Show TICKLE TRUST NOT AFRAID SAYS JOLLY LEW DOCKSTADER this Government injunction and receiver gag gag I asked Lew Dockstader Dockstader Dockstader Dock- Dock stader yesterday at the Hudson theater shirtless He was sending sixty-five sixty son songsters through the latest crop of coon melodies and hob starters in preparation preparation prep prep- for the seasons season's opening at NewHaven NewHaven New NewHaven Haven a a. few nights hence I started to read about the terrible terrible terrible ter ter- deal for the tobacco trust he went on but I got crying so bard hard I couldn't couldn finish the story What's hat s this awful chill Uncle Sam is handing banding out Instead of putting trust offenders in in jail the Government serves them with an an injunction and then appoints a are are- re receiver receiver re- re eiver to conduct t ti Q business business' Is that the cheese Well Wel it strikes me mo its it's pretty se SG se- se vere v Why ny that gag could be applied to any business even mine couldn't it iU How do you make that out asked one of his end men men Charge Fido said Lew and the end man collapsed Suppose they should decide that I was trying to corner corner corner cor cor- ner the laugh market They could serve an injunction on me restraining me from m making king people lau laugh h. h But they would never make out a n case of lau laugh h a against you said a along long suffering long suffering auditor who turned up then Mr Dockstader ignored him The fact of the matter is J he said Ive got to make them laugh Its It's the only trade I ever learned If they dont don't lau laugh h I dont don't eat Is it true that I am the president of the tickle trust he repeat repeated d blushing a i. i deep pea green I HI decline to answer on the ground that it might tend to incriminate and degrade mo me still m more re Yet I will admit that I hold holda a larga largo block of stock in the tickle trust trust but we wo are not afraid No Im I'm not II in favor of lof the injunction thin thing t most emphatically n no Why just think what would happen in my case They could even restrain the audience from laughing and heaven knows its it's hard enough to got get ot them even smiling nowadays nowadays nowa nowa- days with the old circus gags out of of fashion Is there thre much competition in the making laugh business asked a farmer farm farm- er from Yaphank I should say so answered Lew eyeing the tho spinach on on th the tha i questioners questioner's chin Its HIts getting etting worse all aU the time Rockefeller t Harriman Roosevelt and Carn Carnegie gie are all doin doing monologues that I are arc real funny And look at the advantage tage tago they've got John D. D can make makeI the people lau laugh h by simply taking his hat off All Harriman has to do is to I mention Chica Chicago o Alton and everybody every every- everybody body laughs laug-hs with the possible exception exception exception tion of the tho stockholder Teddy draws aside the curtain and lets us look at Bill Taft and then we weve we've IVO got ot to roar But Carnegie has them all lying in state If he t tells you a II story and vou you laugh hell he'll hand you a library What chance have I got with that bunch of head headliners liners liners' Is it so that old jokes are aro abused asked a II man who had como come to collect a board bill Far from it said Lew regarding the person suspiciously Ive had the same jokes lokes since Ivo Ive been in the busi busi- ness They all swear by me and would refuse to work for any anyone ono one else I Idress Idress Idress dress them up once a vear year and treat them with the respect duo due old age I got ot them from old Dan Bice Rice whom I 1 put in tin the circus business How do you intend to circumvent 13 the tho possibility of an an injunction an injunction being served on you you asked a a. Boston reporter re re- porter I Ive ve got ot a scheme said the min min- Ill HI 11 engage a lawyer in every town I show in jn and have him stand at atthe atthe t the gate with a a. vacating order in case of emergency In addition to acting in ina in ina I a a. legal capacity they can double double in jn brass help stretch out the parade and chair in New NewYork New NewYork warm a the first part New York World |