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Goble wanted his part rewritten as a Scotchman , so as to get McAndrew , the fellow who made such a hit last season in ` Hoots , Mon ! ' That sort of thing is always happening in musical comedy . You have to fit parts to suit whatever good people happen to be available at the moment . When you 've had one or two experiences of changing your Italian count to a Jewish millionaire -- invariably against time : they always want the script on Thursday next at noon -- and then changing him again to a Russian Bolshevik , you begin to realize what is meant by the words ` Death , where is thy sting ? ' My heart bleeds for Freddie , but what can one do ? At any rate he is n't so badly off as a fellow was in one of my shows . In the second act he was supposed to have escaped from an asylum , and the management , in a passion for realism , insisted that he should shave his head .