| Show I AT ATTHE THE BOOKING OFFICE STAGE OFF COMEDIES V Will Brads haw THE STORY OF PERCY THE ANGEL Ollie Oneal character woman woman woman- Listen bunch burich I want to read something something something some some- thing I just glommed out of a n show sheet It will make you ou laugh out loud oud Dad Wadell who knew Booth by sooth by sight Woman sight Woman cant can't you see I am studying a part I will play ply next season season season sea sea- son undoubtedly Algy late of ot the Alls Alls AlIs Undoubted Undoubted- not ly-not y not Wat did y see In the Weekly Breezer Dreezer Ollie Ohio I Ohio Ollie Oneal Listen Here it Is isOne is- is One of the tho most romantic affairs that has bas taken place this season among stars of the dramatic firmament occurred occurred oc oc- occurred laet last week at Los Angeles when Lottie x Leydon leading lady of ot the Sea SeaCliff CUff Cliff stock company and Bert Walker her leading man were united in mar mar- ringe It is said to be oe a romance of long ong standing The couple have an offer from a prominent eastern producer producer producer pro pro- ducer to play an season all-season engagement engagement engage engage- engagement ment on Broadway Will Bately Holy BatelY-Holy Holy acrobats A season season sea sea- son eon on Broadway What's the matter with those Coast people people getting getting looney right Why that boy could could could- Ollie Oneal Oneal Oneal-Hist Hist Will Never mind about the Broadway part of or It but tell me what Percy Dolittle will say when ho bo 10 reads this little item this morning Hell He'll do something desperate I know Algy Wy Algy Wy should e Ollie Ohlie Oneal Oneal Why Why should he Will tell ell this English comedian why Percy will hit the coiling colling when he sees this Will Bately Its lt's Its It's like this Algy AIgy 4 l T She Get a Tip Somewhere That Pc Percy rcy Was Going to Spend That Thirty Thirty- Five for Flowers Poor old Percy was the one who made I Lottie what she is today Ills His drag and his coin Tottie Sanders a soubrette soubrette soubrette-I'm Im I'm glad he got it handed to him take my word Spendin his dads dad's change on onan onan onan an actress fiancee Serves him right If he boosted a poor chorus girl and made a woman o of her hed he'd have lave been appreciated Do you think it if f it was my gentleman friend I 1 would have gone an married another Not me But Dut what's the use Ill I'll never get a chance to play playa a part like that Will vill Bately What Bately-What What I dont don't understand understand understand under under- stand is that reference t to to Bert as a leading man When Morrie Rosenberg Rosenberg Rosenberg Rosen Rosen- berg got back from the Coast last week he told me Bert was playing juveniles ju ju- ju- ju venUes and doing the job badly Dad Wad Wadell l ell I I kno know Mr Walker to tobe tobe tobe be an excellent actor I started him himIn himin In n the business Will Bately Ho He Ho wouldn't be the first peanut peddler you started on the wrong track ad ad If you told Bert Walker he could ct t you ou ought to get 30 days daye in the cooler The truck drivers lost a good man when he took to the boards Tottie Sanders You Sanders You know it He ought to be understudy to a scene shifter He worked with us a week one onetime onetime onetime time and the way he played was a shame Algy E Algy E must be a blighter I dire sy Lily Williams chorus lady That lady That wasn't It at all Bert Is a floe fine actor but he couldn't work in Tottie's com corn pany He lIe was too artistic and refined Imagine a real leading man like Bert out with a trunk four show playing hooky bonky tonics tanks That notice noth e Ollie read I about him Is all to the tho good Dad Wadell I I once taught him the I yard rave scene from Hamlet and the way he did it would ha e got goten gotten ten en him a position In my own company com corn pany pany pany-It if I 1 had one Ollie Ohio All Oneal-All All I can call think about Is poor Percy Imagine the lads lad's feel feel- lugs lags when he realizes that Lottie is gone out of his life lite forever Will vill Bately If Bately-If If she married a real actor Percy wouldn't care Hes He's game Hut Dut when he hears It It- It Ollie Oneal Poor Oneal-Poor Poor Percy Prcy was so ISO wrapped rapped u up in n Lo Lottie le Remember em er when I she ne be was wun us in 10 me J ue J aura lurn urn 01 or me cue Road doing Lucy the miners miner's daughter daugh I ter tar I Tottie Sanders Sanders Did Did she do Lucy Lily William She Villiam She did It to a finish I twice a n day I was with the author one night when she assassinated it lie He was ready to throw a fit Ot because that was his pet character Dad Wadell What Wadell-What What did he know about It It h he was only the author I I- I That Oneal-That That was when Percy first saw ow Lottie We were playing Waynesburg where his father owns three coal mines Two hard and one soft toft Percy was In a box with his family tam fam ily the night we opened After Arter the act the house houle manager came back and said sold there was a millionaires millionaire's son out in front wanted to come back and meet the ideal of ot his dreams For a minute my heart stopped beating I thought the fortune tellers teller's words were coming true true true- Algy Wat Algy Wat did the fortune teller telly tell telly telly y y Ollie Dad Wadell Tell Wadell-Tell Tell us Im I'm a a student of or the psychic Will Vill Bately What Bately-What What about abou Percy Percy that night Ollie Oneal Oneal-A Oneal A fortune teller teller- told me that when fate tate looked dar darl st to tome tome tome me a n light man with witIa a million mil mit- lion Hon would cross ross my path Algy Algy Algy Wonderful Its It's abo about abot t time ed show up Ollie Ohlie Youve You've been ben out of ot booking three weeks weeks weeks' now Ollie Oneal Some Oneal-Some Some day he ho will come I never fear rear D Did Dad d I Wedell-I I hope he hei w i t M. M interested interested inter Inter- ested In Shakespeare Shakespeare-I'd are Id Id I'd like to r revive r re- vive vive- i Ollie Oneal Oneal the manager made that announcement I sought Bought it was my man man Algy Algy But But it Ollie Oneal Nope Oneal-Nope Nope It was Percy begging for Cor an Introduction to Lottie He lie met her an and from that minute on he was a goner So was she Percy's pa po heard about It and tried to break off their engagement Percy was going going goIng go go- ing t to leave lea home and wor worK in the mines to support her Instead ad father rathe gave him a million and him the old homes home's exit From that on Percy planned to mako Lottie a a. She promised him ehod marry him the tho day her name lit up Broad Broadway way Percy went In strong t ther thet er Ho lie hired a staff of authors to o study her herat herat herat at c close ose range and write something to fit He rented his own theater set up upa a scenic shop hired press agents dined critics started a show paper to td boost her and had a full tun house lined up for tor her opening in her ber new play Algy Dukes Algy-Dukes Dukes an lords wat luck Ollie Oneal Then Oneal-Then Then she got a tip somewhere that Percy had just thirty thirty- five left out of his million and he was going to spend that thirty thirty five for flowers flowers flowers flow flow- ers for her premiere premiere- Dad Wadell And Wadell-And- And Ollie Ohlie Oneal Oneal She She left lett for Frisco the morning of the opening day She he wanted Pel Peicy cy to keep the thirty five to take him back to Waynesburg Algy I Alg-I I wonder wat ell ehl sy wen e sees tile the Item Dad Wadell Wadell-lle Wadell lie may lose lobe his faith ralth in womankind Booking Agent entering entering I 1 I want wanta a straight and a juvenile for tor summer summer stock 1914 by W IV G. 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