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Show Had Her Safe. At tlie nmntenr operatic performance perform-ance of "The Mistletoe Hough" in which, as you remember, the heroine hides in n cellar chest and Is smothered smoth-ered to death Hie lady who played this part was, vocally, a terrible fiasco. fias-co. Nevertheless, they strusyled alonfr until the scene where she climbed into the box a real "properly" "prop-erly" kindly loaned for the occasion by John Smith, president of the local safe-deposit company. The lid snapped down with a click that was only too realistic. A frightened stage manager rushed out to where the owner of the box sat and whispered. "Gimme the key ! The lid of yonr blooming box has sprung locked." "Is that woman going to sing any more ?" "Sure, she conies in as a ghost In the next act and sings two songs." "That settles It," muttered old Jones Smith. "She can just stay there." Nothing boosts the value of blessings bless-ings like their removal. |