The independent-reporter., 1922-07-20
A Letter FROM Tom Hogan
Me Room. skowhegan, Main.


wuz sorry whin yez got the tillygram
to go home to yer wife and hev to
miss the play at Lakewood. 1t wuz
a corker. A regular peaeharine.
(What ever that is.)O Mac, wint
out in me car on Fr day night and
took Casey wild me. On the way into
the park | was met wild foine bit of
surprise party, fer the road was in
great shape as they hey it all fixed
up and it is now a RALE INTRANCE
to a place of amuzemini. | had to
wait for Casey for half an hour as
he wanted to put on his new suit to
gve the girruls treat and we were
late gittin in, but at that 1t was only
a quarter after eight whin We rached
the park and we had the d4yils own
tonne TO git place to park the car,
there wuz SO many ottymobiles there.
But | managed to skooze in bethwine
a Limmyzlne and a Henry, so Lizzy
rested very well. But ! must tell
you about the pla and the actors.
VIII II we got to the theatre We hap
pened to sp two impty seats right on
the alleyway. (Two fellas had gone
out to hit the Soda bottles and we
copped the seats). We were right
feminist the stage and cud look the
actors straight in the face. The fun
started right from the jump. ! am
goin to tell ye about it iist as it hit me
and yez can think what liver way ye
plazc, but I'll tell, ye now. ye m ssed
a CRATE treat.
tn
min on the stage. The were Dick
Thornton and Jack Harrington, two
Irishmin. Mike | got sore in minnit.
They were both playin lnglshmin!
Well, sir,-but lave it go, they were
very fo ne servants. | wuddent moind
it SO much if they weren't Irish Thin
selves, but-Well. | hope they don't
do it agin. They were as full of fun
as cage of monkeys at circus
They WIZ great pair-to draw to.
1t all happened in Bobby Hudson S
nome down on Long Island near Yap-
hank, | think. Il niver knew Bobby
had homo, down therc) But ye2
niycr kin tell what thin actors hev.
There wouldn't hev been any trouble
at all at all. If Ken Thomson hadn't
acted 10 kc a chump two years ago
and gev Marvee Snow nice silk
shimmy and put his name on it. Now
wasn't thet Il h of a thing to do
an he gon to marry another girrul?
Well Ken was afraid that Marvee
wud tell his wolfe thet her husband
gave her the shimmy and thet he wud
hey the diNils own time squar it.
So he goes an tries to git it back
from her. She wulddont give it UP
and like drowdin man wild the straw
he tried to ct it back. But she
had it ON and he culdn't e it. He
goes. like a chump, aud takes Doris
Carpenter into his confidence and tells
her his secrit. thin the trouble began.
Cud yer imagine the silly lout bclavin
a woman cud keep secrit? Not so
as ye could notice it, The only way
woman cud keep seer it to KEEP
IT COIN. livery tonne one of thin
told the other one abont it they got
the wrong naming to it and at last
the shimmy was thought to be rale
lowe baby. | niVCr saw SO much
fnn made out of "A shimmy n my loife.
And such nice Rose Pink one at
that. First one got it and then the
other got and then no one had it
and thin it was stolen and thin it
was lost and thin we'll, niver mind,
it was there and it was not there.
non me word, ! felt sorry fer Ken
Thomson Il wonder why he don't
spell his name wild a P0 You sec,
Marvce Snow and Eda Heincman,
Il don't loike that name, it sounds
like one av the ka ser's sublictsl and
Enla Guy tWhere in the name OF all
thels wonderful did they pluck thin
namesD They all got tOgithcr and
started playin tricks on the min, and
in doin So got into hot water thin
selves. Marvee had the little Rose
Pink shmmy on her person, but culd-
MT show it to any one, and poor Ken
Thomson wanted to see il so bad. And
be the power of Maloncys gray goose.
| thought she was goin' to show 1t to
him once WOW, Thin Eula Guy
got excited and tumblcd over in Il
faint and the bunch grabbed her and
took her up in Mabcls room and thin
the trouble started. Thet Ilarring-
ton Boy was in long box right at
the windy, and Ken Thomson was con-
coaled under the bed right under Ma
bells bed. do ye mo nd. And Mabel
about to retire. | tell y@i Mac,
it was a ticklish momint. Mabel
TUX her clothes off in front ~ the
whole house and tumblcd into bed, Il
MAN WAS UNDER THAT BED and
\ MAN WAS IN THAT WINDY BOX.
DO yez git me. Mac? Well. jist at
this criticize tonne, who would come
in thru the dure but Bobby Hudson,
the fella thct Marvee wuz goin TO
marry. But VIII n he finds two min
in the room, Well. lie gave thin
two looks! Anyway. things he'd
now reached the bilin pint thin Mar
yee up and tells the whole crowd how
she put on the job on the other fella S
wife to bate her. and it all comes out
in the wash tBut the water wuz very
durty). But everything wuz straighf
tened out in the end And a most en-
joyable eyenin wuz he'd be all" Bob
by marries Marvee, Ken makes up
W d his little wife and eyerybodYa
happy. avin Herbert SWEET fer
the house was large and the road that
leads to the lake wuz in fone shape
for the ottmobiles to git into the park
Rut Mac if was prCat show