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Fanny and I and the Baby
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like a lamp, I’m supposed to get married in the last act of ‘The Royal Slave’ !
“ ‘I’ve got to have some clothes to get married in,’ I told Rachel Lewis. ‘I’ve got to have anyway a veil.’
“ ‘I tell you what,’ says she — ‘you take the curtains off the window in your room at the hotel and you’ve got a swell wedding veil.’
“So I took ’em off and put ’em on. But we had to ring down quick on the last act. The hotel man was out in front and recognized his curtains.
“So I gave up,” Fanny sighed. “Rachel Lewis and this number four O’Neill had taken my chip diamond rings and pin and pawned them. They were beginning to come slow with the quarter a day for me and the dog. So I gave up and sat down to write to my mommuh to send me a ticket for home. And as I started to write I happened to look in a dingy mirror by the desk and I saw Lewis and O’Neill with their suitcases beating it out the side door.
“I ran and told a girl in the company and her mommuh, and the three of us followed ’em to the station. And when they got on the midnight train by one platform we got on by the other. And when the conductor says ‘Tickets' we only pointed to Lewis and O’Neill in a seat ahead — and they had to pay our fare
back to New York Don’t wish a life like that
on my baby.”
“But your troubles were over now, Fanny.”
“For me — maybe; but my mommuh! That girl and her mommuh I took to my home, and there they stayed for days and weeks, mostly in bed. They wouldn’t work, they wouldn’t move; just slept and ate. To this day my mommuh says: ‘Don’t bring me no actors !' ”