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Show Knew Just Where He Was. Whimsical Walker, the famous clown, has followed the prevailing fashion and written his recollections, which naturally abound with theatrical shop talk. Among his reminiscences of Prury lane the street, not the theater is the following: "I was on speaking terms with an undertaker there and he once Invited me Into his shop and brought out a bottle. I sat myself down on something covered with black cloth and we hobnobbed together In friendly fashion. The undertaker un-dertaker was an enthusiastic theatergoer, theater-goer, lie knew a host of 'stars' by sight and had acquaintance with a few of the lesser lights. We talked theatrical theat-rical 'shop,' and I happened to ask the undertaker if he knew what had become be-come of a certain actor whom I mentioned men-tioned by name. 'Yes, said the man, composedly, 'you're a-elttlug on him now I'" |