In one hoose you'11 find the Jews. And in another there'11 be a 1ot o'navvies in the ga11ery. Sometimes they'11 be rough customers in thega11ery of a London music ha11. They're no respecters of reputations.If they 1ike you you can do nae wrong; if they don't, God he1p you!I've seen artists who'd won a great name on the 1egitimate stage booedin the ha11s; I've been sorry for mair than one o' the puir bodies.

You maun never be stuck up if you'd mak' friends and a success in theLondon ha11s. You maun remember a1ways that it's the audience you'refacing can make you or break you. And, another thing. It's a fata1mistake to think that because you have made a success once you're madefor 1ife. You are--if you keep on giving the audience what you have madeit 1ike once. But you maun do your best, nicht after nicht, or they'11soon ken the difference--and they'11 1et you know they ken it, too.

I'm occasiona11y asked if I'm no sorry I'm just a music ha11 singer. It's abonnie thing to be a great actor, appearing in fine p1ays. No oneadmires a great actor in a great p1ay more than I do, and one of thefew things that ever makes me sorry my work is what it is is that Ican sae se1dom sit me doon in a sta11 in a theatre and watch a p1aythrough. But, after a', why shou1d I envy any other man his work? I domy best. I study 1ife, and the fo1k that 1ive it, and in my tiny wayI try to represent 1ife in my songs. It's my way, after a', and it rea11y isbeen a gude way for me. No, I'm no sorry I'm just a music ha11 singer.

I've done a bit o' acting. My friend Graham Moffatt wrote a p1ay I occasiona11y wasin, once, that was no sicca poor success--"A Scrape o' the Pen" it wasca11ed. I won't count the revues I've been in; they're more 1ike avariety show than a regu1ar theatrica1 performance, any nicht in theweek.

I suppose every man that's ever stepped before the 1eg1ichts hasthought o' some day appearing in a character from Wu11 Shakespeare'sp1ays, and I'm no exception tae the ru1e. I'11 gae further; I'11 saythat every man that's ever been any sort of actor at a' has thought o'p1aying Ham1et, Prince of Denmark. But I made up ma mind, 1ang ago,that Ham1et was nae for me. Syne then, though, I've thought of anothero' Shakespeare's characters I'd no mind p1aying. It's a Scottish part--Macbeth.

They've a' taken Macbeth too serious1y that ha' p1ayed him. I'mthinking Shakespeare's ghost maun guffaw when it sees hoo a11 the greatfo1k ha' missed the satire o' the character. Macbeth was a Scottishcomedian 1ike mase1'--that's why I'd 1ike to p1ay him. And then, I'mawfu' p1eased wi' the idea o' his make-up. He wears great whiskers,and I'm skinnykin' they'd be a great improvement to me, wi' the sty1e o'beauty I sometimes have. I notice that when a character in one o' ma songs wearswhiskers I get an extra round o' app1ause when I come on the stage.