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i? I?! f“i \ : ;■ I 18 TO THE STAGE FOLKS By Joe Lawlor. "GOD BLESS THEM ALL.” It was 7:50 P. M. on a crisp Janu ary night. In front of one of the Great White Lane’s Show Houses, Flam ing Posters on Huge Billboards her alded the Fact that Ziegfleld’s Follies was Mobilized for a short stay in Lit tle Old New York. From all parts of the Laoe came the crowd and Oh Agatha! what an Outpouring crowd that was sure good natured and orderly. There was the Country Cousin, Ordinary City Resi dent, the Girl Hilda, the Coat Make" (who is at last getting her Eight Hour Day and a Victrola Jazz after Lunch), the Commuters from Suburbia and^the Wall Street Lamb, a mob on whose Flanks hung the Itinerant Vendor, and The Guys Who Never Had a Chance. On entering the Auditorium, eacc and every one scans the Line-Up to get ^set for the Surprises that the Shock Troops are bound to deliver We don’t wait long, because from out of the Low Studded Orchestra Door, come crouching along to the places the Musicians looking all the world like The Cafskiil Pewies who knocked Rip Van Winkle into a Rest Camp for Twpntv Tears. After tiiriTio- nn t^'c Stradavairan’s and Revilie Horns, out comes the Snapnv Leader as trim as Lord Chesterfield. One wave of the Baton, and then comes forth with a crash. King Melody arrayed with Diminished Fifths. Augmented Sixth’s and Collateral Sevenths. The Great Crowd catches the Fever, and is plac- in Good Humor for the Reveue. From out of somewhere now come Dainty Bits of Femininity Gorgeously Arrayed and with a Personality that Belongs onlv to A Show Girl. Then come the different leads: .lose Collin’s, Fanny Brice Tinnev Harry Pilcer, etc., all showing the talents that God has THE CADUCEUS blessed them with and at the same time helping a critical public digest their Victuals and U-Boat, the Mental Cobwebs that arise from a Day in the Factory or Ofidce. Now to get to the Plot of this Story. Seated in front of the writer were a couple of Double Entry Clerks, stag gering under the Weekly Stipend of Fifteen Iron Men and with the Ice Water Tax slapped on, sent them out to Struggle with the World carrying, $14.95. From the accent of their con versation we must label them Erskine and Ferdie. In other words tap any part of them and. Ice Cold Sarspariilia will Gush forth in Abundance. Hark Ye, now to the Line. Sayeth Erskine, “My Deah Boy so and so is a Disgrace to Socie ty. He Beats His Wife, Throws Cus pidors at her Guests and Good Lord it was only last Week that he was seen at Atlantic City with May—(Whis pered). Replieth Ferdie, with a Hol land Gin Grin. “Donah tell me about that Fellah, or Miss May , either. I happen to know the Guy who placed her where she is Today and he told me that . Well, why go any further kind Reader. This is just a Mild Form of the Car bolic Stuff that these Poison Pups and' Thousands more of their Cllaue Spread Broadcast. You have stood probably at the Bar of a Red Ink Mill and heard Men and Women of the Stage Libeled by Stories that are to say the Least inconceivable. In the Second Act of the Man Who OWns Broadway with Ray mond Hitchcock in the Lead, a Dia logue ends with the statement “Ac tors are a Bad Lot.” To which Hitch cock replies, “Yes there are a Bad Lot. They leave home in the Fall, to live among Strange P;ople, Strange Hotels and they don’t see their place of Abode the whole year ’round. And all for what, just to make a tired pub lic happy when tl .eir Day of Toil is over. Ah, me. Actors are indeed a Bad Lot,” FLOOHEY A flea and a fly by the flue were en gaged. But the two by a fly with the flu were enraged. Said the fly: “I have the flu.” “Then fly,” said the flea. Said the fly with the flu, “I will give it to you.” “Oh, don’t!” said the flea, and the ■ fly sneezed with glee, ' “Let us flee—let us fly—we will both get the flu.” Said the fly with the flu— “Kerch 00!—Ah—kerchoo!” Said the flea to the fly,—“Let us flee from the flu.” Said the fly to the flea, “From the flu we will fly.” So they flew from the fly with the flu by the flue. But the flu caught the flea And the fly caught the flu— Now would you want all this .to hap pen to you? COMMISSIONED. Niels Poulsen, who entered the fourth oflicer’s training camp at Camp Gordon -ms been commissioned a sec ond lieutenant and is connected with the replacement regiment at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. Take the Men of the Stage like Wil lie Collier, George Cohan, E. H. Soth- ern, Otis Skinner, George Beban. 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