They don't waste much time on a come-
dian in the Follies. It don't take long to
spring the two gags they can think up for
him in a year, and besides, he just inter-
feres with the big gal numbers, where
Bunny GranvUle or somebody dreams of
the different flappers he danced with at
the prom, and the souvenirs they give
him; and one by one the different gals
writhes in, dressed like the stage director
thinks they dress at the female colleges —

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a Wesley gal in pink tights, a Vassar
dame in hula-hula, and a Smith gal with
a sombrero and a sailor suit. He does a
couple of steps with them and they each
hand him a flower or a vegetable to re-
member them by. The song winds up :

But my most exclusive token
Is a little hangnail broken
Off the gal from Gussie's School for
Manicures.
And his real sweet patootie comes on
made up as a scissors.
You've saw Ralston? He's a good
comedian; no getting ^way from that.
The way he fixes up his face, you laugh
just to look at him. I yelled when I first
seen him. He was supposed to be an of-
fice boy and he got back late from lunch
and the boss ast him what made him late
and he said he stopped to buy the extra.
