Judge — January 7, 1922 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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Pup’s Letter to Skinny 5» Arthur rite January 7th 1922 Dear Skinny I gave your letter the once over and was pleased to hear the boys of the Social Club are going so good for the show for there smoker. You asked me to get a line on the funny birds with the big shows on Broadway to slip you some of their gags and stunts. last Monday night I thought I'll shake a leg toa real snappy one and get some hot jokes for skinny and the boys. say I saw two birds will knock your eye out. There names are Joe E. Brown and Gordon Dooley. Say they sing and dance and fall around something awful. You boys try it and you'll break your necks I'll say. good jokes to. Dooley he's the lady pulls one about being a grass widow and Brown he's the man he says if he had a lawn mower he'd run her down. Then Brown he took a crack at the Blue Law crowd he says the Blue law is a black idea created by a yellow streak in the colorless hearts of pale people green with envy that make white men see red. Read it again and you'll get it. Say that fellow Dooleys some girl I knew he wasn't a real girl right away when he come on. And Brown, when he laughs hes got a mouth like the door to Bill Hankins garage. Then there in a fair and Brown gets the job of selling lollypops He gets a big idea and sells lollypops to peaches for kiss— es One live one takes him up and you should have seen that kiss oh me for it! Knowing ) you wanted real stuff for your show I went around back to see these two There regular fellows. When I got to there dressing rooms I didn't know just what to say but I told them why I came and they were good sports. Brown told me he was born in Toledo and not ashamed. He started tumbling on an old couch when he was seven. When he was nine he landed a job with a circus that blew into town working around washing dishes and helping put up the tent until he got a job with the clowns at 1.50 a week. In five years he got raised to 7 bucks. Then he went to vaudeville and did tumbling with songs. His pardner Frank Prevost discovered he was funny so he began some of that stuff. In 1920 he played outfield with the Boston Red Sox. Dooleys a bird from Altoona Pa He wasnt with a circus though his father was a scotch clown His first stage job was a minstrel troup Say you should see that fellow fall on his back and face and all over its the limit And he's some girl. When he and Brown sing they sing ''Mr. Brown and Miss Dooley'' there great and Browns face makes you laugh to look at. Heres some pictures to show how they look If you want to get on the stage start in a circus. Yours Pup. I saw lots more I'll say I did. A peach ina one piece bathing suit and a lot of peaches in no more But you know skinny theres no jokes in them gold diggers they take you seriously so I didn't let on I Ee’ noticed them. er |