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Recipe For The Musical Comedy Composer:

Librettos of all of the operas,
Some shears and a bottle of paste,
Curry the hits of last season,
Add tumpty-tee tra la to taste.

- Life.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXV. Paradoxes.

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Nursery Rhyme. LXXXV. Proverbs.

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Nursery Rhyme. DXX. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLIV. Gaffers And Gammers.

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Recipe For A Waiter:

Stuff a hired dress-suit case with an effort to please,
Add a half-dozen stumbles and trips;
Remove his right thumb from the cranberry sauce,
Roll in crumbs, melted butter and tips.

- Life.

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Recipe For An Orchestra Leader:

Four hundred and twenty-two movements -
Emanuel, Swedish and Swiss -
It's a wonder the hand can keep playing,
You'd think they'd die laughing at this!

- Life.

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Authors

The following is a recipe for an author:

Take the usual number of fingers,
Add paper, manila or white,
A typewriter, plenty of postage
And something or other to write.

- Life.

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Recipe For An Editor:

Take a personal hatred of authors,
Mix this with a fiendish delight
In refusing all efforts of genius
And maiming all poets on sight.

- Life.

Unknown

Recipe for an ingenue:

A pound and three-quarters of kitten,
Three ounces of flounces and sighs;
Add wiggles and giggles and gurgles,
And ringlets and dimples and eyes.

- Life.

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Recipe for an actor:

To one slice of ham add assortment of roles.
Steep the head in mash notes till it swells,
Garnish with onions, tomatoes and beets,
Or with eggs - from afar - in the shells.

- Life.

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