Perhaps People, And Kids Especially,

Once A Song And Dance Man, Always A Song And Dance Man. Those Few Words Tell As Much About Me Professionally As There Is To Tell.

Outside Of My Family, The Prime Concern Of My Life Has Been Nature And Its Order, And How We Have Been Savagely Altering That Order.

My Father Was Totally Irish, And So I Went To Ireland Once. I Found It To Be Very Much Like New York, For It Was A Beautiful Country, And Both The Women And Men Were Good-looking.

You Know, The Period Of World War I And The Roaring Twenties Were Really Just About The Same As Today. You Worked, And You Made A Living If You Could, And You Tired To Make The Best Of Things. For An Actor Or A Dancer, It Was No Different Then Than Today. It Was A Struggle.

New Orleans Is 5 Feet Below Sea Level, Which Means That Holes Dug In The Ground Immediately Fill With Water. Coffins Were Punctured And Sunk With Weights, Which Didn't Stop Them From Floating Up Out Of The Cemeteries And Down The Streets Of The French Quarter On Stormy Nights. The Solution Was To Bury People Above Ground, In What Are Called Vaults.