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DOROTHY MANNERS
DAD" Quillan, wholesale pere of Eddie and the clan of other Quillans, is a grand old gentleman. He eats prodigiously. He waves his arms with :otch gusto. He believes doggedly that peoe are good and that religion, particularly s religion, is vital to living life. Now and len, he thunders his approval, or disaproval, of some given point by slamming ie fist of one hand into the palm of anther. In another mood, he winks slyly t his own quips and teases his brood in a oneyed Scotch brogue. He can be Mider as a woman or as roaring
as
eacon.
He has been an actor all his life — and 11 of his children are talented "by the jrace of God." He is no part of Hollyood. His heart is too big and simple, Imost as big as that twenty-seven)om, old-fashioned house that covis his Scotchlmgs. He belongs to nother day, when life was less (implicated. "Dad" Quillan is a rand old gentleman.
He told me, "Hollywood can't ver do anything to my children. It-cause they are too wise — not in >nok learnin', mmd you, but m knowng life out of lessons from real exn riences. Take Eddie. K ain't any more tainted than my others, ur he gets the break. \ll right. All right. I hat's the way things lappen. But it won't hange him any. He ;iu)\vs it for just \ hat it is. A break. I hat's because he's I real trouper, not of these upstarts N.it flares up withmr knowing what his business is all
libout. He knows har maybe to-morow It may be one of
lis sisters or his brothers that's up.
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Dad" Quillan's Yo ungsters Learned Their Lessons Backstage
boy in a Scotch plaid skirt, swinging around on the vaudeville stage, he learned how uncertam the breaks are. I drilled it into them when they was babies.
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If you think the irrepressible Eddie ("who got a break " ! are right, as you can see directly above, where "Dad" and up solidly by John. Eddie, Marie, Buster, Joe, Helen,
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AYBE in one town we'd get over like a house afire. Stop the show. My tots would trot back and take encores until they was more tired from that than the work of the act. And maybe I'd see just a little bit of conceit cropping out in them. But I wouldn't say nothing. No, ma'am. I'd bide my time. In teaching children, actions speak much louder than any words. I'd just wait. And sure enough, sooner or later, we'd hit a town where the act would fall flatter than the proverbial pancake. Then I'd rally my discouraged little brood around me. That was the time to tell them something.
"'Children,' I'd say, 'it goes to show you that you can't ever get in a spot where you can't be upset. You ain't never so good that somebody in the world can't up and find you pretty bad. It's part of this game. It's also part of the game of living. When you get to the point when you can take the big spots along with the rough ones, and take them both alike, you'll be wiser than an owl.'
"I taught them to come into the theater quietly and be neat in their dressing-rooms and courteous to everybody, from the headliner to the stage-hands. \ audeville people hate {Continued on page 87)
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