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Show Had Her Safe. At the amateur operatic performance perform-ance of "The Mistletoe Bough" in which, as you remember, the heroine hides in a cellar chest and is smothered smoth-ered to death the lady who played this part was, vocally, a terrible fiasco. fias-co. Nevertheless. they struggled along until the scene where she climbed into the box a real "property" "prop-erty" kindly loaned for the occasion by John Smith, president of the local safe-deposit company. The lid snapped down with a click that was only too realistic. A frightened stage manager rushed out to where the owner of the box sat and whispered. "Gimme the key! The lid of your blooinintr box has sprung locked." "Is that woman going to sing any more?" "Sure, she comes in as a ghost in the next act and sings two songs." "That settles it," muttered old Jones &lJi. "She can Just stay there." Nothing boosts the value of blessings bless-ings like their reraovaL |