Booby Hatch
Psychiatric hospital
Girdle
A women's undergarment that often includes boning or elastic worn to slim the waist
Ever-loving
Faithful, completely devoted
Megalomaniac
An egotist or a self-centered person
Cockamamie
Ridiculous, silly, nonsensical
Radcliffe
Women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, MA. The sister college of Harvard at the time.
make a buck
earn money
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A fantastical romantic comedy play by William Shakespeare
Thespis
According to Greek history, the first person to ever appear on a stage as a character (rather than as himself)
Stage door
The door by which actors enter the theater to get to their dressing rooms
Gettysburg
The setting for the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War
Fort Sumter
A sea fort and the site of two battles in the American Civil War
The Hairy Ape
expressionist play by Eugene O'Neill about a beastly laborer
Byron
Lord Byron, a romantic poet, a politician, and a renowned Casanova from England
Clyde Fitch
An American playwright, popular on Broadway between 1890 and 1910
Benzedrine
The first pharmaceutical drug to contain amphetamine
Notions counter
old fashioned department store
Trappist Monks
A branch of Cistercian monks, men of the church who live outside of society
understudy
A person who learns someone else's part in order to stand in for them in the case of illness or absence
harpy
A monster with a woman's head and the body of a bird
