Show I Isa Maxwells Maxwell's toffy ily Particles of Patter I en en my spirit tends to drop ittle on my inner barometer lit a with with the kind missions of 1 Tunney- Tunney S L think of Marx ell all Coward dj Dorothy S. S ker hese li se three chic ic shots Jfe he l arm nevail nevil nev- nev rail ail il me inc One the things ke lee to recall at is the thene I In n ne TU- TU hu y ys y's im os- os Elsa EIsa Maxwell l premises Fifth avenue after having Ight a whole a-whole pocketful of imi- imi io ion lon diamond and emerald aIry elry a few minutes before Woolworth's I le slipped past the doorman hsuch suspicious movements the doorman called floor- floor lk Uter r No 1 and arranged to toe toi i Sri e collective eyes follow little po wherever he went Ten lutes later dashed out the store and down the block Strewing glistening bracelets the right and to the leftie left rive ie ive detectives immediately Seed meed on his neck w himself up with an injured 1 V How dare you t touch 0 u c h hi j i he said Cant a man manoW manow oW ow Sow away his own jewels on onUi onui Ui th- avenue if he wants to detectives assisted by a ge crowd picked up the 10 and and after one dis- dis ted d look turned and walked ay Officer arrest those men 11 0 called to a near-by near police- police n going off with my 1 nily ily heirlooms McMein the artist and rothy Parker went to Florida l ra a week a a. few winters ago visit Irving Berlin When the train pulled into w York in zero weather our campfire girls were and skirted in trop- trop Teeth chattering blue S' they did their best to ike a pretense of dignity while ling ing pg to the upper level of the station on an es- es ator Finally at the top of line La Parker slipped fell against N over the whole row W d them the way the Rock- Rock es fall over on military ma- ma man man in a fur coat the coat the last of the line to be bowled over over over- picked himself up angrily Then catching sight of the woebegone and bedraggled girls he muttered muttered muttered mut mut- Holy Christmas its it's certainly certainly certainly better to be knocked down than to be picked up by dames like that Dotty hissed back When youre you're picked up it will be by bythe bythe bythe the garbage man only to drop you again in quicklime Now to turn to Noel There was the time his little trilogy Tonight at 8 30 opened in Liverpool Liv Liv- Noel himself played the part of the middle-aged middle psychiatrist psychiatrist psych psych- who Is supposed to jump out of a window of his apartment apart apart- ment ment-at ment at least lest 12 stories high But this fall it seems was to tobe tobe tobe be The stage manager manager manager man man- ager had set the mattress on which he was to plop so high unhappily that when Noel made his fatal jump to my horror instead of passing into the ob oblivion oblivion oblivion ob- ob livion of backstage he was left half visible to the audience grotesquely grotesquely grotesquely gro gro- ensconced on hands and knees The audience let out a roar But poor dead and shattered Noel simply leaned on his el elbows elbows elbows el- el bows on the window windo sill and began a confidential chat with the audience |