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STRICTLY BUSINESS
I SUPPOSE you know all about the stage anl stage
people. You've been touched with and by actors,
and you read the newspaper criticisms and the jokes in
the weeklies about the Rialto and the chorus girls and the
long-haired tragedians. And I suppose that a condensed
list of your ideas about the mysterious stageland would
boil down to something like this:
Leading ladies Ihae five husbands, paste diamonds.
and figures no better than your own (madam) if they
weren't padded. Chorus girls are inseparable from
peroxide, Panhards and Pittsburg. All shows walk
back to New York on tan oxford and railroad ties. Irre-
proachable actresses reserve the comic-landlady part for
their mothers on Broadway and their step-aunts on the
road. Kyrle Bellew's real name is Boyle O'Kelley.
The ravings of John McCullough in the phonograph were
stolen from the first sale of the Ellen Terry memoirs. Joe
Weber is funnier than E. II. Sothern; but Henry Miller
is getting older than he was.
All theatrical people on leaving the theatre at night
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Henry, O., 1862-1910. Strictly Business, book, 1910; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139374/m1/15/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.