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I got the things alright and ought to have written before this but we did some Three Nights and you know what it is don‚Äôt you, all packing and etc. Now we are here for what you can call a run!‚ÅÝ‚Äîtill into the New Year at a sort of concert hall and picture place combined, not so big but comfy and clean, good stage and lighting etc.‚ÅÝ‚Äîall marvellous compared with what we have been playing lately I can tell you! Comfy rooms here too and on my own at last, Thank goodness, I got sick to death of having Susie Dean poking about all the time, not that we are not friends we are but you know what it is, my dear! Show looks like going well here, Good old Yorks. I say, if you can get them going up here they will stick to you alright every time. I had one encore last night and could have had another but of course I was told programme would not stand it. Too much Susie Dean and J. Jerningham in the programme if you ask me these days, what with the piano player writing songs for them as well and all that! His name is Inigo Jollifant says its real too!‚ÅÝ‚Äîand he is quite a nice boy but the way he goes mooning round S. Dean and the way she keeps him dangling would make you sick if it didn‚Äôt make you laugh. Kids game, I call it, but then thats all they are!
Well we look like having a nice Xmas for once. Playing Xmas Eve and then just one show on Boxing Day. Can you get off to come up, I don‚Äôt suppose you can, and I am wondering if I could manage it just for Xmas Day as it‚Äôs not so far. Are you still at the George or have you gone to the Vic as you said you might, and does Charlie come in and Jimmy and that tall fellow with the specs and all that lot, if they do just give them my love and tell them to be good boys till I come back! And guess who I saw here the very second day. I went into Leeds in the morning looking round shops‚ÅÝ‚ÄîI nearly bought a new coat in a little shop just off Briggate that was having a sale, large wrap in front and straight inlets carried down back and collar and cuffs and flounces lovely fur, just like real, and only ¬£4 19 6 reduced from seven gns, but I couldn‚Äôt run to it though if I wear my old black much longer they will be throwing things at me in the street. Well I got in the train to come back in the afternoon and guess who got into the very same carriage, you should have seen him jump, that boy we met at Scarborough year before last when I was with The Bluebells, you remember! It was the taller one with the light moustache who acted he was tight that time, Sunday night at the Crown, and he told me he would come to Luddenstall whenever I liked and gave me his office address and tel. no. so I shan‚Äôt exactly be lonely. He asked to be remembered to you and I had to tell you that his friend was married now. I am sorry for his wife, what do you say, my dear!
I am getting you some hankies, will let you have them tomorrow or day after. If you have not got anything for me yet make it a pair of silk stockings bit darker than usual shade I like to go with my red, if it will run to it. Give Uncle Arthur my love and tell him I am getting him a pipe once again, and let me know soon as you can if you can come but if you can, no bringing Ethel Golliver this time, you know what it was last time she came along! I like a bit of fun, my dear, but Ethel would get me run out of this show and out of the town as well! Is it true she is living with‚ÅÝ‚Äîyou know, the fellow we used to call Pink Percy‚ÅÝ‚Äîdoesn‚Äôt surprise me! Chin-chin, Effie, my dear and all the best for Xmas!