Fine! Fine!! Better use that line in your review tomorrow. Of course it hasn’t anything to do with _Fanny’s Second Play_, but that doesn’t matter. It’s too good to lose. HILL By the way, the Dramatic Mirror wrote me for my picture to-day. They’re going to print it in the next number. Pretty good, eh? FENEMY I should say yes! I wish I could get as much advertising as you get, Hill. HILL (_suddenly_) By Jove! An idea! What if this play we saw tonight was written by Belasco, after all? SUMMERS Impossible, gentlemen. Had Mr. Belasco written it, we should have had an inkling of the fact through the recent lawsuit calendars. FENEMY Maybe it’s by Augustus Thomas. It’s got a lot of thought in it! HILL Yes, it certainly is full of thought! DIXON Sure, it’s got a pile of thought in it all right enough! SUMMERS (_lifting his eyebrows_) What thought, gentlemen? FENEMY Didn’t you catch that curious new word in the second act? What was it, Dixon? HILL Psychothrapy. DIXON No, you mean psychothrupy. FENEMY No, no, it is psychothripy. SUMMERS Gentlemen, you mean psychotherapy. ALL Well, it doesn’t matter. It’s _thought_, anyway--something snappy and new. And Augustus Thomas is the only American playwright who thinks. DIXON Did you notice that reference to the “sweet and noble mother”? _I_ think Roi Cooper Megrue wrote it--and I don’t like Megrue. He’s too fat looking. I think the play is punk. HILL But that third act attempted seduction climax sounds to me like Sheldon. DIXON (_quickly_) Oh, _then_ the play’s all right! HILL But we must remember that Sheldon is a _young_ man and that he is a Harvard graduate. He needs taking down a little. DIXON But he’s a good friend of my dear friend Mrs. ----. Anyway, if only Belasco----. FENEMY (_interrupting_) Well, I’ve got to get down to the office and write my review. (_looking at watch_) It’s got to be in at twelve o’clock and it’s ten minutes of twelve now, and I’ve got to fill a column. (_exits_) HILL Between us, Dixon, I personally enjoyed this play immensely; but professionally, I think it’s very bad. DIXON My idea exactly. Of course, if Belasco----. (_Exeunt_) GLOSSARIES I A Vaudeville Glossary (_Embracing Translations and Explanations of Such Words and Phrases as Are Used Regularly in Vaudeville, and Necessary to a Comprehension of Vaudeville by Persons Who Do Not Wear Soft Pleated Shirts with Dinner Jackets._) _Knock-out_--The designation of a performance which has succeeded in completely captivating the advertising solicitor for a weekly vaudeville paper. _Wop_--A term of derision directed at an Italian who earns a difficult livelihood digging ten hours a day at subways by an American actor who earns an easy livelihood digging twenty minutes a night at Ford automobiles. _A scream_--The designation of an allusion to the Prince of Denmark in Shakespeare’s celebrated tragedy as “omelet.”