Crossword-Solution: STAGELAND 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

JEROME AUTHOR OF ‘THREE MEN IN A BOAT,’ ‘IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW,’ ‘STAGELAND,’ ‘JOHN INGERFIELD,’ ETC.

And I suppose that a condensed list of your ideas about the mysterious stageland would boil down to something like this: Leading ladies have five husbands, paste diamonds, and figures no better than your own (madam) if they weren’t padded.

Sometimes, however, the father is merely a "Scientist"--which in Stageland is another term for helpless imbecile.

Sam could picture the performances, the little dimly-lighted schoolhouses with the weatherbeaten faces shining in the light of the leaky magic lantern, and the delighted Windy running here and there, talking the jargon of stageland, arraying himself in his motley and strutting upon the little stage.

Action is the greatest thing in the world.' THE CONVERTS THE CONVERTS I As he sat on his hard stool in the whitewashed workshop on the Bowery, clumsily pasting the flamboyant portrait on the boxes of the 'Yvonne Rupert cigar,' he wondered dully--after the first flush of joy at getting a job after weeks of hunger--at the strange fate that had again brought him into connection, however remote, with stageland.