This Book is Dedicated To:
-The second chorus cutie from the right who just happens to know all the steps when the star twists her ankle at the last minute before curtain...
-The drab little secretary who takes off her glasses -- and, prest, she's a pin-up girl...
-The heiress (or princess or world-famed type) who is mistaken for her own maid by that nice young man...
-The poor girl who is mistaken for the heiress (or princess or world-famed type), by that nice young man...
-The girl-shy student who tutors the college football hero to a passing mark in chemistry...
-The kids who put on a variety show to raise money for the sweet old lady who is going to be evicted (or the little girl who will go into an orphanage...or the old professor whose dream is a new school library, etc.)...
-The old music master (or father or the musician) who conducts weakly from his hospital bed as the radio brings his protege's concert debut...
-The lovesick sailor (solder, airman) who sings about his sweetheart on the empty deck (barracks, hangar) which instantly becomes crowded with dancing girls -- all looking like his sweetheart...
-The cowboy who sings to his horse on the lonely prairie -- all alone except for the 200-piece orchestra which is suddenly heard in accompaniment...
-The small-time vaudeville tea who split up when one is wanted by Ziegfeld but get back together after the rising one gets the big-head and flops...
-The personality-plus girl who always says, "Listen, kids -- I have an idea!"...
Without their help -- and the help of all like them -- these movies could not have been made, and this book could not have been written.