Modified On August 30, 2006
How many of us have been thinking the following, but never actually said it? It’s a quote from the delightful vaudeville history “No Applause– Just Throw Money,” by Trav S.D. The tirade is attributed to performer Richard Bennett, who had apparently had enough of one particular Ohio town’s audiences:
“For forty years I’ve been an actor on the American stage. My entire family is well represented in the entire field of show business. I’ve played this very city of Cincinnati for thirty or forty years. I’ve never had a decent reception here. I’ve been waiting all this time, ladies and gentleman, to say to you that you, the people of Cincinnati, are the greatest morons, the most unintelligent, illiterate bastards I have ever appeared before in my entire life. Take a good look at me, because you’ll never see me again.”
They never did.