Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1913 — Was Disappointed. [ARTICLE]
Was Disappointed.
J. H. Kempner, chief of the Cincinnati kinemacoior headquarters, had been pestered by the family washerwoman for passes to the show. “Ah sborely do wanner see dem only real cullud movin’ pitchers,” said she. Finally Mr. Kemper gave her a couple of passes for some gallery Beats, and the following Mofiday morning whep she reported for her regular weekly engagement he inquired: “Well, auntie, how did you like the show?” i “ ’Deed, Mistah Kempner, dat sutnly wuz some fine show, an’ dem dresses is shore gorgeous, but ah was a mite dispinted.” * “How was that, auntie?” asked Kempner. “What was wrong?” “Oh, ah didn’t see no real cullud folks iil*de play, Mistah Kempner, an’ you advumtizements shorely does say so.”
