ILLUSTRATIONS Page[Plays are Put up in Packages]Frontis[First catch your play]23[If actors roamed about at will]31[A Stalwart Individual pushing a church]45[The guild of Annanias]51[Anna Held bathing in milk]55[Sometimes things really do happen to actors]67[The Theatrical Women's Parker Club]79[It is very difficult to identify a good play]103[A woman cut her play in half]109[Clyde Fitch's ability to work]129[Augustus Thomas shouts instructions]137[Eugene Walter was lodging upon a park bench]143[Margaret Mayo built a villa]161[The malignant disease]165["You're William A. Brady, ain't you?"]171[A wrinkled old lady confided her desire]175[How sweet to meet one's own image]183[The Great White Way is a recumbent letter I]193[The actor and the rest of the world]199[Allan Dale came three nights running]203[Gets eighteen dollars]209[If actors really "felt their parts"]229[The first time the director has seen them]251[The interruption came on the spot]255[Matches that cannot be lit]259[Ensconced in a swing and two silk stockings]263[Thought seems as material a thing as a handball]267[Gillette flicked the ashes from his cigar]271[Lady Macbeth swore that he grew during the performance]281[A playwright whose stock has soared a hundred points in a single evening]289[A Boston audience at train time]295[Trilby died in every known way]299[The author—as you imagine him, and as he is]303[Venus rose from the sea]319[Danced before a statue of Antony until it bit her]323[You need bring to a vaudeville theatre nothing but the price of admission]327[Their agents search every capital of Europe]335[Known as a stock company]349[Master Betterton had his nerves shaken]357[The actress giving time to dress-makers]361[Evening up matters on his books]369[The great actors of an earlier time]385[A play censor with a club]391[Reputable scoundrels kill by machinery]399[Comstockians wear blinders]403[The peculiarities of royal love-making]413[The lady may have come to prepare a rarebit]419[Why women sin]425[It simply isn't done]433