I suppose you know all about the stage and stage people. You've been touched with and byactors, and you read the newspaper criticisms and the jokes in the weeklies about theRialto and the chorus girls and the long-haired tragedians. And I suppose that a condensedlist of your ideas about the mysterious stageland would boil down to something like this: Leading ladies have five husbands, paste diamonds, and figures no better than your own(madam) if they weren't padded. Chorus girls are inseparable from peroxide, Panhards andPittsburg. All shows walk back to New York on tan oxford and railroad ties