| Show I THE TriE WAY W A Y I I. I DIDN'T M MAKE KE r MY fY FAREWELL SPEECH IN LONDON 0 BY ROSE STAHL Say didn't you ever when you ou was a kid back in the mud plo pic and crack the whip da days s get gel dO doped out by the teacher for foi one of them afternoon recites when the and and was scratched while you and a bunch of other Infantile martyrs was herded onto the platform and coaxed into doin a aDaniel aDaniel aDaniel Daniel Webster In front of the whole school And then when you was in the I midst of an hed line Una concerning The Tho Old Lighthouse or some similar threadbare classic didn't you get set Jerry to how the whole skated skate l awa away from your worried brain leaving lea you a stammering and and f stuttering and finally you had to exit Well dope that up double and throw throw- in the clutches then you'll rave ra a a. faint picture pic- pic tyre ture of of- me methe the night night- I I. played pla Patricia O OBrien O'Brien rl the tho last time at the Vaudeville the Vaudeville Comedy theatre In London Jondon when closing my engagement Honest H Hl est it was awful jr If I had done a marathon off any Amer Arner- lean ican stage with the fright padlock on my voice cupboard like that Id been kidded to death for the next seven moons moons- But this was a a. a truly and really emotional stunt and take talc it from me there there- were tears the size of gumdrops rOlling rolling down down me n-ic face fae till my dress looked like I J had boen doing doing- the the- lead lead for for Bill Collier in Caught in the the- Rain ain They fley had been awful nice jilce to me me- over there there and and on the last night there was a n. big crowd of thea theatre tre people andr celebrities ties in front there to give me the merry sendoff I J was tipped off ff ix in advance that thai It was up up-to up to me to throw some Roosevelt talk over oven th the the- gas bottle so 80 I had nad framed up tip one o of those neat little things things' things about about hands across the sea au revoir but not goodbye and and some and some mor more that A Atter Af At- ter the third 3 act t they wanted so many encores that the stage hands developed lumbago from hauling the foe curtain up and down and they tivy had to work in relays I Iwas Iwas was scared scaled stiff but finally tried to re remember remember remember re- re member my spiel and walk walked d out Well they sent up such Buch a storm of bravos and ana made such a fuss that it got all my temperament goin and the first thing I knew I was crying like a baby I tried tO remember my speech but doIn doi doin do- do in i so I Just stood there here and cried until I T had Niobe in the piker crass cass All I could say wa was I 1 love you all aU to death over and over just like ilke that thai And honest honest hon hon- est to goodness they liked it and hollered for me to come out and cry some more for them And I J did But the speech speech- aw forget it cant can't you I did |
