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Updated: May 14, 2025

I tell you these things to assure you, even if you can't believe it, that many, very many of the stage people are workers with abiding ambitions just the same as the man who wants to be president, or the grocery clerk who wants a home in Flatbush, or a lady who is anxious to flop out of the Count-pan into the Prince-fire.

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