The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-02

Its all very well to talk about
me having a cinch in that kissing
song complained Arthur Dunn, the
diminutive comedian Of "The Runa-
ways who causes a thrill of envy to
percolate through the masculine por-
ton of the audience when he executes
his A Kiss for Each day in the week
speciality, assisted by the six beauti-
full widows, the star show girls of the
opera.
"Kissing is all right and I don't
say a word against these widows, but
I think the public ought to under
stand that while it may look like a
snapshot from the front I am earning
my salary by hard work.
"In the first place it takes all the
enjoyment out of a kiss to have a girl
fussing about her gown all the time
If / am to do that kissing song I
think those widows ought to discard
those $4,000 punches Of chiffon and
lace and wear something that will
stand for a little gentle embracing.
"The kiss may look good from
down In front, but here's the line Of
talk | get handed out to me every
time [ try to kiss one of those wild
ows:
"Don't you dare tear this gown or
I'll have you settle the bill out Of
your W salary.
"While another is pursuing up her
lips in a way to inspire every man in
the audience to apply for the job of
understudy, I am informed to keep
my distance and not dare rub the
make up off her face.
"When | kiss another she gives
me a sigh and murmurs "Thank
goodness, that's over' and in spite
Of those cruel things l have to re
spond to an encore.
"People who applaud may envy me
and may think they know something
about OSCILLATION. but they don't
know the pangs of anguish in stage
kissing. Ny song is supposed TO be
A Kiss for Each Day in the Week,
but I certainly have to work ocer-
tive. There are eight days in all OF
my weeks.
"Figure it out for yourself-six
kisses to each chorus and five encor S.
There's t~hirty-six kisses. Seven per-
formances a week two hundred and
fifty two kisses. At the end Of forty
weeks ten thousand and eighty kiss
es, will be placed to my credit.
"Dancing anyway. the inconveni-
ence Of kissing a pretty girl on a lad
der or on stills. Instead of getting
from the widows though,
when I try to balance myself on
stills and look p~leadingly for a kiss,
a girl murmurs soto voice:
"Lookout, you're going over, don't
you dare tare my dress.
"I got six kisses while standing on
my dear little golden ladder, but
that isn't all that comes to me. While
I'm singing Here's a Kiss for Mon
day and am trying to imprint a kiss
on the girls lips, she is trying to push
the ladder away from that five hun
bred dollar bunch Of feminine wear
ing apparel.
"Can you imagine where much
pleasure comes in Here's a kiss for
Wednesday when I think most of
you,' when you are bracing yourself
so that your voice won't do tremolo
stunts with the ladder and at the
time are being encouraged by
a girl tell you that the chiffon
her gown is caught on the ladder
and she will have you fined if you're
not careful.
~ suppose those widows gowns
are about the most expensive punches
of loneliness a press agent ever
wrote about, but it's a shame to put
them in a kissing song, especially
when they get kissed 81 tall you have
OF use stills and ladders.
"Bring on the fellers who say [
have a snap. Kisses are all right. but
for mine let's cut out the glare Of the
footlights and a bunch of widows who
think more of those swell gowns than
they do Of the opportunity of being
by me-"
Miss Bob White.