Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-08-12
A Trip to
Louisville
By ROSCOE C. STOTT

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hang out a dozen months of Il year. We
read Louisville papers. We tune into
Louisville whenever we use our crys
tai sets. We sing the songs we heard
on our last trip to that gay little burg
And when you run q movie" house,
you try to book the shows they have
read about in the papers Of the big
city. For commencement we get a
Louisville minister; for the Fourth,
Louisville lawyer.
Yes sir, | get Louisville pictures for
my movie" house And ] went sail
ing into a big piece of coin there for a
while. That is before my operator,
Bob Hammond, went coo-coo. Before
that he was as steady as clock. Mil
bred Hoskins was my organist.
But Bob asked for lay-otf SAID
he ought to be progressive and see the
cages other operators worked in,
was afraid I'd lose him SO l gave IN
and ground off the reels myself. letting
my kiddo take in tickets at the door
and mother sell all she could ut the
window.
Just before he left Bob came up
sheepishly.
81 want to be fair to Mildred, Sam.
| It's doggone easy to hold her hand, and
she lets me. You see Mildred an me-
then he ended by saying: I'm TWEEN
| ty-four and now mothers gone ! want
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. II don't want
to make any mistakes | thought I'd
go to Louisville" There you are
! Louisville. I've never been there
| Sam and before / do tie up |
thought
1t seems he got terribly excited when
he saw the big town he had read so
much about. And then came the big
times at picture houses.
And Louisville has the prettiest girls !
in the country
Meantime Mildred came to me and |
was very Still when | asked her had |
she heard from Bob. No he hadn't |
written Woodland it had been ten |
days.
You see Bob had gone to church and |
they had spotted him and got his al |
dress and he vas meeting Young folks I
at their meetings. And of course that'S |
all right but my showhouse and my |
organ'st WAS nothing less than going
straight to the rocks.
Well, | shut down Eidded myself |
into thinking I needed a rest, but /
mother pooh-poohed all that Anyway
| up and slips off to Louisville myself
and took little lady with me. Told
her I wanted her to hear some Of the
real organiets in the big town.
found Bob had joined the operating
staff in the city's biggest movie |
watched and saw him coming to work
at the hour the management said he
would be in the pilothouse for duty,
and ! managed it so he wouldn't see
me, either. Later he took home the
organist that alternated with the or
chestra. Next night | made myself
known and he was tickled pink-or
looked it. But told me he could not
eat with me as he had this Esther, the
organist, and girl for a date. asked
him Where-and he confessed it was
costing him some jack, but he wanted
to show Esther he was no piker and
so on.
Well | pulled d funny stunt | found
IA small theatrical agency and it cost
me twenty five dollars to hire "a beau
for Mildred. That is just what it was
nothing less. | got him for twenty
and gave him five dollars to spend on
dinner, and that ham actor out of a
job smiled sadly as put the two into
taxi and started them off to the res
taurant that Bob had named.
BY rights Bob was to look on, get |
desperately jealous according to photo
play yarns, and leave Esther. Fade
out with Mildred, Bob, and baby two !
years later under rose-trell!s IL |
Hickston.
Not so.
The place went suddenly dark. A
colored waiter had been told TO keep |
his place Race feeling had been kin |
died in a moment of time Panicky |
diners We're cropping their way to the |
door. There was a crash of broken |
china and the flash of a pistol. Screams |
followed and mingled cries and oaths.
Hardly minute had elapsed Whel |
the light flashed back on. The mana
ger came in, to be followed later by
bluecoats proverbially bit late. At
the light stood Bob in a newly pur
chased tuxedo Not another diner re
NAMED save one--it was Mildred, who
stood beside him.
81 thought of the Iight-but you beat
me, Bob. You're used to quick think
| ing. aren't you?'
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