A company of soldiers was quartered in the theater itself.

At night, so the lieutenant said, those men who were off duty rummaged the costumes out of the dressing rooms, put them on, and gave mock plays, with music.

An officer's horse occupied what I think must have been the box office.

It put its head out of a little window just over our heads and nickered when other horses passed.

Against the side of the building were posters advertising a French company to play the Gallicized version of an American farce--"Baby Mine"-- by Margaret Mayo.