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Show I BEVERLY HILLS. Well all I know is just what I read in the papers. pa-pers. Now just what has been agi- tatmg the natives na-tives here lately late-ly in the way of printed matter? Mr. H o o v e r's speech couple of weeks ago is still fresh in the minds and editorials edi-torials of our press, but no man should ever make a speech after someone at the same din- and if you talk about International or political affairs, a fashionable New York audience is the dumbest one you can assemble anywhere in this Country. Small town people will make a sucker out of em for reading and keeping up with the news. I will never forget one time I went over to Sherrys, a fashionable fashiona-ble restaurant, after the Follies show one night to play a charity affair for one of the Vanderbilt ladies, la-dies, and I thought I had some good material at the time. The League of Nations was in the heighth of its argument, Ireland and England' was fussing, dissarma-ment dissarma-ment was a headline topic. William Randolph Hearst was sitting with a party of friends at one of the tables. ta-bles. Well he had heard these same little jokes of mine over at the Follies show, and I breezed out there .ather cocky thinking I had some sure fire material. Well you never saw jokes hit a ball room floor and slide off like those did. Talking about Mr Lincoln and his speech that day at Gettysburg, he was not what is alwavs humormislv referred to as the "Principal Speaker." And this little speech of Lincolns did-ent did-ent go over so big, hut this other old man that got up there and raved for an hour, they! thought he was great. Now nobody no-body knr "3 his name or a word ner has read or recited, (this woman wo-man did a kind of a cross between the two) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Ad-dress. You see it was Lincolns birthday and the Republicans In New York were celebrating. If It hadent been for Lincoln the Republicans in N. Y. would sure be short of a cause for celebrating. Well preceeding Mr. Hoover's speech some woman read Lincolns speech. Its only about three hundred hun-dred words long, and the plainest words. Theres not a child or even -a comedian that cant understand It. Well Mr. Hoover got flowery, all long words. Honest Lincoln just as well not made his speech as far as it has had any effect on other speakers. He left it as an example, exam-ple, 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 refer-ences to him by the preceeding speakers, and a great hand when he arose to speak, but when he got into his speech, which was on affairs af-fairs as they pertain to us, why not a ripple did he get. I just dont believe one tenth of those people knew what he wa3 talking about. You take an audience audi-ence like he would draw, all of rich New York Republicans, and I bet you outside of a few of the men present they dident get him at all. When he got Into gold standard and finances, why those women dident care a thing about it as long as they already had on the sable coat, and dident have to worry about where it was to come from. The President said things in his speech that I know they would have applauded ap-plauded if they had known what they were. I have played to audiances all over this country, cities, towns, and right on the bald prairie, and lota of swell charity affairs In New York I he said. He just talked himself right into oblivion. . They say Lincoln wrote his going up on the train in a day coach, on the hack of an en-I en-I velope. Every speaker that goes to commemorate something or other 1 should be locked up in a day coach an i he comes out with over three hundred words then he should be put In a cattle car and make it to the stock. Its funny how they use these famous fa-mous men of ours birthdays to not pay tribute to his memory but put over some party hooey. That the man In the grave if he could hear it, would get up and denounce the whole affair. It's "Lincoln and the great Republican party, and Jefferson Jeffer-son and the great Democratic party". par-ty". Neither man would know his party if he come back today, and neither one would admit it If he did know em, so Mr Lincoln you and Mr Jefferson have got a lot to answer for. 193:, McXm.fk! Jw'wr, Inc. |