VAUDEVILLE SEES THE LIGHT
For years the Anti-Saloon League has been a great joke for vaudeville artistes. In comic song and puns and coarse jests they have harpooned the dry cause. But light is breaking in ‘vodeville” circles, as the following dialogue would indicate, pulled off in M< Vickers' Theatre, Chicago: “You don’t mean to say you’ve sworn off on regular booze?” “Yes, sir; I’ve sworn off.” “What induced you to climb on the water waggon ?” “Watching ihe liquor dealers’ parade last yveek.” “Tell me about it.” “First came a lot of swell dressed men on horseback.” “Who were they?” “Those yverc wholesale liquor dealers. Then came another lot of swell dressed men liding in automobiles ” 11 Who were then V They yvere retail liquor dealers. Then came a lot of i>oor, homeless, tattered bums on foot.” “Who were they? “They were the consumers.” -“American Issue.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 297, 18 March 1920, Page 7
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