, Fritz Reuter Leiber, a prolific American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. “No Great Magic” is the sequel to “The Big Time”, including several characters from that book and takes place backstage in a theater doing Shakespeare.
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