8:30
You could n't wait as long on five dollars as you could on ten . Then on the afternoon of a day that promised to end as other days had ended , a wave of animation swept through the waiting room and the casting office . `` Swell cabaret stuff '' was the phrase that brought the applicants to a lively swarm about the little window . Evening clothes , glad wraps , cigarette cases , vanity-boxes -- the Victor people doing The Blight of Broadway with Muriel Mercer -- Stage Number Four at 8:30 to-morrow morning . There seemed no limit to the people desired . Merton Gill joined the throng about the window . Engagements were rapidly made , both through the window and over the telephone that was now ringing those people who had so long been told that there was nothing to-day .