Show I AT ATAR ATTHE i AR THE BOOKING y OFFICE STAGE OFF 1 COMEDIES III VI Jy by Will Brads Bradshaw haw LEILA WAS JUST A DAY LATE Leila Westcott leading lady lady lady- What do you know about It girls I just turned down an offer from Sam the tho producer to feature me meIn meIn mein In a big play with the pick of Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way for a supporting company Can you imagine it Alice Le Due of tho the chorus chorus We We certainly cant I thought you'd be glad to do seven shows a day In a gallery tho way youve you've been weeping around here for a contract with dollar marks on it Leila Pooh Westcott-Pooh Westcott Pooh pooh young one Sam knows his line o of work He lost so much this year he realizes It will take a star like Miss 1 Westcott to recoup his shattered for for- tune Algy late of the Alls Alls I I sy Leila Dont Don't you know it was your nimo nime on sheets one that put us where we are today tOday lookin lookin for something for he the thelast last art arf of at next week I wouldn't i ave cared only I was gettin where I could tike me place in society y know It was you who Induced me HJO to togi togo go gi out in A Lonesome r. r Billy Daly a single single So So ft tt was the he leadin lady that turned the tho Lonesome Lonesome Lone some show into a flivver eh Maudie l Lalor soubrette soubrette soubrette-It It was 50 and 50 Billy Her and Algy shared share that honor I seen some of the notices notices no no- tices they got at Ithaca Whew That Morning Star cricket must have hated himself for a week after It was the most sizzling pan I e ever er seen and Im I'm a good judge of Dad Waddell who knew Booth Booth by by sight I sight I suppose because youve you've had EO so many yourself A criticism of my work isn't in existence today Algy Ill I'll Ill I'll bet some of the old newspaper newspaper news news- paper pape r flies files are still left Maudie Lalor What Lalor-What What do you ou know about it Dad Dont Don't rebuke a lady When you played Hamlet for the ushers ushers' fund didn't I say you was the niftiest old Ham for your age that I had ever seen Dont Don't knock it aint professional Algy Let Algy-Let Let him sy what he pleases Is Amlet was detestable Dad dd V adell Wadell Wadell-My My Prince of Denmark Denmark Denmark Den Den- mark WI 5 something like this this this- Billy Daly Cut Daly-Cut Cut it out Alice Give Alice Give us some more of it Dad It puts me in mind of the time I was with Al AI Barnes' Barnes rep doing flag sta sta- ions Leila Lella Westcott Westcott-I I shall never forget Sam for giving me that chance I had a presentiment that something would happen happen- Billy Daly Something Daly-Something Something would One week out and another bunch of trustIng trusting trust trust- Ing trou troupers rs would go over the brink It taken take a personality to head a pro pro- Now I have an Idea for a apIa pIa play written around my specialty It would be a riot Maudlo Maudie Lalor Put Lalor-Put Put clamps on the comedy What chance has your Georgie Cohan imitations got in a areal real show You cant can't get booking now You never had any luck since you and Susie separated Algy Separated Algy-Separated Separated eh Who got the custody of the lie scenery Billy Lelia Leila Westcott When Westcott-When When I think of the awful deal poor Susie got when she married Bl Bil Daly A man who never got a bow or a curtain that he didn't steal Some day Cohan will wm hear bear of his work and have him arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested for malicious mischief Alice Le La Due Due I I knew Susie well She came camo from Yonkers and got her first part In Ui The Tho Fl Fly By Dy Nights I She only played In the chorus two weeks when she see had bad a fat tat part handed nana nana- ed to her The night before we we came In for our run the tho author came out outto outto to see us and the tho minute he saw Susie ho he wanted to write her a star star- rin vehicle right away Algy E Algy E was wise Susie Is a ore one best bet as y sy over ere Leila Westcott Did Westcott-Did Did Artie Attic have a case of heart trouble like that Alice Le Lc Due Due Did Did he I was standing next to her after the second act when he out and asks her to bo be his the next day Ho Ile said if she didn't marry him hed he'd lose Jose his ambi ambition tion go to the wows bow-wows In a week smash his typewriter and quit tho the game Algy I Algy-I f notice e e just registered is bl biggest gest it an an es Vs still single Dad Wadell The Wadell-The The gentleman didn't mean menn a n word of it He lIe was probably probably probably proba proba- bly trying some new lines to hear how they'd sound Maudlo Maudie Lalor Lalor Lalor-Aw dont don't y think a aman aman aman man can have any real sentiment Certainly he meant it Arties Artie's whole family lamny is that way I 1 knew his brother broth broth- er or Wallis before he be married Elsie Elslo Van Allen Leila Westcott Was Westcott-Was Was he sentimental senti sent mental like Artie Dad Wad Wadell Sentiment ell Sentiment is a thing apart from me ma I remember remember- Alice Alico lie Ire 0 Due Due was there therewith therewith therewith with the romantic material Elsie was one of the Flying Van Aliens She Shedid Shedid Shedid did an aerial serpentine for a close Wallie was in tho ho house one night caught her act and because she put him in mind of a angel he made Artie introduce him and married her herthe herthe herthe the next week Leila Westcott Westcott That That's s what I 1 call putting the rome In romance If It the boys are aro that kind of stock I want fo to meet Artie as aa soon as possible Algy That Algy-That That Wallie must ave ad a wonderful imagination Susie made me think of ot a pelican Leila Westcott Westcott-I I want to see Sam again If Artie was the tho author ho had in mind for the play its it's going to be my name on a contract An author like that putt puts soul in his work When When- I know lenow he wrote it it will magnetize me Billy Dilly Daly You Daly-You You need you dont don't attract anything now Alice Allee Lo Le Due Due Youre Youre You're Leila Artie is the man you needed to write you something I can cad see sM you living his characters Dad Wadell The Wadell-The The seven age ages agEl of man I could do I remember remember- Algy I Algy-I I can an old man roan so ell look younger than grane grand grand- children That's art of chap hap iii i in n i ti tiM M rii a vs 1 1 v 11 II I I I iII j l When You Played Hamlet for forthe the Ushers Ushers' Fund Didn't I Say You Was the Niftiest Old Ham for Your Age That I Had Ever Seen Dont Don't Knock I It Aint Professional Maudie Lalor Its Lalor-It's Its It's a n wonder you OU never met Artie His personality and yours are exactly alike Alice Le La Due Due I I bet the he sees her it will be Wallies Wallie's romance repeated eh Maudie Leila Lella Westcott Westcott-Oh Westcott Oh girls Dad Waddell Years Waddell Years have brough him discretion I remember remember- remember remember- Leila Westcott Westcott-I'm Westcott Im I'm going to accept jSam's Sams Sams Sam's offer Im I'm positive Artie is his author author Something tells tes me me- me Algy It Algy-It It means a dinner for us on your appy wedding dy Leila Book Agent entering You enterIng You have often orten heard Artie Artle say that the woman he ho married would have to be noble and strong Well that's what he got He just married Her Her- culena of at the strong lady act the act the Atlases Copyright 1914 b by W. 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