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Show EZBA'S WIT AND WISDOM. Ezra Kendall's own particular brand of humor Is becoming; mellower and quaint as time passes. Aa the central character In "Weather Beaten Benson," his new play, has many passages that charm his auditors. Some of the best of the lines follow: Mrs. Ormsby What's In a name? Bensoni Nothing, unless you .have an address to go with it. Rusty Bartlett What Is this love, Mr. Benson ? Benson Ubve is like liniment. It Isn't good to use too much at once. Just a little at a time and rub It In. ' Bartlett How do you make love? Benson That depends on clrcum-stances. clrcum-stances. If it's raining; you'll probably need an umbrella. Bartlett I've got an umbrella. Benson Well, this is a good recipe for making love: Where you get as close as you can without sitting on each other, add the squeeze of the hands not too much. Just enough for delicate flavor. Then add the whites of two eyes; well rolled, let the left arm go to waist mix in a few sighs and don't stir. Benson, proposing to make Progress City, Okla,, like Florida, for his benefactress, bene-factress, Mrs. Ormsby, says: And I'm going to have Florida water In the fountain, and live alligators, painted BrrHhe sidewalk Just painted alligators they'll live longer than live ones here, and I've sent for 1000 chameleons chame-leons to change their colors for her along the garden patha And I'm going to tie green bananas on the peach trees and let her pick them when they're ripe. For we've got money now, you know. Why, we're filling orders for potato cake and bean bread to be eaten by people peo-ple who ain't born yet Then, after the roses are gone she can fly back to Florida Flori-da for the winter and I can wait for her here until our roses come again. In the winter I can shovel snow off the alligator |