BLUE-GRASS AND BROADWAY



  "The law won't let us take anything more
off the chorus, so we '11 have to swing back
and put a lot on. Costumes that cost a mil-
lion will be the next drag, mark me, Pop,"
Mr. Godfrey Vandeford declaimed with a
gloomy brow, as he still further delayed ex-
ploring the violet missive.
  "A hundred thousand it will take for cos-
tuming 'The Rosie Posie Girl,' " agreed Pop
dolefully, from above the letter he was
slowly pecking out of the machine.
  "For furnishing chiffon belts, you mean,
not costumes, if we go by Corbett's clothes
ideas," growled the pessimistic, prospective
producer of the possible next season's hit in
the girl-show line.
  "You have it right," answered Pop, sym-
pathetically.
  "If I had n't promised to let old Denny in
on my Violet Hawtry show for the fall I'd
be tempted to throw back everything, even
'The Rosie Posie Girl' and go gunning for
potatoes or onions up on a Connecticut farm;
but the show bug has bit Denny hard and
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