Show h t Star Farce by CHAPTER ONE THINK AND THROW V DICE A little while back in a vacant lot not so far away a group of out of work actors met for a little game of craps As the game of big stakes proceeded some were betting as much as a nickel the talk turned to the actors actor's union and how it had been dominated by a bunch of corrupt soda pop drinking ninnies All agreed that while the union had started out as a unifying force it had degenerated to the status of credit cards and Quo and was not above ripping up ing them with used chewing gum After a long discussion and the tidy sum of seventy-five seventy cents had changed hands someone with more brains than money suggested that they retire to the nearest bar Since some of them felt that the stakes were getting too high and the rest felt that they themselves wanted to get high the vote was unanimous Aft After r a long journey of two and a half blocks they struggled struggled struggled into the Galaxy Saloon where an Ragtime band held the crowd in awe with their rending heart-rending rendition of Home On The Range Some wino got pushy with Himie the contortionist so Fredrick the pulled out his new plastic union membership card and cut off his head The poor wino was at this because he felt that thata a glass of beer without a head was like a bottle of arthritis pills with a child proof safety cap He created such a disturbance disturbance disturbance bance that the bartender politely threw him out a second floor window This was accomplished with much difficulty since he first had to fight off one hundred other patrons who wanted to get in on the fun The group then settled down in a dark corner and began making their plans to overthrow the Universal Actors Actor's Guild To be continued I hope You are probably already seeing the connection with that famous classic Gone With The Wind Vind but such is the theart theart theart art of literary piracy For more thrills and tune to the next issue of Points West |