Show business
Sir: Arthur Askey recounts that in his young days he was rehearsing a turn with George Robey, who kept saying, "that joke doesn't suit you", and using it himself. By the end of the rehearsal Robey had all the jokes, and Askey had none. That's show-business.
Askey says however that, on the night, he defeated Robey by departing from the script and ad-libbing. He says that this was on the suggestion of his wife. That's also show-business.
. Parallels are irresistible with Crossman's upstaging of Wilson in his posthumous diaries, and Wilson's determination to censor these while claiming that it is nothing to do with him. That, too, is show-business.
Robey of course styled himself the
Prime Minister of Mirth. He was no oo .
W. S. Brownlie
19 Hut-Wei-shill ad, Paisley
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