Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-01-23
Letters from a
Correspondence
School Actor

didn't agree with me, and I've always heard
that It amt healthy to go In swmmin' with a
full stomach" and he said: Wen strike rough
water pretty and you won't be troubled
any more"
Don't you ever eat sardines and bananas all
at the same time. Dave and tell Mabel not to-
but don't say nothing to Lafe and Thorn, be-
after they said what you said they said
in your letter about that girl that took for
J. Warren Kerrigan working bunco game on
me, they amt friends of mine any more.
When they got them smoke pots going It
looked just as If the ship was on fire and
there was a woman with baby in her arms.
and / thought she going to jump with IL
and told her she ought to be ashamed of her
self because bet the child had full stomach.
too because them emigrants are always feed
ing their kids.
And she showed 1t nothing but a
dummy, and says did you do this before.
and l said no, but have swum lots, and she
says them directors ought to be prosecuted
for taking greenhorns out to do water stuff.
She didn't mean me, because | told her about
what a good swimmer l was, but she meant
some of them others that was just extras
Well, they started to jump The little fell
low with the long hair jumped first. and then
I thought that maybe some of them smoke pots
might set the ship on fire sure enough, and /
thought somebody that knowed something about
acting like do had ought to go and see.
So ! back to the forepart of the castle,
which is part of the ship they call by that
name to see if maybe there was any danger
and the assistant director seen me and he said.
You trying to hide"'
And I said NO I'm not trying to hide"
just like that. What do you think ann
And he said: We'll you'd better get
there and do your jump, because were going
to blow her up everybody is oft,
and you'd better jump while the jumping
good
I didn't set chance to hit the water right.
and come down kinda all over, and me with a
sick stomach. l could have the raft
all right but I forgot the Pacific Ocean water
salty and swallowed lot OF it. and that
with them sardines and bananas made
sick that I started back to the ship, and the
next thing I knew | clean down on the
pottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Pretty [ come up and swallered some
more of the Pacific Ocean, and didn't know
anything till I found myself the raft, and
the little fellow with the kinda long hair that
| told you about before In this letter had pulled
out.
Well, it was all Joke about them going u
blow up that ship. We all got back on it, and
they paid Off, 81 apiece. That's what they
give movie actors for doing water stuff Well,
7 hunted up the fellow with the Snoa long
hair and told him how it that l coulI
swim all right. but that I'd ate some sardines
and bananas and was kinda sick and couldn't
swim good, and he said: Gee, you're lucky.
] haven't eaten anything FOR two days. What
do YOU know about that, DaVe?'
Ard then a l'g fener-bisger'n l am, Dave
come to the little Teller and tried to take his
money away from him. and the little Teller
didn't want TO give it up, and the big Teller
called him little CRATER and began to twist
his arms to make him give up the money. and
the little chap got all white around the lips and
said, You know Totue's sick and I've got to
buy cough medicine for her"
He said it kinda Ike he talking to me.
I,,x-a
the same thing Maybe you wouldn't, though,
because this gnk almost big that
bouncer they used to have down at the Dream
land. but you know how ] when I get
started Dave, and besides, I was feeling bet
ter at my stomach. and just him him back
handed lick, and he sat down the floor So
hard he shook the ship, and the little Teller ran
away.
Just getting off the ship he come
up to and said, II you some money. II
you can change this s. bill I'll pay you 81. and
then can I'll give you some more
I thought he wanted to pay for knocking
that Teller down, Dave, and says, You don't
me nothing. Besides, you pulled me out of
the water and saved me from getting drowned"
And he says Were even on that part pulled
you out OF the briny deep and you gave my old
man Jolt he won't forget for long time. But
oNe YOU some money Just the anne for some
thing else you don't know about"
And what do YOU think Dave, he wasn't a
boy at all. but girl. and what girl do you
guess ii was Dave? 1t that little movie
actress that mstook for j. Warren Kerri-
gan. that ate supper with and 1t So
and then ducked And she told she wasn't
little CRATER like the big stn said she was,
but she hungry that night and just had TO
eat and she wasn't afraid of me treating her
rough because she could tell ] a country
boy. and besides I do look a good deal like J.
Warren Kerrgan from distance
That big stiff is her father, Dave, and he's
got two more girls and they all actors, but
not movie actors, just stage actors, and they
can't get job acting on the regular stage be-
cause the movies have put the regular stage or
the bum. and IN tell you about it the next tim,
! write, Dave
/ guess you and Mabel and LATE and Thorn
will all be going down to the Dreamlsnd to Sc,
me acting in the movies pretty soon now Dave
I give you the leave to take Mabel to tn,
you. Dave. and | hope she don't get Jealous
when she sees me kissing all them actresses
like I'll have to do when get to playing regu
/, lar In the movies. She hadn't ought to- Dave
for that's all part OF the business, and cir
can't expect Teller to give up his career car
S she? Well, so long Dave.
THOMAS BOGGS.
I Stage Name, Clarence Clavering.
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