Show A HISTRIONIC PLAINTIve PLAINT-Ive lost my diamonds oer and oer Exclaimed the leading lady And yet they mention as before My art as something shady Quite frequently has my divorce Been noted in the papers Yet critics speak in language coarse Of my insipid capers A cigarette Ive badly smoked And frisked a shapely stocking In desecration I have joked In ways that some called shocking No promise of reward I see For all this toll exacting One last resort remains to me I think Ill study acting Detroit Free Press |