the ghost does not walk?

the ghost does not walk?
   obsolete
   the cast will not be paid
   Theatrical jargon, the ghost being the cashier.
   The reference is to the days when actors were less protected by a union and the only threat of striking was by Marcellus, with his partisan.

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