The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-07-30

Every town has clyde Davis
God saw m Ia Its great plan for
thu world 10 send down into each
community somebody 20 make other
people laugh. Everything clyde
Davis did was funny AT least 10
us. who spent our rather liatloa5
days in Middlotown. Ind When he
came after his mail the poatofficc
always rang with good shout OF
old'faAhioned merriment. our church
socias went flat " clyde happened
TO be away in indianapolis seeing
a show, lie won more baseball
games for our school teams than
the members Of the nine. seriously
enough. His coming up 10 bat was
the signal for laughter. for he thus
clowned himself out OF the team,
In our amateur theatricals he
hhone best Our little local daily
would merely have 10 say;
THE play given next Tuesday
evening at the opera house has a
talented east, the chief comedy role
falling into the capable hands OF
our true humorist. clyde Davis
That was the trouble with MI
dred Walker She took Clyde's
loYomaking as Joke. Not that
she didn't carc-ahe did. For Mil
drod was a natural homemaker and
Mildred was rs. and Mildrod's
mother had married two years be-
fore the age OF 49, Mildred Wal
kor would Jingle under the quaint
bits Of iovemaklng performed By our
town humoriN-untii Ehe anw his
face and then she would break
from his arms with laughter say.
inR his face looked so much like
Buster Keaton's,
a year before. Mile graduated
from the local high school. clyde
had been out OF school three years
and was trying with friendly over.
lures % build up IA detected little
garage business taken over from a
slip'shod uncle, lie had the promise
Of good automobile agency when
he got on his feet and he would
have been standing there erect
months ago, had he had Mildred.
bu, She poohpoohed such an cxtraya,
CANT compliment.
Clyde. tho Clown" she would sny
with mock gravity. mustn't tell his
Little Queen naughty stories. Clydo
must speak only sober TRUTH Then
he would begin again but II was
always his serious comic face that
spoiled everything
Then. 20 make matters far worse.
two things came along. Tho ftfHt
was caiastrophe--Mi waikor
inherited nearly hundred thousand
dollars from her Grandfather Wal.
ker The second. was the advent OF
dramatic coach. who hailed from
Boston and coached PLAYS Tor a liy.
Ing. after an alleged successful fling
IN metropolitan vaudeville. The
whole thing looked like the make
up OF the old.fashloncd melodrana
with Clyde Davis the detected hero.
Millio the purchcartcd heroine. and
Do Woes Langdon Of Boston
the villain. But LanEdon looked
fnr from a dyedin.the.wooi Yankee
villain. lie was truly cultured
soul and knew times more about
local ihealricals than poor CLYDE
who had always assumed TO leader
ship BY virtues OF ability and en-.
crgy. Langdon talked knowingly
of 'baekstago acting and hog
glnE tho spotlight and very early
he branded Clyde n ham comedian
but he retained him in the cast.
for there was none other TO be
found
ono hesitates to jump at conelu.
hionS but az the local hotel several
OF US booba unwIsely told this Lang.
don OF Mildrcd'a fortune By way OF
getting reflected glory for our.
selves. From that tlmo on tho
Clown ambied down 10 the Blue
Front with us. after n cake" when
rchearsals were over But / being
already gnarried. studied out the nit.
nation dnd poor Clyde was merely
getting series OF polite ditch.
ings.
The night OF the play | saw clyde
take Mile to the darkest corner
Of the theator and saw her run
away from him knew tho Gig
was up between the two. clyde
muffed every chance for laugh
that night and was funny only be.
cause he was so miserable and acted
80 rottenly.
She came TO him afterward. I
think she felt guilty. maybe. He
told US that DE voss was leaving
after business arrangements the
next night and Mile was going
away with him. He confided in mo
the whole story Mile had told
him that her folks wero set on
Clyde and thought her real love
was tho coach ihfatuation. but
gosh. Be-" he said to me traEically.
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