The $500 Check — page 266: what you’re looking at

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BERT’S FIRST STAGE APPEARANCE. 247 ‘“* Here is fifteen cents,’ hesaid. ‘* Tell your friends to come.” “Tll bring ’em. Ill tell’em I know one of de actors.”’ It may be remarked that Tom Roach, for this was the boy’s name, gave such glowing ac- counts of the play to his intimate friends that no less than ten of them accompanied him to the theatre the next evening, and were espe- cially enthusiastic when Bert was on the stage. Their liberal applause raised Bert in the good opinion of the management, who felt that they had secured a prize in the new actor. GOomichoo Ss (E(0) m