Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-13
CHAPTER II
Second Inning tcontinuep
Riverside's Drive, N. Y.

Dear Joe:
Joe, II they Is a lotta ink spots and
plots on this. don't blame me beeaus,s
can't help it, I have been through
tome terribly things since ! last wrote
Nou and It amt over yet. 1 gotta start
against Brooklyn tomorrow and II they
don't paste me all over the lot, then
they yin never Tn Of SS me s" joe
d guy facing the electrical chair, am
got thing on his mind ana still nn any
Rll I am a innocent victim WniSn
wouldn't harm a fly, unless maybe II ht
on me somewheres.
Well, Joe, when we pull into Rev
York I am all ready TO dash for the
telephone and let Jeanne know | am
home when there she, is right AZ the
ktation and lockin like Morgan's in
come tax looked to the revenue guys
Before I can say anything am bein'
smothered with kisses and asked never
10 go away again and people is turn,n IN
10 look at US and what do | care. We
used up about half hour saytn hell2
and then get taxi and go home and
Jeanne SAYS she's got a surprise for me,
but don't pay Ss no oouin atteT'on s hcr y" and and
thinln' what lucky guy | am and IS
they maybe somethin' else | can do Pc
sides play baseball. Well, of course, the
FIRST thing I wanna see is my baby ana.
Joe, he is fine and so is everything else
and Jd@nne goes outa her way to be
nice and the like and II was Just IKE
II was before them swell" friends or hers
rome across our path
:. Well. Joe. the next day Is when the
Terrible blow falls.
! ain't got nothin' In the afternoon
and I ask Jeanne where she wants to
20 and she says let's go to the movies
like we used to. Well Joe. I am so
happy by this time that the roof couln
of fell in and I wouldn't or minded
because 7 don't own 1t anyways ana
fgure that Jeanne must of canned her
rev found friends and decided 10 stick
with little old Ed for once and all. Joe.
] says where would she like to go ana
she says they is a movie called twas
/ Is great. and let's go TO that and I says
NIL right. and we set sail When we
get to the theatre, Joe, Jeanne won't
have II no other way but we got TO get
seats right on top of the screen ana
they cost fifty cents the each, but what's
the difference as long as it's my own
wife. hey, Joe?
I Well. Joe. what the picture was all
about I fear I will never know. l left
that there theatre three minutes after
come in boiln' with rage and ready
TO bite nails in half. not that nobody
asked me to. The very first scene was
in a ball room and they is about fifty
different people dancn' around and the
like but amongst them fifty Is one
person which caused me TO let out N
holler which was heard all over that
Theatre Joe / know you will seriously
that movie was no less than Jeanne!
My Gawd hey?
Joe. Jeanne grabs my arm and asks
me not to make no scene in the theatre
and we get up and go out whilst every
body else forgets about the picture and
watches US
Well. l am so crazy mad, Joe. that
call taxi and we go home in that for
$3.50 and they amt a wordN said all the
way up except Jeanne bitin' her nails
and me starin' straightly and coldly
slead ahead. once in our fiat I closed
the door and In a voice which cut like
a razor, I demand a explanation.
IS / got what I ordered, Joe!
First Jeanne tells me not to talk to
her like she was a ball player and take
off my hat and stand up til she sits
like I am in trance, she tells me that
the movie director she had at her
''diuner party" had offered her a chance
TO supe in this picture for five berries
il was only right that she oughta help
pay the expenses of our home and she
took the job and had saved all the
money she got and didn't see a thing
wrong with it, Everybody had been
very nice and gentelmanly to her and l
oughta be glad she was doin' her bit in
stead of bawlin' her out.
! Well, Joe, I go temporarily nutty and
who woudn't-you never seen Jeanne
and says l am perfectly capable OF
L
ain short II necessary, but whilst am
payin' the bills don't let her ever dare
10 do such thing like that again. Well.
Joe, it goes back and forth and back ana
forth and we amt gettin nowheres ana
finly Jeanne busts out and says the
movie guy has told her she has the
makin's OF a star and he will guar
antee to put her over and her salary
tho first year will be 10000 iron men
hnd that's more that / get. Joe, ! starr
10 rave again and she cuts me off cold
and sharp and claims that she only
suped in this picture TO make me see
that she was able to earn her own
Twin and she don't really like workin'
In the movies. but she does like her in
dependence and all the French Is like
that, and II you don't believe It. ask
Germany. Joe, she winds up by sayn'
that either I cast about for Gomethin'