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what to do. And Fm so glad that you are not here to see how lonesome I am — because it would break your heart.’
“How do you like it?”
“Fine. Sounds like poetry. Is it?”
“No, you poor goat; it's an Irish bull, that’s what it is. I think it’s almost as funny as Shakespeare’s joke — where Desdemona says, ‘Where’s my handkerchief?’ And Othello says, ‘Use your sleeve and let the show go on.’ I think it is a very good Irish joke, and that I am a very good Irish jokess.”
“When do you go to France?”
“Fm not going. President Wilson told me he thought I could do better work for the soldiers over here, if I would. So Fm giving up this job with the ‘Revue’ pretty soon and traveling around the thirty-six Liberty theaters for about twelve weeks.
“And Fm not," she went on, “doing my bit — just because Fm playing all these theaters and taking no pay for it and paying my own expenses.
“Fm doing just a bit of my bit, that’s all,” she said with soft star-spangledness. “I want all the wives and sisters and sweethearts to know that I feel that these audiences, before whom I shall have the privilege of appearing, are getting ready to fight for us in Europe. They make it possible for America to have safe homes to live in — and for me to have theaters open in which I can appear and earn my living. Fm not making any greater sacrifice than Irving Fisher is.”
“He tours the Liberty Theaters with you?”
“Yes, and so does another of my inseparable mental lovers — Harry Akst, my pianist.”
“Aren’t you afraid?”