For instance, take What's-her-name, that plays those sensational thunder and lightning parts.

She's got a perfectly immense reputation--draws like a dog-fight--and it all came from getting burnt out in hotels." "Why, how could that give her a reputation as an actress ?" "It didn't--it only made her name familiar.

People want to see her play because her name is familiar, but they don't know what made it familiar, because they don't remember.

First, she was at the bottom of the ladder, and absolutely obscure wages thirteen dollars a week and find her own pads." "Pads ?" "Yes--things to fat up her spindles with so as to be plump and attractive.
Well, she got burnt out in a hotel and lost $30,000 worth of diamonds." "She?
Where'd she get them ?" "Goodness knows--given to her, no doubt, by spoony young flats and sappy old bald-heads in the front row.

All the papers were full of it.