| Show I PERCY THE PRESS AGENT The ei Wed BY HANK T SEE a doctor going Into bItO the th Prima 1 JL 1 ma Donnas dressing room to tonight tonight tonight I night said the Show Girl dirt to Percy as Joe the waiter walter hustled away awny with their order 1 I I wonder what was the matter with her herI I Doctor octor echoed Percy news to me How do you know It was a doctor Well he ho was a tall taIl lean mussed up sort wrt of or a guy answered the Show ShowGirl ShowGirl ShowGirl Girl and I knew he ho h was a doctor cause be was lugging lu g a satcheL Oh that guy exclaimed Percy he a doctor hes her hr h amateur press agent Oh my laughed the Show Girl some one after your sob job ob Percy Not on your life lite replied her com companion companion companion panion he be a press agent or a Coney Island frankfurter Hes Hos a ashine ashine ashine shine The prima donnas killing him and he be dont know It Hes the onig original origInal inal fall guy for keeps What does he carry cany the satchel for asked the Show Girl He carries clippings In It an answered answered answered Percy Every time he gets her name In print he buys a dozen copies of the tho paper and clips cUps out the notice Then he packs it In his grip and beats It up to the theatre to I spread the result of his I toll before The Tho Generous Prima Donna And what does she do asked the Show GirL Girt Oh Ob real kind to him said Percy nd she has a regu regular regular lar schedule laid out If It he gets a small paragraph In the paper about her she allows him to kiss her on the cheek If It Its two paragraphs he can kiss her on both cheeks If It he gets as much as a half a column in the paper about her he gets a real kiss and a winning smile And suppose he gets her picture printed what then queried the Show ShowGIrL GirL Then he gets a hug and a kiss said sad Percy You can always tell when that happens because when he comes out other dressing room his coat Is all over powder Chee exclaimed the Show Girl theres one born every minute aint there Say his excuse for liv living livIng living ing Oh Ob hes one of ot those highbrow gents said Percy a Journalist he calls himself 1 I Oh a reporter suggested the I Show Girl No Its not the same replied Per Percy Percy Percy cy A Journalist Is a newspaper man who borrows money from reporters most of at the time Does Doea the prima donna really him r asked the Show Girl I dont know said Percy but her maid does Ever since hes been i around her maid has been loafing Why this highbrowed admirer but buttons buttons buttons tons up the prima donnas dress and ties her shoes and nd carries her dress suit case not to mention taking her herout herout herout out to supper when shell let him How Ho Ito Gets the Money Chee He must have money ex ax exclaimed X claimed the Show GirL Sometimes he has bas and sometimes he replied Percy I under understand understand understand stand that down in the office he has them all conned Into thinking hes the sole support of an aged aunt Every time he wants an advance he rings in inthe Inthe inthe the aunt She generally gets indisposed on the day dy d y High Brow has a date to take the Prima Donna out to supper Oh hes a wise one this High Brow Oh dear moaned the show girl why I gifted with a beautiful voice to catch easy marks like Uke that In is Instead stead of being Just good looking Cut C C It ft out o t S P tty r be satis satisfied satiSfied fied fled with what youve got This kind of a guy would get on your nerves Why he does nothing but ask asic her to marry him Why dont she take him up cried the Show GirL Girt Look at the chance got to get a dresser and add a press agent for nothing the wrong kind of dope kid said Percy wise He might get on to himself If it they got married and probably quit being an easy mark No got him right I Give him four kisses kiSS es a week we l and hell eat out of her hand forever she ever made him any promise about marrying asked the 1 Show GirL 1 I understand shell make the Cava lien lIer speech as he gets her ber face ce I Into a magazine said Percy and the poor guy Is laying laving awake nights trying to think up some new line of dope so he can put it across on some editor Its a terrible thing is love loe High fligh Brow a Hero Hes Hos a sort of a hero he said the Show Girl pathetically TYes Yes YeB but he know It re replied r replied plied Percy therefore that makes him Just a plain easy mark As MJ for fo that my rn own every press agent Is a hero rm Pro a hero Were ero all heroes Huh said the Show Girl sarcas sarcastically where do you class cl as a u hero heroId heroId heroId Id like to know Why a chance with these butter cakes lets me In iii said Percy It takes a brave braveman man to tackle tackIe them Just the same High BroW is a pretty prett good guy insisted the Show ShowGirL ShowGIrL GirL Girt Good exclaimed Percy Hes the best thing that ever happened happ that is for the prima donna But chee What a risk he runs What asked the Show Girl What if It somebody should steal his grip with the clippings In it an answered answered answered her companion Poor High HighBrow HighBrow HighBrow Brow No more kisses Hed die Oh Ob youre sore said the Show ShowGirL ShowGirL GirL No but an amateur press agent always gets my goat replied Percy Some day da Im r going to soak this guy gu with a cream puff putt and send him home disguised as a paste pot But Bat Ill stop knocking him lIes Bes got his own trou troubles troubles bles the prima donna knows that |
