Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1932-01-21
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THE BoOTLEGGER's CORNER
intoxicating Facts About
This and That.
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NJ. r. 8.

The morning after the morning
afterl And you, Mr., Weather Man,
have the impudencc 10 send us sun
today. Today When we ordered II
for Saturday Well, you're Just two
days too latel I don't care II you did
get your orders mixed-yod might
know we wouldn't want snow on the
day we were putting OH our play. And
I consider 1t an insult to come shining
around today trying to smooth mat
tiers over All right, take away your
old sun If you want to--send more
rain-send tornado--send anything
you d. please! There, didn't
mean that--I've been listening to
those lines in the play for so long
they sort Of slipped out
When woke up Saturday morning
and heard crows cawing outside, and
birds twittering, I thought, Spring
has comel What a day for the playw
Then / looked out the window. Glugl
(That was my heart hitting the soles
of my little pink tootsies). Snow
Beautiful snowl Falling SO silently,
so purely and whitley, and all the rest
of the epithets could think to call
it, out Of the Some Place else into
the Here. At that, couldn't help
sort OF grudgingly admiring it. 1t
was pretty, dog-gone it! And while
was looking sad eyedly at it spied
bright red rose bud nodding jaunt-
lily at me over the gate, and trying to
balance two inches of fluffy snow on
its top side.
Puget Sound weather" I sighed.
"Oh WE'LL if rose bud can stand it
maybe an audience can, but then
roses don't have to ride In automobiles
over slippery roads-all roses have to
do is balance two inches of fluffy
snow on their topknots until some
puff of wind blows it off"
But at that, we had good audi
ence, and responsive audience, and
an appreciative audience, and would
have fallen on their necks, one and all
if hadn't been SO busy back stage
And were we proud of our cast?
Never, in all my experience with
amateur plays have I seen such an
all star cast. And only one or two
of them had ever been on the stage
before! Well, you never know the
talent that's hidden in garages and
offices and lumber yards and stores
and poultry farms and such.
And now comes the task of return
ing all the properties until the next
time they're needed. To think thai
DR.. McMurray had to be called out
on a case, SO they couldn't come anc
see how gorgeously their velvet cur.
tains dressed up the stage. In faci
that was quite an imposing home the
Three Wise Fools occupied wasn't iii
A Billingsley, Smock, Weiss, Beall
Coutts, Robinson interior, with silver
service by Shaw!
And If Betsy and I have to tott
Mrs. Shaw's solid silver tray aroune
much more we're both going to neee
new springs. I'm certainly in favol
OF abandoning the silver standard.
/ The thing I enjoyed most about tn,
whole evening, though, was the ban
quet afterwards. And how our actor
wives can cook! When one hasn'
had much time to eat, and very littl
spirit in the eating for three days, ,
feed like that fills long felt void!
But it's all over until-Wait till
answer the phone-What? We're go
ing to give the play again? A lot 0
folks want to see it over? And thos
that missed it on account of tn
weather - Well now, Amt tina
somep'n?
OF course I'll have the stage read
m be waiting at the door with Mr.,
Billingsley's settee under one arm
but I demand an assistant propert
man to carry that tray!
To think we are to have the oppor
tunity of hearing Bacchus' melliflu
i Gus voice again, and Metz and Joe i
\ their inimitable parts--and to waite
\ the buffers buttle and the detective
a-detecting. And to glimpse Shirle
\ in that beautiful alice Blue Gown
and Gordon, and Saunders an
\ Benny the Duck"-.
Well, I'll be SEEM you-or won
/ be SEEM you, because III be too bus
to look, but come anyway!
1t is all right to preserve wild lii
in the forests. but what to do with