19 Fanny Brice-Swaynes Rats And Cats

Once we were on the bell with the with the Fanny Bryce I'm sure a lot of you remember Fanny Bryce He was quite a performer And on the bell too was that there was an act called Swain's Rats and Cats He wouldn't believe that but that was the name of the act and

They had a miniature racetrack on the stage and the rats were dressed as jockeys And the cats were horses It was an incredible act, imagine. Tishing these cats and rats to loin all this, and they wore the uniform soo.

And one day while it was doing the act, there was a screen pane from Fanny's dressing room and Swain ran in there. When he had a Turkish tower with him, he didn't know what he was going to.

Fanny Bryce is standing on the chair, frightened of that, got her clothes away up. grabs this rat. It wasn't one of the rats from his act. This was a sewer rat that had got into the theatre. Well, Swain captured this sewer. And the next year we played on a bill with Swain again, and this rat was now the star of the show.