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The scene at the fourth act of Giant Lake.
"Dorothy, it's time for curtain up,"
the bald manager urged anxiously.
In fact, the performance of the fourth act had already begun a full half an hour behind schedule.
Dorothy did not have an independent makeup room, but shared one with other actors of the theatre company to facilitate line learning and rehearsal.
The makeup room was small, yet it was crowded, mostly with young girls who had already applied their makeup and were waiting for the show to start.
Besides them, there were also a number of odd-shaped stunt performers, such as ugly-looking dwarfs, a fat woman weighing over four hundred pounds with two heads, an old man with a hump on his back who walked like a monkey, and a frail young man without limbs, lying in a wheelchair...
