South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-31

nous sayings OF the most foolish
philosophers that the world has ever
known.
Del Delano retired within his
0VcrCOat and hat. In TWO minutes
he emerged and turned his left side
10 Mac. Then he spoke
You've get foot movement.
kid. ike a baby hippopOtamus try
ing to side-step a jab from a hum
ming bird. And YOU hold yourself
like a truck driver having his pic
ture taken in a Third av. photo
graph gallery. And you haven't got
any method OF style And your
knees are about as Timber as a cou-
pie OF Yale pass-keys And YOU
strike the eye as weighing let u
saw $50 pounds while YOU work.
But. say. would YOU mind giving me
your name 2"
"McGOwan" said the BUNDLED
amateur-"Mac McGowan'
Delano the Great slowly lighted a
cigarette and continued through lis
smoke:
In other words you're rotten.
You can't dance. But I'll tell you
one thing you've got"
Throw IL all Oft your system while
you're at it," said Mac. "Whatve
got?"
Genius" said Del Delano "Ex-
cept myself. It's up 10 you 20 Doe the
best fancy dancer in the United
States. Europe, Asia. and the SCION
ial possessions OF all three"
Smoke up" said Mac Mac
Gowan.
Genius. repeated the Master -
you've got q talent for genius Your
brains are in your feet. where dan
GERS ought 10 be. You've been self
taught until you're almost ruined.
but not quite What YOU need is q
trainer. III take you in hand and
pat you at The top of the profess
sion. There's room there for the
two of US. y ou may beat me- said
the Master casting upon him "a cold,
savage look combining so muCn ri
valry, affection. justice and human
hate that it stamped him at once as
one of the little great ones OF the
earth-"yOu may beat me. but J
doubt IL. I've got the start ana the
pull. But AT the top is where YOU
belong Your name. you say, is
Robinson o.
MCGOWAN repeated the anna
teur. Mac MCGOWAN"
1t don't matter said Dglauo.
Suppose you walk up to my hotel
with me. I'd like TO talk to YOU.
Your foot-work is the worst ] ever
saw. Madiga Ia like to
talk 20 YOU. You may not think SO.
but I'm not so stuck up. / came OFT
of the West Side myself That over
coat cost me $500, but the collar
amt $50 high but what can see
over il. 1 taught myself to dance.
and ] put i'm most Of nine years at
it before / shook foot in public.
But 1 had genius. I didn't go too
far wrong in teaching myself as
you've done. You've got the rotten
est method ana styles OF anybody
/ ever saw
"Oh. 1 dent think much Of the
few little steps ! take said Mac.
with hypocritical lightness.
Don't talk like "a package of self
raising buckwheat flour" said Del
Delano. You've got a. talent hand
ed 20 YOU by the Proposition Higher
Up; and its up TO YOU to do the
proper thing with it, ia like 20
have you 80 up TO my hotel for "A
talk, il you Will.
In his rooms in the King Clovis
hotel. Del Delano put ON a scarlet
house coat bordered with gold %rsid
and set out ApOllinaris and &; box
of sweet crackers.
Macs eye wandered.
Forget it," said Del Drink and
tobacco may be all right for man
who makes his living with his hands.
but they won't do If you're depend
ing on your head or your feet. II
. Ia a.
the other That's why beer and
cigarettes don't hurt piano players
and picture painters. But you've
got to cut EN- out If you want TO
do mental or pedal work. Now. have
Ia cracker, and then Wen talk some.
"Au right" said Mac. Il take IL as
IAN honor, OF course, for you TO no.
tice my hopping around. OF course
I'd like TO do something in "a pro-
feSsional line OF course 1 can sing
a little and do card tricks and Irish
and German comedy stuff. and OF
course I'm not so bad on the trapeze
ard comic bicycle stunts and He
brew monolOgues and"
"One moment" interrupted DE
Delano, before we begin. I said
YOU couldn't dance. Well, that
wasn't quite right You've only Go'
two or three bad tricks in your me
thod. You're handy with your feet
and you belong at the top. where ]
am. I'll put YOU there. I've got
six weeks continuous in New York
and i'm four / can shape up yOui
style till the booking agents viii
fight one another 70 get you. And
I'll do it, TOO. I'm OF, from, and
for the West Side. Del DelanO
looks good on bill-bOards. but the
family names Crowley. Now
Northumberland wan, l mean -
you've got your chance-50 times a
better one than l had"
I'D be a shine to turn It down. "
said Mac. And I hope you under
stand 1 appreciate 1t. Me and nay
cousin Cliff MCGOWAN was thinking
OF getting a try-out at Creary's or
amateur night a month from tomor-
row"
Good stuff" said Delano. Il go
mine there. Junius T. Rollins the
booker for Kuhn * DooIey, jumped
on the stage and engaged me after