Show rea V BEVERLY HILLS well all I 1 know Is lust just what I 1 read in the papers now just what has been agitating the natives here lately in the way ot of printed matter mr hoovers speech couple P of 0 weeks ago is still I 1 fresh in the minds and editorials ot of our press but no all man should ever make a s speech P bech alter someone at the same dinner 41 has read 0 or recited this woman did a kind ol 01 a cross oss between the two Lincol ns gettysburg address you see it was Lincol ns birthday and the republicans in new york flere ere celebrating if it badent been tor for lincoln the republicans in N Y would sure be short of a cause tor for celebrating well prece proceeding eding mr hoovers speech some woman read Lin collis speech its only about three hundred words long and the plainest words theres not a child or even a comedian that cant understand it well mr air hoover got flowery all long words honest lincoln just as well not made his speech as I 1 tar ar as it has had any effect on other speakers he left it as an example but no one ever followed it you know this radio gives you a pretty good line on just how things go over now the president got a tremendous reception at all references to him by the prece proceeding eding speakers and a great hand when he arose to speak but when he got into his speech which was on affairs as they pertain to us why thy not a ripple did he get I 1 just dont believe one tenth of those people knew what he a as talking about you take an audience like he would draw all of rich new york republicans and I 1 bet you outside of a few of the men present they aident get him at all when he got into gold standard and finances why those women aident care a thing about it as long as they already had bad on the sable coat and did ent have to worry about where it was to come from the president said things in his speech that I 1 know tiey they would have applauded it they had known what they were I 1 have played to audiences audi ances all over this country cities towns and right on the bald prairie and lots of swell charity affairs in new york and it if you talk about international or political affairs a fashionable new york audience Is the dumbest one you can assemble e anywhere in this country small town peo pea pie will make a sucker out of 0 em for or reading and keeping up with the news I 1 will never forget one time I 1 went over to pherrys Sher rys a fashionable restaurant after the follies show one night to play a charity affair tor for one of the vanderbilt ladies and I 1 thought I 1 had some borne good material at the time the league ot of nations was in the helgath of 0 its argument ireland and england w was as fussing diss armament was a headline topic william randolph hearst was waa sitting with a party of friends at one of the tha tables well bo be had heard these same little jokes of mine over at the follies show and I 1 breezed out there rather cocky thinking I 1 had some sure fire material well you never saw jokes hit a ball room floor and slide off of like those did those old dowagers and those young debutantes had no more read a paper than I 1 had shakespeare mr hearst i was as dying laughing but not at the jokes he was laughing at me out there dying so I 1 can appreciate what mr air hoover was up against they aident know who was on or off the gold they knew they were on velvet was all then two nights later after that fiasco I 1 went to sing sing and did a show tor for them and I 1 never had as N ell read audience in my life they aident muff a gag ever since then I 1 have always felt we had the wrong bunch in there they have papers and magazines in there and read all the time talking about mr aar lincoln and his speech that day at gettysburg ho he was not what is always humorously referred to as the principal speaker and this 0 11 little speech of 0 alln coins go over so big but this 21 other old man that got up there and raved tor for an hour they thought he was great now nobody knows his ir name or a word he said he just talked tal himself right into oblivion they say lincoln wrote his going up on the train in a day coach on the back of 0 an envelope every speaker that goe giec to commemorate me something or other othe should be locked up in a day coach and it if ho he comes out with over three hundred w words then he should be put in a cattle car and make it to the stock its tunny funny how they use these famous men ot of ours birthdays to not dot pay tribute ute to his bis memory but put over some party hooey that the man in the grave if ho he could hear bear it would get up and denounce the whole affair its lincoln and the great republican party and jefferson and the great democratic party neither man would know his party it if lie he come back today and neither one would admit it it he did know em so mr air lincoln you and mr jefferson have got a lot to answer tor for D 1933 Mc Nuns syd Syndics I tl inc ac |