We
have reached the end of the year. In fact it is just a few minutes
before midnight on the 31st December. The clock on the
Tolbooth is about to ring in the new year. An old Glasgow toast
is written below "Here's tae us,
wha's like us - Damn few and they're a' deid". ( Here's to
us, those who are like us, Not very many and they are all dead).
Below
we see a riot of well loved Glasgow entertainers such as Francie
and Josie as played by Jack Milroy and Ricki Fulton, Andy
Stewart, Billy Connolly and Stanley Baxter (as a pantomime dame)
to name but a few. This section was designed by the theatre illustrator
June Chrisfield Chapman. The stars appear on the stage
of Glasgow's King's Theatre and it makes a fitting end upon
which to ring down the curtain on Keeping
Glasgow in Stitches. There is
after all an old joke from the days when Glasgow was a
"mean city" which went...come to Glasgow for a
laugh and go away in stitches!
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