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N p r Colon Voton I stain DID yon want to 10 liE see me JJ J She fhe opened th the stage door 1 and stood there her abbreviated skirts revealing inventing a 0 well matured form torm You ure ure Miss Miss Gray questioned the rather dignified td middle-aged middle business bust busi ness roan man Yes I X am Margery Gray Oray Androu And you yon glancing at the itte card she held Youre John Stinson Wont you you O come up to my dressing room Am I permitted Oh yes yes- You 1011 aren't arent t dan not U It I 1 vouch ouch for tor you Its It's right th this way uy lie He followed his Ills guide guld through th strange maze Into a narrow unCut room And t I tw vf I suppose suppose It was waR huM hual ness tress that made malte you jou brave e tt tIt tie a bt stage of a tt burl buriet burlesque que llIe theater He was oddly III at ut ease I 1 haJ no Idea Illen that Miss Ora Gray was tile Mar Mar- Jer fiery Gray 1 I grew up 1111 with lie III sail uM l lat at ot last It makes my position dim dIRl cult You see see Its Its It's about bo my boy Your boy she echoed at lit a lo Yes ys yes yes yes-my m 18 my boy hoy lies lie's been following fol tul lowing you yon around the pu past t month Hut really John John John-I I dont don't know your boy Well I 1 dare duro say you know his touring tar car better than you do his name They cull call him Re Re eta fl AH u w 1 i ny course I And wl what at did jou yuu want to say to me about Just this Margie Margie Im Im I'm not one of 01 those narrow minded old chaps who think nil all stage tage people are crooked bud bad Immoral I know Netter better than thun that that please please understand mei rne rne me- I 1 do John Juhn But nut what about the boy 7 A new Dew voice broke In before she could reply Margie theres there's there's theres a guy I out here waiting walting to see you Tell him to tn wait walt a minute Bobby Cobby I 1 guess that's no now John The man was WI obviously oll upset Good heavens I 1 He lie Mustn't see me here I Y Ini afraid you'll have ha to do the undignified undignified un un- dignified ducking act then Here Herl hide hille behind this his cretonne cu curtain aln Possibly I ran can get EI rid of t him without his knowing youre you're here I say lIay Margie nn Margie-nn ln Ie am I on the blacklist black block list today I e been heen Wn out here for tor a II century a-century or so no ago ngo You cant can't be lie dressing because us you Jou hl haven't ent n any n change now A 1 hurried gianco In the Iho tricked cracked mirror mir mir- rr II a deft of n II rabbits rabbit's foot ot und and Margie spoke Come on In 10 Hustle Im I'm to see ee you ou myself Hut But I e got ot only a minute for you IOu you Well el I like that I think you jou ou owe me H x few minutes after this watt wait Lets ts not talk what we we- owe one each other Ufa's Lifes too short for that Toll Tell me hie how you jou ou happen to 10 tobe tobe be In this town anyway anY I Ih live here but that doesn't matter Ill I'll o nl always be where you OU are Great Grat great greut I Ii i v v. gilt me V You IU u now mow now I Im I'm In I love line o oI I with you and want to marry you All right take toke you seriously this time and Ill I'll answer you seriously serious serious- ly You couldn't make me happy not so so Id I'd give you the finest finest fin fin- finest est home and anything you'd want You couldn't boy you boy you ha ent t got It And you'd never understand Youve You've never stood In the wings wing's back backstage backstage stage and Bod heard the show go ItO wrong heard them rustle their programs out front scuffle their feet and cough cough cough- seen your friends come 01 off stage stag with the sweat pouring ort off their faces with the effort to please- please had bad someone come up pp to you and say io go go to It It girlie make em like you you yon And you shake down your clothes take one last scrape at the pumice and you gO go out there and you fight tight and fight And then you jou OU get em and em and they laugh and applaud and they like you yon rind and want more of you jou ou That's living U boy hoy And you couldn't give ghe It to me I ne Reggie gh stared at nt h her r hopelessly Do you JU know how old I 1 am asked Margery su suddenly denly Sure Sure about my age Eighteen or twenty Im nearly forty Youre You're a nice boy Reggie Now run back buck home and tor forget et poor lit little lie me Or Or-no Or no dont don't forget me Remember me and tell your jour our children how near you jou OU came to marrying an actress and what a good sport she was Goody lie He tried to 10 Sll say suj It but couldn't quite tonnage manage It When she II Ie had hull closed the door on Reggie's retreating figure the theelder theelder theelder elder Stinson emerged from behind the curtain You know know that's that's a II nl nice e thins thine you did f Mr r mv my eon con h h h. sold mid a 1 bit unsteadily nut Cut tell me did the did you mean all that about the theater She 11 nodded all 11 Its what whal keeps keeps' us everlastingly at It John And And aDd and that's the reason you ou wouldn't marry my son 1 I beg your pardon If Im I'm Intruding Marge a dE deep ep voice broke In suddenly sud sud- denly and Into the narrow confines of ot the dressing room stepped a well well- groomed If It oVE over panted r man In full evening dress Olt Oh that's all right Joe You arent aren't Intruding No John John that that wasn't the only reason why I refused to marry your son The real reason Is 11 my husband here |