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MY CLIENT, CURLEY
Stinky. — Gee, look, a package from a place named Lakeshore with a lot of funny-lookin’ stamps.
Agent. — Lahore, not Lakeshore.
Stinky. — C’n I have the stamps?
Agent. — Yeah, here y’are. I sign Curley up for a superspecial movie short, and it sweeps the box office of the country in spite of terrible weather, including blizzards and rainstorms. Variety reports:
Variety. — Bliz and Driz Fail to Fizzle Biz as Bug Wows B.O. from N.Y. to L.A.
Agent. — Life magazine runs a Margaret Bourke-White picture of Curley on the cover, with the caption . . .
Life. — Curley.
Agent. — CBS does a pickup direct from Curley’s box, bringing the sound of Curley eating dinner.
Knell. — This is Jack Knell speaking to you from the head¬ quarters of Curley Enterprises, where we have a microphone buried among willow leaves to pick up the sound of the world’s leading insect danseuse, busy eating dinner after a hard day’s work of exhibiting his talents to the press.
Agent. — The New Yorker comes out with a cartoon showing Martha Graham nibbling willow leaves . . .
Man. — ( Laughter ) Did you see this cartoon in The New Yorker?
Woman. — Lemme see. ( Silence ) Well, what’s funny about that?
Man. — For heaven’s sake, don’t you get the point ?
Woman. — No.
Man. — Well, don’t you know who Martha Graham is?
Woman. — Yes.
Man.— -And you know who Curley is, of course ?
Woman.— -The caterpillar.
Man. — Yes. Well, now, you see, Curley lives on willow leaves, and . . .
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