Show BROADWAY AND M MAIN MN N STREET STREETWise STREETWise STREETWise Wise Boys Learn Impossible Sometimes Can Happen By BILLY ROSE 1 u d. d I Last night at Lindy's a bunch of ot us were discussing what for tor want of ot a better term Ill I'll call the Inevitability of ot the impossible The most Improbable yarn I 1 ever heard said Deems Taylor is Ss the one ono about a missionary named Renault who was captured in 1048 by a tribe of cannibals cannibal In French Equatorial Africa According to a report In la the files out at the UN U.N. just as a. the they were about to r roast ast him over a afire afire afire fire kebob shish style tyle the missionary mis mil y fell leU to his knees and asked raked the tho Lord to have bave mercy on his hi servant ser sea vant vent Renault And when the tho cannibal cairn canni i bal bat chief beard l the name he untied un tied him and told him about to go nUl bAly Rose Base his bis busin business u. u No It wasn't want the prayer that did the trick trick trick-it It seems lum that six Ix months before be they had bad ad cooked and eaten another gent len named Renault I and he bo had bad turned out to b be tough and tasteless I KNOW AN equally Implausible story I piped up The one about the clerk cleric in in Tacoma Washington on who wa w. was handed banded flue five thou thousand and dol dollart tars lara to buy bUl insurance for tor a bridge that w was wa under construction The fellow bad never stolen talen a nickel In lit bl his hi We life but this thil was on one temptation tempt lion tion be he couldn't stand tand off what oft wh t In Inthe inthe in inthe the name flame of the five Broth Broth- era ers could happen to a bridge Suiting to 10 thou thought Ib tbt tb clerk 11 wars to 10 Reno Ro and rul bl blew in Ih the tbt whole live ill grand d on couple cl oj gals gait J oJ and d Ib ban tbt tb night ore hlo bt h. was 11 u t due dut to 10 start back bach the tbt Mayor lUyo o oj Tacoma hoJ and rul wanted u to 10 know knout bout about Ih the tbt It IS d db b bas Ibal Ih tbt tb bridge Ih tbt GlIo Galloping l Gi ol oj Ih tbt lb news reds bas bad come om apart at et tbt tb m and J nd fallen alien into 10 Ih lit tb jerga S e e TIlE THE NOT IT that tops them all aU U is the one about Charles Charlea Coghlan said Eugene Burr who writes write the tho theatre pieces piece for Playbill Charles who 1 l asked Coghlan said Burr the actor who used to pia play opposite Lily Langtry back In tin tha last century When be he was 50 SO 50 be he bought himself a farm tarm on Prince Edward Island In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Gulf Gult of St St. t. t Lawrence and quit the tho Ita stage for tor what he be thought wa was good 1 A few yean years later however Robertson Forbes made him bun a Vet very attractive otter offer to pIa play 1 I u d. d In a touring production of Romeo and Juliet and while Coghlan hated to leave the Island be he couldn't afford to turn the offer down In one ono season hed he'd earn enough to be able to live comfortably the tho rest of hIs bis life We When his neighbors came down downto to the boat to see him bim off the tho actor assured them that come heaven or high water hed he'd return when his hla tour was ended And he be did did but but it U too took both heaven and high water and in that order to arrange it St hl 1111 eaves goy got 01 Into 10 Ih tbt tb act shortly boI tar II Ih the tbt tour Iou forced Id in I bt be h ul su a h bear biart stack attack 1 and nd J died and d Will was buried in I a II not nos I far at Irons from Ih tbt sea Ita Tbt Tb high w watt Came m mJ a year user J J lb 8 1900 when wh a tidal lit w his bit six Ii peep o l and J away eway a II good part ol o tbt Ih w O including most moll of e Ih tbt tb ins ilU in Ib tbt tb teas I Sa Some Somo months after the tho disaster a fisherman on Prince Edward Island Is' Is Island Is Is- land went down to the tho beach bach one morning to inspect his bit nets and found a coffin coUin which had bad washed u UD up p on oo the sands On it 11 wag wai a brut brass plate with the name Chutes Charles Coghlan the Coghlan the actor attar wt with an assist ats from the Gull Gulf Stream bad had made mad good lood his bis promos promise to re turn furs |