Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-07-08
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Claudia Ddke- Hcf best prOlesS4oHdi
friend, "dearie, you said whole con
versation thea. | remember a gag
that one wise john put over on me
that shines out Of my past like
monologuist's glass ring across the Or
chestra. But you amt in no fit mood
for the confession patter, Claudia.
shoot !" said Miss Duke, hitching
herself upon Miss Leones profession
al trunk in her friends two-by-two
room .'resting round New York this
way, dearie, | 4lin't had a laugh In
my system for a month of Sundays"
Leila needed no urging.
"This was years back" Leila start
ed, putting an extra pillow back of
her head and making herself as com
Portable as possible on the wreck OF
sofa "Bertie kestler was massag-
ing the tall weeds out of Chi with a
number three company of Baby Blue
Eyes,
LAY, l remember that layout in
corrupted Claudia, thereby showing
her rapt attention. you had Myrtle
Percy and Teddy Roach"
LAS leads, yeh. Some frame-up.
HAT company, I'll tell the world that
We shook down Anyway it was
blinky season and box offices as busy
as Coney Island in January Well,
Claudia, we opened in Pickle, Mimi,
that's about as far as BERTHE could
take us on the money he dug up in
Chi"
pickle, Mimi. ~ This last from
Claudia with squeal of delight.
7 That's the town with the hotel with
two baths-cold and colder; l remem-
ber"
"Yeh, some baby burg-for a cock
roach, tell mel" snorted Leila. And
other animals! Well. Claudia, in
the show / was playing Gwendolyn
Kale and BERTHE had wished one big
lemon number on me. In the second
act | went to the mat with an alleged
song entitled: You Stop Mating
Those Dating Eyes at Me-.
1T was the rottenest song ! ever
had heard BERTHE made it plain to
me my meal ticket was a twin to that
9oshawful song If it didn't go, did.
SO sang my little heart out in 1t
and everywhere we played"
Leila, one-night stands is the lin
it, Those people don't know"
"In the case of this cheese of
song, dearie, they did A baby luna
tic would have asked for his money
back after having heard Mary Garden
sing it.
What's tfat got to do with some
wise john putting"
I'm serving that now" Interrupted
Leila. "Somehow the show held on
and in Cross Cut, Neb., l think it
was I noticed him first out there in
front"
This john had been following YOU
the show; gwan!'
You're no more astonished than
was, Claudia. And in Cross Cut
where we played three nights in or
der to scrape up enough to get out
every jane in our company got wise
10 MI Lamp-the-show."
what on earth was a human be-
ing doing out there with the wild and
woollies? Course you met him, song
or no song, dating eyes or no eyes,
huh?"
That's the kick to my story
Claudia Nobody in Baby Blue Eyes
ever saw that bird anywhere except
out in front at night"
"In little towns like them? With
one hotel? Gwan!"
CAS- a mystery, Claudia, he was
WOW, The Bat wasn't in with this
John Every night, out there piping
US off, in every town all the way out
to the coast And in the daytime, in
every town. among those missing"
Gee Leila, he musta got every
body's goat? kinda hoodoo?
mo, Claudia, because pretty soon
after Cross Cut he shows plain
enough that the big hand he's giving
Us each night is for me and that dat
ing nightmare ! was trying to sing"
"Oh. I'm beginning to get wise. lie
vas
"Wait, In Bevo Springs Calf, he
met me the night the show and the
seasor closed and took me out to the
best cafeteria in town. Before the
banquet, he slipped me two brand
new S100 Ills
"Shucl,s he was a song plngger
from T'inuan Alley and he was whoop-
ing up that punk song of yours all
over the WoolWorth circuit"
On * AGAIN Claudia"
Huh? Then he was a rubber
shoe for he angel in Chi that was
backing lertie and the show
80"
zone plot left. Somebody left the
back door &c hug factory open and
heir host nut escaped
an remember his words to my last
,tne on earth" Miss Leone chuckled.
MISS Leila he says, and he blushed
ike lobster put in the pot, 4 hope
you'll forgive me but I couldn't help
il. | own a livery stable in Lively.