Pat Rooney

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Pat announces he will render "The Rocky Road to Dublin." The audience remembers this is Miss Carus's piece de resistance. He starts. Enter Emma, clad in a dressing-room garment, her face smeared with some cosmetic from a big can she holds. The look, the silence, the outburst of professional jealousy-- oh! what a riot.
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Robinson Locke Collection, Ser. 2, Vol. 29, page 38