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:" You see, it had in it wealth, degeneracy, rich old wasters, delectable young chorus girls and adolescent artists ' models ; the behind-the-scenes of Theatredom and the Underworld, and the Great White Way .... the abnormal pastimes and weird orgies of overly aesthetic artists and jaded debauchees.

In the cast of the motley show were Bowery toughs, Harlem gangsters, Tenderloin panderers, Broadway leading men, Fifth Avenue clubmen, Wall Street manipulators, uptown voluptuaries and downtown thugs.