18(?). Green Room Jokes. ‘Pray, good sir, what is a canoodler?’
‘Tell you, mum, queer business, mum, but prosperous, money—heaps of
it, mum, for you and me’—and he winked significantly, jerked up a
chair, and squatted in it, all in a breath.... Undeterred, he
rattled on: ‘I’m an original thinker, mum. Invent business
opportunities. Share ’m with actors, and then we canoodle—divvy the
profits. Me and Sheridan made a big thing on the Japanese
advertising screen in “School for Scandal!” Big thing.’