228 Sunday December 30, 194. Cloudy and dark - 14. I will go on with the entertainment i.e. a descrip- tion of it as we did nothing t-day of importance. When the excitement aroused by the opening chorus had subsided I came out into the big room and asked for the Doctor. I tried to appear worried and remarked that Tot had something wrong with his stomach. A few minutes later we were ready to go on with the next act. The curtain rose on a kind of operating room- Hal had his instruments spread out, and in the middle of the properties lay Tot upon an operating table. I gave the lookbook then while Hal proceeded. It open up his (Tot's) abdomen and take out various things. Of course we had a dummy on the table to represent Tot while his head stuck up thru a hole and appeared to join the body at the proper place. At first the inquirers realized that this was some joke but they did not feel quite sure where reality ended and the joke began. Tot groaned very realistically from time to time, and, by means of a stick raised his or rather the dummy's leg up in the most life like manner from time to time. Finally Hal appeared to get very angry and snatch up the large breadknife from the pantry shelf proceeded to decapitate Tot. Not satisfied with this he lifted the headless body from the table and hurled it out into the audience. Jimmie almost climbed up the book case getting out of the way.