tenderloin had dance halls like the starring carter in oklahoma and stephen crane was a hot young novelist, william randolph hearst, who was the hot new newspaper mogul hired to write a piece for the new york journal. the tenderloin was an old timer, told him somebody blowing champagne to the house. diamonds, girls, lights, music over sixth avenue. wasn't room enough. it held the side streets. it was great. so what were the dream girls of the 1890s like? this is lillian russell, star of the stage. any engineer will tell you that about any like that needs support. the brassiere had not yet been invented and women's dependent on horses -- corsets. these instruments of torture compacted waste and lifted the bosom. what pretty ideal measurements of women of the 1890s? this surprised me. this woman, posed as american venus is 5 foot 5 inches tall, weighs 151 pounds and the tablet announces her bust was 35, waste 32, hips 38. the dream girl of that era was 35-32-38 which is not like 36-24-36 playboy or anything. yesteryear's goddess would be going to wait watchers today. when she got dressed she