"Showroom" Quotes from Famous Books
... star in three or four months. It is only the foolish ones who dream of such a possibility. It takes time and experience to get on at a big time house like the Palace Theatre in New York City, which is recognized as Broadway's best showroom for the vaudeville artist. Look at the history of the stars you know. Evelyn Law worked four years before she reached her present Broadway fame. Ann Pennington has been working fifteen years, Fred and Adele Astaire nearly fourteen years—and I can name all the stars on Broadway ... — The Art of Stage Dancing - The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession • Ned Wayburn
... pavement, outside the showroom which Mosenthal called a gallery, gazing up the road towards Oxford Street, with a momentary appreciation of the subtile early evening charm, which lent so real a beauty even to a vista of commonplace shop-fronts and chimney-pots, straightening his ... — A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore |