Show - u4406f44440 - - '''''''''' -- - t ' 0 I MY FAVORITS NOMA: TAXI DRIVERS ' Coniimaed from page 17 You Can't Top A Cabdriver Says Eddlo Cantor IL I Berle Ed Wynn and Al Jolson His own name Eddie - Davis was well known to people He wrote Joiscm's last Broadway show "Hold On To Your Hats" Ile made a star out of Jackie Gleason in another Broadway hit "Follow The Girls" After that be wrote several books and a flock of radio and television scripts A very agile comic mind I have swarm spot in my heart for taxi driven even though they can be devastating Several weeks ago in San Francisco I was in a taxi when we stopped at a red light My driiter yelled to another "Hey I got Eddie Cantor in my cab" Without removing the cigarette from his lips the other diver commented "Big deal mustache and glassesr When I nodded he said "Why the son of a gun! He ain't even married What's more he gets those cigars wholesale" My face has been before the public so long that I'm easily spotted Often the first thing a taxi driver will say is "How's Ida and that big family of yoursr One fellow was proud to tell me he was the father of seven children—six girls and a boy—after which he looked me in the eye and quipped "puitter This fellow had one of the greatest monologues I've show-busine-ss - 1 ' i 1 i 1 1 r 1 F Recently in I A Real ramlly Elan Washington where I spent three or 137' four t I 1 I 1 I t -- 1 ' ' Iha w-440 low whose wife had twins well you just couldn't give him a quarter tip So you slip him a or if you're feeling a little more generous you give him a dollar which I did Three days later I ran into the same guy who handed me the same brand of cigar with the same line "My wife had twins this morning" I figured even the most prolific of taxi drivers couldn't have kids that fast Later when I told it to a taxi starter in front of my hotel he laughed "Was it a guy with a half-doll- ar 1 '' M 't 1 - ID 4 : 4! r:0 r i 4 --- N Ig - --s- V 4111141641- ' N c A a' 1 r f ' i 1 - A1 0 1t I HAVE YOU A FAVORITE TAX STORY? Eddie Cantor isn't the only one who collects Jokes — and philosophy —from cabdrivers It seems everybody does If you have a favorite anecdote send it to us We will pay SIO for each one we publish Contributions cannot be acknowledged or returned Send "Your Favorite Taxicab Driver Story" to: THIS Wax Magazine Postortke Box 1576 Grand Central Station New York 17 N Y lb WHY DOES ho tarry hoe over tho threshold'? ' t ''''''''''' 14 7 i z r q -- -- d101418 do I said these things has moved his wife and seven children from an Eastern city to Hollywood He has his own home and swimming pool He draws a weekly salary of four figures and is writing some of the best comedy scripts coming from this end of the country He's my neighbor He borrows my station wagon I borrow his jokes We have more ftm To paraphrase Will Rogers "I never met a taxi driver I didn't like" i days I entered a cab and the driver handed me a cigar telling me that his wife had twins that morning A fel- t i elk I: t t "Ain't We Got run!" - ‘ - If this sounds like a bunch of jokes lightly strewn together I'd like to inform you that the taxi driver who r I n ever beard 1 had him send me some of his material which I later used on TV Some of his gags went like this — "Did you ever notice how healthy a girl is when you're courting her? She gets married Ind right away she has to see the dentist needs all kinds of doctors The dame is falling apart Every morning you've got to put her together with Scotch tape As brides they've got little slim figures You know why? Before marriage the average girl eats like a bird to hold that waistline Two months after the wedding she looks like Boulder Dam in slacks Why do you think the bride asks her husband to carry her &MSS the threshold? 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