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"How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage."
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"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."

"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."

"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."

"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."

"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."

"I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it."

"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."

"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."
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"But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached."

"Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production."

"It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind."

"Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries."

"And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession."

"Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody."

"Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant."

"Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work."
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