. "The greatest of these--";. Its my first experience in an All-Star the funniest lot! They say Good morn-ing an everything! Its quite a pleasant thingto find an all-star, who plays only all-stars(Disraeli, Paganini, Hamilton, etc.) ask you,Why does a chicken cross the road? Of course,it wasnt really about a chicken. It concernedcheese, was just as funny and not so old. The 17 18 THE GREATEST OF THESE only unreasonable request was George Cohans ask-ing for a red-white-and-blue spotlight. But I havean idea he was spoofing Mr. Tyler. Mr. Tyler, ourManager, is the man who has to look
. "The greatest of these--";. Its my first experience in an All-Star the funniest lot! They say Good morn-ing an everything! Its quite a pleasant thingto find an all-star, who plays only all-stars(Disraeli, Paganini, Hamilton, etc.) ask you,Why does a chicken cross the road? Of course,it wasnt really about a chicken. It concernedcheese, was just as funny and not so old. The 17 18 THE GREATEST OF THESE only unreasonable request was George Cohans ask-ing for a red-white-and-blue spotlight. But I havean idea he was spoofing Mr. Tyler. Mr. Tyler, ourManager, is the man who has to look pleasant, andwith exactly the same degree of pleasantness foreach star. There is a shade of difference for thestaresses, but thats out of deference to our springhats. We arrive in Washington presently and Illwager the Fifteen stars wont have the people atthe station that Mary Pickford or Charlie Chaplinhad! Yet one of us might have worn yellow there really exists in the company an awfullyfunny pair of shoes. Basta!. GEORGE Washington, May 14, 1918. 12:30 opened to-night to $17,146—the capacityhouse brought $6,824, the auction had brought pre-miums amounting to $9,322, and Nora Bayespaid $1,000 for the autographed sat in the house, and a hard-workingactress paid a thousand dollars for the Presidentssignature—she could have had all the others for theasking! I think that explains our place in thescheme of things. We were meant to illustratethat part of the Bible which says It is more blessedto give than to receive. We of the stage givealways—of our money, our talents, our goodness, America is starting to employ thestage, in time of trouble, as she does the mechanics,the writer, the financiers. In England the theatrehas a dignity it lacks here, because always in Eng-land the actors are made to feel that they are anecessary part of their country. When money isneeded they band together unselfishly and get
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