The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I`d have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn`t know me. They wouldn`t drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn`t come down.
There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.
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