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| | ON THE THEATRICAL ORIGIN OF THE EXPRESSION "GREEN ROOM" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | If they were, one may hazard a guess that the choice of the color green may be related to the livery worn by members of one of the professional companies that after 1572 were required by law to be patronized by members of the nobility. |
 | | Actors, therefore, on special occasions wore the liveries, identifiable primarily by color, of the Lord Chamberlain (George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon), the Lord Admiral (Lord Charles Howard), the Earl of Leicester (Robert Dudley), the Earl of Derby (Ferdinando Stanley), the Earl of Pembroke (William Herbert), and others. |
 | | Charles Earle Funk and Charles Earle Funk, Jr., Horsefeathers and Other Curious Words (New York Perennial Llbrary, 1986 [1958]): 179-180 dismisses the glare theory on the authority of Sir St. Vincent Troubridge, a historian of the theatre. |
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