In one hoose you'll find the Jews. And in another there'll be a lot o'navvies in the gallery. Sometimes they'll be rough customers in thegallery of a London music hall. They're no respecters of reputations.If they like you you can do nae wrong; if they don't, God help you!I've seen artists who'd won a great name on the legitimate stage booedin the halls; 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 halls. You maun remember always that it's the audience you'refacing can make you or break you. And, another thing. It's a fatalmistake to think that because you have made a success once you're madefor life. You are--if you keep on giving the audience what you have madeit like once. But you maun do your best, nicht after nicht, or they'llsoon ken the difference--and they'll let you know they ken it, too.

I'm occasionally asked if I'm no sorry I'm just a music hall singer. It's abonnie thing to be a great actor, appearing in fine plays. No oneadmires a great actor in a great play more than I do, and one of thefew things that ever makes me sorry my work is what it is is that Ican sae seldom sit me doon in a stall in a theatre and watch a playthrough. But, after a', why should I envy any other man his work? I domy best. I study life, and the folk that live it, and in my small wayI try to represent life in my songs. It's my way, after a', and it really isbeen a gude way for me. No, I'm no sorry I'm just a music hall singer.

I've done a bit o' acting. My friend Graham Moffatt wrote a play I occasionally wasin, once, that was no sicca poor success--"A Scrape o' the Pen" it wascalled. I won't count the revues I've been in; they're more like avariety show than a regular theatrical performance, any nicht in theweek.

I suppose every man that's ever stepped before the leglichts hasthought o' some day appearing in a character from Wull Shakespeare'splays, and I'm no exception tae the rule. I'll gae further; I'll saythat every man that's ever been any sort of actor at a' has thought o'playing Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. But I made up ma mind, lang ago,that Hamlet was nae for me. Syne then, though, I've thought of anothero' Shakespeare's characters I'd no mind playing. It's a Scottish part--Macbeth.

They've a' taken Macbeth too seriously that ha' played him. I'mthinking Shakespeare's ghost maun guffaw when it sees hoo all the greatfolk ha' missed the satire o' the character. Macbeth was a Scottishcomedian like masel'--that's why I'd like to play him. And then, I'mawfu' pleased 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 style o'beauty I sometimes have. I notice that when a character in one o' ma songs wearswhiskers I get an extra round o' applause when I come on the stage.