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4 Strictly Business
drink champagne and eat lobsters until noon the next
day. After all, the moving pictures have got the whole
bunch pounded to a pulp.
Now, few of us know the real life of the stage people.
If we did, the profession might be more overcrowded
than it is. We look askance at the players with an eye
full of patronizing superiority - and we go home and
practise all sorts of elocution and gestures in front of our
looking glasses.
Latterly there has been much talk of the actor people
in a new light. It seems to have been divulged that
instead of being motoring bacchanalians and diamond-
hungry lorelcis they are businesslike folk, students and
ascetics with childer and homes and libraries, owning
real estate, and conducting their private affairs in as
orderly and unsensational a manner as any of us good
citizens who are bound to the chariot wheels of the gas,
rent, coal, ice, and wardmnen.
Whether the old or the new report of the sock-and-
huskiners be the true one is a surmise that has no
place here. I offer you merely this little story of two
strollers; and for proof of its truth I can show you
only the dark patch above the cast-iron handle of the
stage-entrance door of Keetor's old vaudeville theatre
made there by the petulant push of gloved hands too
impatient to finger the clumsy thumb-latch - and where
I last saw Cherry whisking through like a swallow-1 pi -~~~~~pn~~"""'~""""~"_rr~,mrms~ma~, ~ -- la I
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Henry, O., 1862-1910. Strictly Business, book, 1910; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139374/m1/16/: 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.