30 next act. Remember FInk & Blempel have put all their money in back of this production. Don't let it be said that a Fink & Blempel cast is terrible. They haven't had a flop in the last two lllonths. "And remember when you go .out in the next act that there are eighteen backers who have faith in you. When you get out there and you face that audience and you hurl lines out to the critics, put everything you've got into it, people. Remember that eighteen angels with their dough in this show are in back of you, hoping that you put it over. Remember that Mr. Fink and Mr. Blempel have selected you because they believed in you. Remem- ber, people, that it's a cold season if / )) -C)) this show flops. Remember, too, that if any of you expect to make the All- Equity Team you've got to show per- fect teamwork, you've got to give each other the proper cues, you've got to pick up your lines, you've got to re- member what the playwright wrote, and you've got to put it over. " N OW listen. I don't mean to ride you, because I'm not really hard- hearted. I was a Fink & Blempel actor myself and I still haven't forgot- ten it and I want you to remember that you're playing for dear old Fink & Blempel. "All right, people, that's all I've got to say. The curtain is about to go up on the next act. Go out there, every- body, and give them all you got. Show them that a Fink & Blempel cast knows its stuff. Go out there and knock those critics for a row of empty seats. Go out and show those eighteen backers that you have a reason to be proud of your F. & B. That's all, people. Good luck to you." -ARTHUR KOBER ENTIR.EL Y UNNECE5SAR. Y VER.5E5 TO A YOUNG GIRL ARRIVING IN NEW YORK FROM IRELAND Not that anybody knows, My little dear, But don't depend upon a rose Behind the ear! Rather fling a scarf of gold Across your shoulder, Let your careless glance grow cold, Your profile colder. Do not part your copper hair Like that dem urel y ! Touching both your cheek-bones where The color surely Blends too sweetly for belief, Dark forest-fairy, You will conle to bitter grief, And never marry. Rather toss it to the breeze And wear it flying, 'Twill better match your lovely knees And hide your crying, Should you find yourself bereft Far from your wildwood, Should you suddenly be left Without your childhood. Paint your lips a sullen red, My little dear, And when your heart is really dead, Y ou'lllike it here. -P ATIENCE EDEN . . OF ALL THINGS T HE last week of the political contest was brightened by the touching ballad, "J ust Before the Sham Battle, Mother." As sung by Charles E. Hughes, the happy lawyer. . Like everybody else, we know what this country needs today. It needs a good, nationwide, nonpartisan, non- sectarian disinfectant. . Up to the last we hoped against hope that some politician would 'Yin immor- tality by saying: "It looks perfectly terrible for our side." But it was not to he. . The bartender of a Great Neck speakeasy wept when the police de- luged his place with tear gas. The same result might have been obtained more NOVEMBER 10. 1918 cheaply by telling him that prohibition was at an end. . The stowaway on the Grat Zeppehn immediately got fourteen proposals of marriage from German girls. I t is hoped that their action will put an end to the annoying practIce. . The Chicago continuation schools have added to the curriculum a course on makeup. We understand, however, that the popular science of stickup is still taught 'by the archaic apprentice system. . It now appears that by an ironical mischance one of the alleged oil wells which landed Doctor Cook in jail has produced a gusher. It only remains now for some arctic explorer to find the doctor's visiting card at the North Pole.. . The Outlook set out to prove that Vanzetti had no part in the Bridge- V\ ' ater holdup which counted against him at the murder trial with Sacco. Our scouts report that Governor Ful- ler's lack of interest in this subject is practically intense. . Now that tþe Nicaragua election is over, the Marines ought to be allowed to come home. Perhaps, however, they will be asked to stay until the administration carries out its election . promIses. . Conversation between Schenectady and Australia is a wonderful scientific achievement, but the talk was far from cosmic in its importance. The horrible thought arises that Schenectady may never have anything fascinating to say to Australia. -HOWARD BRUBAKER . . BOOK 'VEEK IS OBSERVED AT LIBRARY- Headline in the Pasadena (Cal.) Star- News. Sounds far-fetched.