The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-06-30

"Sure, men are a WOW" Miss Leila
Leone confessed TO Miss Claudia
puke, her best professional friend.
e,icaric, you said a whole converse
lion then | remember a gag that
one wise john put over on mo that
shines out Of my past like a mono
laguists ice ring across tho orches,
ira but YOU Amt In no ft mood
FOR the confession patter. Claudia.
shoot said Miss Duke. hitChing
herself up on Miss Lcano's profess
sonal trunk in her friends two-hy-
Two nom up In good old Martello
kelly's ttth s. boarding house one
sultry night. resting round New
York this way. dearie. I ain't had a
laugh IN my system Tor a month OF
sundays
leila was in reminiscent humor,
ono of those l-dare- you-t to- stop me-
sort She needed no urging.
This Was years hack" Leila start
ed putting an extra pillow back or
her head and making herself as com
Portable as possible. on the wreck OF
a sofa. BERTHE kestler was massag-
ing the tall weeds out 81 CHI with a
number three company Of BABY
Blue Eyes
SAY, | remember that layout" in
,srruptcd Claudia. enthusiastically.
thereby showing her rapt attention.
-You had Myrtle Percy and Teddy
Roach
AS leads Sch. Some frame-up.
that company. IN tell the rube world
that We shook down, Anyway Il
was a blinky season and box offices
as busy as Coney Island In January.
Wen. Claudia. we opened In Pickle.
Minnesota-that's about as far a.
Berthe could take US on the money
be dug up in Chi"
Pickle. Minnesota" This last
from Claudia with squeal OF delight.
That's the hlek town with the hotel
With two baths-eoldi and colder; l
remember"
~Yeh. some baby burb-for a cock
roach. tell mel" snorted Leila. And
other animals Well. Claudia. in
the show I was playing Gwendolyn
Kale and BERTHE had wished one big
lemon number on me In the sec
ord act / went 10 the mat with an
alleged song entitled; YOU Stop Max
Ing Those Dating Eyes AZ Me-"
"Hones,g"
Il wouldn't 20 that far hut IL was
the rottenest song ever had heard
in all my young 'ite Il had mo
melody. the words were cuckoo and
Il begun where Il should have left
off,
Outside Of that Il was a riot.
sympathiEed Claudia 'OC course you
qusered Il and had II shelved"
Il tried. but couldn't Leila sigh
cd. "Bertie made Il plain TO me my
meal ticket was twin to that gosh
awful song. II IL didn't go. / did So
sang my little heart out In Il and
everywhere we played. Popping
Greek. South Dakota: Echo. Kansas
Green Top, Iowa. all over the jay
circuit. I wns a graveyard riot"
Leila, one night stands Is the
limit. Those Swedes don't know
an the casa OF this cheese OF a
song. dearis, they did. A baby luna
tic would have asked for his money
hack after having heard Mary Gar
den sing it,
What's that got 10 do With some
wise john pnttinE--"
I'm serving that now" interrupt
ed Leila. Somehow the show held
on and in Cross Cut. Nebraska,
think Il was, noticed him first oui
there in front Hhe showed up like
a five dollar gold piece In handful
% pennies and then all Of sudden
Ike an idea gets thru your bean.
remembered having seen him some.
where out IN the rube audiences iT
every hound Of town we had played
that wheezy show In since Pickle
MINI.
This John had been following yot
the show: gwan,"
You're no more astonished thar
] was. Claudia. and in Cross Cut
where We played three nights In or.
der 10 scrape up enough TO get out
every JAMS In our company got wise
TO Mr.. I.amp-the- show"
Register him with IRE. Leila: good
looking9"
Claudia. with half Of the hicks lr
the Wild West for hackdrop ant
contrast, that duck looked like 3
message from Broadway to us poor
homesick hams He was kinda
young and kinda good looking--no'
suspiciously anything. And he wa
dressed up 10 the last split second
What on earth was a human be-
ing doing out there with the wilt
and wooIiies? Course you met him
song or no song. dating eyes or nc
eyes. huh7'
That's the kick to my story
Claudia. Nobody in Baby Blue Eyes
ever saw that bird anywhere except
In front at night"
TN little towns like them? with