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Show Actors: Are Originators Of , Many tL and, Bo 6ms EDDIE V ' x-Q? AXLOT jjii mi j .ncv. er Knew hpw won-der-ful voa wi wWn I vxWtA vou won-dcrful onc. Travel Develops Their Business Judgment, Says Vaudeville Team New York City. The chief Teal estate booms in the United States have all been started by I are not liighbrow. We like to get down to the hearts of folks and there is no better wcy to do it than with popular music. "There is a queer misconception misconcep-tion about actors in general. In the main, they are as simple as we are and usually thrifty, com-mon-sensical sort of chaps. Most ' of them own their own homes and have money in the bank, not to mention stocks and bonds in their safety deposit vaults. Lots of them have other strings to their bows through interest in some business other than acting." "It's true, too," added Mr. Healey, "that actors have started most of the land booms. Traveling Trav-eling about as they do, they are able to see what section of the country is best adapted for development. de-velopment. They started tho ball rolling both In Southern California and in Florida." ! i Mr. Cross and Mr. Healey are' known as the Damon and Pythias of the stage because of their long friendship and professional association actors, inis )S xne assertion or. Allan Cross, and he is home out in it by Eddie Healey, his vaudeville vaude-ville partner. Mr, Cross and Mr. Healey have crossed the United States north and south, east and west, hundreds hun-dreds of times. They have watched small towns change into in-to cities with skyscrapers and buzzing factories. They are on the stage practically every day of their lives. Already this year, they have sung their favorite encore, en-core, 'I Never Knew How Wonderful Won-derful You Were Till I Lost You, Wonderful One," more than a : hundred times. ' 1 "Incidentally," says Mr. Cross, we expect to sing it a thousand limAA hafnra wa stoa. . Eddia and |