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Show NOT WHAT THEY LOOKED FOR Audience, Like Readers of Novels, Wanted What They Had Been Used to Getting. Dr. Wllllnm Lyon Phelps of Ynlo said at a dlnnor In Philadelphia : "Tho average popular novelist nnd his audience nro very, very well, It reminds mo of a story. "An oldtimo music hall artist turned up, nftor somo years of nbsenco, In a certain provincial town whero ho had onco been a great favorite. Ho went on In his usual mako-up bulbous bulb-ous red noso and so forth expecting u grand reception, but all his offorts were received In gloomy silence. "What's tho matter with 'em?' ho said afterward to tho stago manager, nnd ho dashed a tear from his oye, 'Have they forgotten old Dill?' " 'No, Dill, Uioy nln't forgotten you,' said tho manager In a kindly voice. No, It ain't that, but you'vo changed your Jokes about. You'ro tellln' tho one about tho stnr boarder ahead of tho one about tho llmburger, and It upsets 'em.'" |