Listen babies: I am giving you the bloodline. I have a book called A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF VAUDEVILLE by Bernard Sobel. The foreword is by George Jessel. Put your ear to the wheel and listen:

"People like myself - and there aren't many left - who have been before the public for a half century, are all inclined to favor the yesterdays, and unless they are doing exceedingly well, they live in a capsule of the past, seeing beauty only in that which cannot return, believing to the full that everything that is old is sacred."

Yunnerstan? Death? One day you wake up and you're fifty and people you've known, or known about, your whole life, are dying all around you. It dawns on you: you ain't got that much time left. Better get the Jennifer Michael Hecht book out.

Listen babies: I am giving you the bloodline.