He took pity on tearful Mildred""s penniless state and gave her apartment rent money and arranged to take care of her financially.The two dig up the fresh grave after the grave-digger has left.To symbolize Henry""s sacrilegious lack of respect for the subject of death - an example of black humor, one shovelful of his dirt is irreverently thrown directly into the face of a nearby statue of the Grim Reaper! After completing the digging, hey stand the coffin on end.Then my folks got a real break when my little sister, Josie, made her entrance.She grew to love show business just as she loved everybody and everything.We toured the kerosene circuit in a tank show called ""Daniel Boone on the Trail."" Everybody doubled in brass.Dad walloped the bass drum.For some reason they teamed me with a donkey.I was a good Democrat, even in those days.Mother and Josie threw out handbills.Their smiles would have sold tickets o wooden Indians.They kept putting new stars in the flag and he Cohans kept rushing out to meet them.We had jokes to match every cornfield.We sang at every milk station.Young "MASTER GEORGIE" (Henry Blair at age 7) is a child performer, doing "Violin Tricks and Tinkling Tunes" in his family""s vaudeville show, and singing the same number and wearing the same outfit as his father did in the earlier number.Envisioning making a quick buck, Cobby retreats o a back room to telephone Emmerich, while "Doc," left to himself, scrutinizes the attractive girlie calendar (with his spectacles this time) for a second look.