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Show Tongue Twisters. "Tongue twisters are the actor's bane," an actor said. "Lose your head on the stage, and you are bound to say 'Now Rababbas was a bobber,' for 'Barabbas was a robber.' "On a first night I heard a tragedian refer to the Deity as 'a shoving 'leopard,' 'leop-ard,' when he meant 'a loving shepherd.' shep-herd.' "You make me a boff and a sky-word!' sky-word!' I once shouted in a tank drama. "My uncle, a divine, concluded an address on the suffrage before a women's wom-en's club with the terrible words: 'But I bore you; I will cease; I do not wish to address a lot of beery wenches.' My poor uncle meant 'weary benches.' "I was a duke in a recent problem play, and when my servant asked me one night if I had any luggage, I replied: re-plied: 'Only two rags and a bug.' " |