The producers news., 1927-03-04
IN WHICH MISS HALF !
DINNER
DEAR MON:

DINNER
DEAR MON:
| have just got back from Mrs.
Edgerton's party and ! have sure
got some news now.
How / did wished l could of had
YOU here To advise with. The best
guess / could make was that Mrs.
Edgerton was figuring to show her
husband the difference between a real
lady and a manicure girl but Mrs.
Budd she says, Maybe she really
wants TO know you because why,
she says, IF a woman's husband IS
got TO talk about politics with mani
cure guis any WiIe would rather 1t
was ,ynere she could be around" But
/ think Mrs. Budd must OIL been I'M
pressed by the squirrel-skin coat for
of course any landlady will trust you
more if you have got a thing like
that on.
Well anyhow ! says that | am go
ing there and do the best ! know
how and talk with Mr.. EdgertOn just
the same as all the other times. Be
cause after all the main thing is that
he has got this great work to do
to tell the Spokesman what to say
TO the whole American people. He
has asst me to advise him and | am
not going to let no jealous wife
scare me off.
/ have not got time to get home
to fix myself up after work so | give
myself a lick and a promise in the
beauty parlors and pile myself into
a street car and get pretty much
mussed up in the crowd and ! ride
until | get to Alexander Hamilton
Place But then it is too early and
| have read in the etiquette book
that it is not good form to arrive for
dinners ahead of time so | take a lit
tie walk though | don't mind admit
ting to my dear old Nom that my
knees is kind of weak for walking.
But / am not scared in the head and
| think up some good conversation
and remember some ideas in Pop S
letters and so / go back to the house.
It is one of these gosh-almighty
swell aparement-hOuseS made out of
pink and green marble and red plush
curtains and palm trees and cOlored
boys with brass button. But | have
got my new clothes and | am not go
ing to worry even if Mrs. Edgerton
does know that her husband bought
them for me. | am announced by the
telephone and ride up in the ele-
vator and there comes a maid with
a white apron and a cap and | am
took into a dressing room and then
a room with a piano and some books
and lights that is dim and mysteri-
Gus.
Well have had the hope that
might see Mr.. Edgerton first so as
TO get a line on what is coming but
she don't mean to give me no such
advantage she comes sweeping in
Good evening Miss Riggs" she says
and remember that the etiquette
books says that some ladies shake
hands and some do not and she il
one of them that does not. She i!
very polite but a little too gushy anC
says to myself right off Mamie
Riggs she is worse scared than yoL
are.
Well she starts to tell about tn,
late winter we are having and o
course | know as much about tn,
weather as anybody and after WI
have finished with winter in Wash
ington ID. C.. | tell her about winte
in Camden New Jersey.
Then Mr.. Edgerton comes in ant
he is the same old friend and we dt
shake hands and like we meant i
and then ! see that he is going Il
play the game like there wasn't moth
ing wrong. So | says, "Well Nh
Edgerton and how goes the econom
program with the Spokesman"
He says, "Well it is not going s
good as it might because you llno,
how it is with economy it is a fin
word for the campaign but when yo
come TO put it into practice you fin
thot it means letting somebody OF
of a job and it always turns out {
be the third cousin Of some congress
man or maybe of a district leader
"Yes," | says, "some of them fel
ers that is setting with their fe,
up on their desks smoking long cil
ars"
Exactly" he says, "and there
nothing that worries the Spokesma
so much as thinking about them fe
lers You see how it is when
is when it comes to election tin
they are all busy rustling out Il