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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: a scenic railway, a water toboggan slide, a concert band, a theatre, wild
animals, moving pictures, and so forth and so forth. The common people go
there to look at the animals and enjoy themselves, and the other people go
there to enjoy themselves by watching the common people enjoy themselves. A
democratic, fresh-air-breathing, frolicking affair, that's what the Loops are.
"But the theatre is what concerns you. It's vaudeville. One turn follows
another--jugglers, acrobats, rubber-jointed wonders, fire-dancers, coon-song
artists, singers, players, female impersonators, sentimental soloists, and so
forth and so forth. These people are professional vaudevillists. They make
their living that way. Many are excellently paid. Some are free rovers, doing
a turn wherever they can get an opening, at the Obermann, the Orpheus, the
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