ETIQUETTE LESSON
Perhaps my first real appreciation of the great truth of etiquette was born when I was playing the old Onyx Theatre in Chillicothe, Ohio. The headliner was a trainer in a room adjoining mine at the hotel. One evening, I entered the bathroom, intent on a refreshing tub. Whom should I discover in the bathtub but the seal, sandwiched between two cakes of ice. I. spoke sharply—perhaps too sharply —and stalked out in high dudgeon. Presently I heard the ring of a buzzer from the bath between; then a considerable sloshing of water. I went to investigate and—on my word, friends—the seal had buzzed the desk. 1 for a brush and was scrubbing the ring from the tub for me! Great tears streamed down my cheeks. I never forgot that lesson. It taught me in a flash what true etiquette is.—W. G. Fields in This Week Magazine.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 134, 11 March 1940, Page 2
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149ETIQUETTE LESSON Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 134, 11 March 1940, Page 2
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