AS YOU LIKE IT The big dressing rooms on each side of the stage at Assembly Hall were ablaze with light.

There was a hum of girlish voices and gay laughter, and all the pleasant excitement attending an amateur production prevailed.

The dressing had been going on for the last hour, and now a goodly company of courtiers and dames stood about waiting while Miss Tebbs and Miss Kane rapidly "made up their faces" with rouge and powder.
This being done to prevent them from looking too pale when in the white glare of the footlights.
Miriam Nesbit as the "Duke" looked particularly fine, and the girls gathered around her with many exclamations of admiration.

Nora's roguish face looked out from her fool's cap in saucy fashion as she flitted about jingling her bells.

Grace made a handsome Orlando, while Jessica looked an ideal shepherdess.
"Where's Anne ?" said Grace as Nora paused in front of her.