A painfully cross-eyed man in misfitting clothes was doing something supposed to be funny--pushing a lawn mower over the carpet of a palatial home.
"How disgusting!" exclaimed Miss Kearns.
"Ain't it ?" said Merton.

"How they can have one of those terrible things on the same bill with Miss Baxter--I can't understand it." "Those censors ought to suppress this sort of buffoonery instead of scenes of dignified passion like they did in Scarlet Sin," declared Tessie.

"Did you read about that ?" "They sure ought," agreed Merton.

"These comedies make me tired.

I never see one if I can help it." Walking on, they discussed the wretched public taste and the wretched actors that pandered to it.