BLUE-GRASS AND BROADWAY
entitled 'When Courtship Was in Flower,'
requiring flowered skirts ten yards wide with
a punch in each furbelow, or we go out of the
theatrical business," said Mr. Vandeford, as
he shuffled a faint, violet-tinted letter out of
a pile of advertising posters emblazoned with
dancing girls and men, several personal bills,
two from a theatrical storage house and one
from an electrical expert, leaned back in his
chair, and prepared to open the violet com-
munication. "We dropped twenty thou-
sand cool on 'Miss Cut-up,' and those sixteen
pairs of legs cost us fifteen hundred a week.
We might be in danger of starving right
here on Broadway, if we had n't picked a
sure-fire hit in 'The Rosie Posie Girl.'"
  "Ain't it the truth," answered Mr. Adolph
Meyers, as he glanced up from his type-
writer with a twinkle in his big black eyes
that were like gems in a round, very sedate,
even sad, Hebrew face. "Bare legs and
'cut-ups' is already old now, Mr. Vandeford.
It is that we must have now a play with a
punch."
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