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Bein’ Usher in a Motion Picture Show There’s lots o’ things I like to do; go swimming, shoot, and camp, And ride a horse, and row a boat, and play football, and tramp. But of all the fun a-goin’, more than anything I know, I’d like to be an usher in a Motion Picture Show. To wear a uniform of blue, and walk on up the aisle, And show the people to their seats, and boss the crowd in style, And look around as if I owned the whole blame thing, you know. Gee! I wish I was an usher in a Motion Picture show. But best of all about it is to see each Photoplay, And never miss a single one, but see them every day. The cowboys riding round like mad, the soldiers, Indians—oh, I’d give a lot to usher in a Motion Picture show. And think of all the things I’d learn; the lots of history, Geography, and such—O my, the foreign lands I’d see! I’d learn more than I do at school of all such things, I know, All just by bein’ usher in a Motion Picture show. Fred White, he says, when he’s growed up, he’ll be a millionaire. And Tom says his ambition is to fill the Pres’dent’s chair. I’ve got one wish, beside it any other would seem slow— I want to be an usher in a Motion Picture show. mary carolyn davies, Motion Picture Story Magazine (June 1912), 102 ...

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