Laughter Limited

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CHAPTER I

IT NEVER could of done it if I had known Strick; was in the audience. You know how it is, per haps. You can make a swell snappy speech at the stag dinner, but only stutter if friend wife is amongs those present. Or if your sweetie is down front, the valedictory which sounded so well in front of you bedroom mirror comes out like the contents of a non refillable bottle, in little spouts and dashes. So it's a good thing I didn't know Strick was ther until afterward, although why I didn't see him when looked out at the audience from behind the curtains of the high-school-auditorium stage is a wonder to me because to begin with he was a complete stranger to our town and was sitting all the time with Bert Green our leading and only photographer, and I was kin< of looking for old Bert Green, he being a particular friend of mine and had taken a lot of photos of me free, on account of my map going so well in his showcase. But some way or another I missed seeing either of those boys. You know the way a big hall seating nearly three hundred people and all lit up with a dozen or more electric lights looks from the stage- sort of blurry and confusing. I could hardly tell on from another, except, of course, pop, but then I had bought his seat myself and I could plainly see him occupying it and a little bit of the seats on either hand, as well. Then I was terribly excited, too. Ridiculous, of course, because here I had been acting in every show the Stonybrook Dramatic Club had given for the past three winters, or since I was just barely fifteen, and ought to have become accustomed to the big audiences that always turned out on these occasions. But although I was San Whoosis the year we gave The Mikado and that's the leading woman's part, and had led the Floradora Sextet in the performance we gave for the benefit of the new church organ, and other parts besides, not to mention re