The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
DOLLY'S JOB

| 1(r just goes on to show Gin my case particularly that if you don't hold
 = on to your own dear job. somebody'n get it when you least expect it.
 Referring to?
 Just this:
 While I was a vacationing up in New York town, galvinating and pirouetting about with kings and dukes and million aires, and theatrical managers, and
 things (which I'm going to tell you about, or most all next Sunday, down
 here in little old Birmingham Mir. Wal ter S. Crosbie, the new manager of the Lyric, was arriving and honestly I hate to tell it-btit the business manager, the perfectly good business manager, of my paper, who never writes a line (except checks and things), calmly stepped in and oorralled my job and broke into print Introducing MT. Walter g. Crosbie, the Lyrics new manager" Gin Rotary known asf"Walt'D, and wrote just the ceverest and most attractive story which has ap- peared in this neck of the woods for many moons about this nice young man. r Of course, I am sort of' spoiled about being the official introducer'' of im- portant people who come to Birmingham, and-well--it just goes on to prove what I started out to say. that you'd better hold on tight to your own dear job or the goblins Cor the "B. M.'O or some am bilious scribe on some other newspapers, or even your own, twill git you if you don't watch out.
 But, it's all right! If I do say it my self, I possess one good trait-I'm not jealous cat: I haven't a jealous bone in my little old body; it's all for the good of the cause, and even if nice MT. Null lins, my bossy "business manager" did get the first say so" about MT. Crosbie, Pm not "peeved," because being vim
 nins," as Lew Fields says, I've got to have the Hast word,' and this is the very last word about the good looking young manager of Birminghams popular playhouse--the Lyric
 A casual glance at Mir. Crosbie, and you'd say he's 2S, but when you mention this he scrowls and looks terribly au- gust and dignified and declares svocifer- ously:
 You flatter mel"
 And then because the boy didn't guess right, the very first time you have an- other guess coming to you, but by this time you've skipped over unimportant things like age and all that, and you find yourself telling the nice young man what the ''big bugs up in New York town were saying about him, and l may as well tell you that the compliments were stacked in punches in his favor.
 "Hobnobbing' with the Interstate Amusement company magnates, in their big offices up in the Palace Theatre building, New York, I heard many charming things about MT. Crosbie, fnom Miss Celia Bloom, the clever girl who does the ''bookings' for the southwestern circuit of the Interstate Amusement company, where Mir Crosbie has been To- cated for the past few years, and also from MT. Jules Delmar, who signs up Birminghams Lyric attractions. Now, then, after I got all this out Of my system, and MT. Crosbie and l were fairly we'll acquainted. we began to talk about things here at home, especial ly the splendid personnel of the Lyric, which includes MT. Oscar K Wasson, treasurer, whose affability and always agreeable personality has been one of the biggest assets at this popular playhouse, and Mir. Fred Montebarre, who numbers his friends by the thousands in Birming- ham. and whose name is so closely iden- tified with everything that goes to make the Lyric a success, and then we got down to brass taeks' and talked "bus- ineSsr'
 Plans, acts, policy, patronage, and dozen other things that go toward making theatre big success, are numbered in a managers "liabilties,' and with the broad school of experience which MT. Crosbie has graduated from he is mas ter of the situation-plus
 Fifteen years ago." MT. Crosbie said,