Suzette on Mamie

NZ Truth, Issue 1029, 15 August 1925, Page 6

Suzette on Mamie

As a stage lady, Miss Mamie 'Watson had quite a happy, jaunt m this country and Australia, but — well, there are always "buts." "Suzette" tells something of it m Melbourne "Truth," from which it would appear that the animal that digs m its claws while it purrs has nothing on "Suzette." "Most of us (she writes) were sorry to see Mamie Watson go away. She was quite chamiing on the stage, and was almost as nice off — if one didn't see too much of her. But she is her own little press agent all right. The line of chat she handed out about the block of land., at Cambei-well and settling down thereon with dear old mother was rather priceless. But still a good deal can be overlooked m farewell messages. As a matter of fact, the last time I saw Mamie she complained very bitterly of how inhospitable the Australians were, and when I pointed out to her that, although they were delighted to entertain her, they were not overjoyed to see j 'Mommer' and the. young man who used to accompany her. j And, too, she openly declared that she would buy nothing m Australia, and was waiting until she returned to England to get any more clothes to wear. "And all this from a young woman who, though pretty enough m her way, just had a job as 'extra lady' on the London stage. However, if she does return to Australia, we might have learned something by that time." _^___________ "I say, doctor, did you ever doctor another doctor?" "Oh, yes." "Well, tell me this: Does a doctor doctor a doctor the way the doctored doctor wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor the other doctor m his own way?" In the olden, golden days of our sainted mothers, the bow-legged girl could hide ! , j