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Show The. Ghosts of the Great White Way By DAMON RUNYON. Have you heard of the Ghost? of Broadway the Jinx of the Dream Defile? The Red-Eyed Ghost, and the White-Lipped Ghost, and the Ghost with the pood, glad smile? Wlien the ice in the wine can churns a tune 'and the glasses skate on the travs. The Ghosts come out. of their hives and sit and yarn in the giJt cafes. When the lights paint faces of daylight gloom to a night-time natured glow Thev tell their tales, which are old as .Sin that's th coldest gag we know. FIEST GHOST: :'I'm the Ghost of the Wine that flows each night in a mellow stream to Hell" SECOND GHOST: "I'm the Ghost of the Woman who knows some things she never will dare to tell" THIRD GHOST: "Well, well: "I'm the Ghost of the Song that rafts you along with a lilting, tilting lay" ALL THREE : "Ho, we're the Ghosts of the Game, and the Ghosts you must tame I Wlien von nlav on the big White Way!" i Sure! You've met with the Ghosts of Broadway, the ha'nts of the Path of the. Wise, With the lint of the pillows still stuck in their hnir and a bathroom look in their eves. When the Unfits are splashing the taxi trails and the skirts raise a perfumed brce.e, , . Thev sit in the sno.res with the whirling doors and yarn at their gTaveyard ease; find the low-necked squadrons pass in review and hear the tales for a while Of the Wine and the Woman and bright-faced Song that drools with a good, gla4 smile. fc FIRST GHOST: "I'm the Ghost of the Wine that brings the aches in the dawn of the day to come.'' SECOND GHOST: "I'm the' Ghost of the Woman who smooths the brow when it throbs like an aching drum ! ' ' THIRD GHOST: "I'm the Ghost of the Song that drowns the wrong and makes the heart tank pa ALL THREE: I "Ho, we'll drink and sing to the joyful ring i Of the bells on the Great White Way!" I So here's to the Ghosts of Broadway, where the old bnll fiddle snorts J To the White-!, ipped I .ho-'., with ah bad. sad smi, and both of her feliow sports. ' When -he n,'.:sic oresrep the hsnd to the jv,-,re and the cDrhoniz-d grane .iu:ce flies. Let's drink to the limit)) of the Br-lwy Gho'ts Hr.H the tomb where their history lies. (Continued on Following Page.) THE GHOSTS OF THE GREAT WHITE WAY , ..- (Continued from Frcccrting Tzne.) Oh. 'ho orl.i is tnmM.M fii..utfl t.v w ami H''v's lKt on On- Ihvtnn IVfilo An.) b.-r- to th- IW-Fvci. Wh- I-MY"! i.bi. ml ('I"1"' with I he gw., jiM Mil-: FIRST C-JiOST: "Here's to the Woman who soo'he the ln-nw niM 'l?ys our fenvs :n.l fret?" . SECOND GITCST: "Here's to the Wine that hs!.i the new anil softens the ol.l regrets" THIF.D GHOST: "'And Song s;!ntes the new reernils w ho eonie to onr crowd, each .lay" ALL TIir.EE: "Well, well! e ruttle onr hones on the T:ro;i-l i av .tones Ka.-h nitfht on the (ireat White Way'. " |