Twenty-four years old, thin mustache, elegant, refined, in full dress (in those days a redingote was mandatory during the day), smart but timid in the presence of the director, 2400 annual salary paid by the director, looks through newspapers, answers letters, distributes boxes and countermarks , coordinates meetings, talks with those who wait a long time for an appointment, runs to sick artists, looks for understudies, communicates with the heads of various services.