Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Handsome Is Handsome s Does Case of Mind Over Mattress By BILLY ROSE At a spaghetti salon I got to talking with a reformed bootlegger bootlegger bootlegger boot boot- legger who is currently the Mister Big of a big whiskey company What do you hear from rom the mob I asked Anything that would fill up three sheets of copy paper The former Man of Extinction thought a minute Theres one story I dont don't remember seeing in print he said Its about an old man named who ran a candy store on the East Side around the time Dutch Schultz was buying his first delivery trucks One night as the storekeeper was about to lock up a hoodlum stepped into the shop and pressed a agun agun t gun against the theold theold theold i old mans man's mid mId- dle Hide me somewhere h he said The old man f. f knew better than r to argue with a revolver chasing you Belly Bly Rose lose he asked as he opened the trap door which led to the cellar Some fellas from Jersey When they got to the basement pointed to a couple of ot old mattresses near the coal bin Lay down he said and Ill I'll make a sandwich A minute later the storekeeper had rolled man and roa mattresses Into a bundle and tied it up with a piece of old clothesline AS HE DE STARTED back up to the store a couple of men guns In Inland hand land came down the stairs What cha doin in the cellar asked one Bankin the furnace said the theold theold theold old man The gents from rom Jersey poked around in the trash barrels examined examined examined ex ex- ex- ex the coal bin and then came cameto cameo to o the rolled up mattresses Ill throw a bullet into them for luck luck said one o of f them You 1 ou been sui too many mot movies es said the other Lets Left try the roof The mobsters went upstairs and andRonowitz andRonowitz andRonowitz heard the door bang He banked the fire tire and waited In his store until he saw the men climb into a car and drive of off Then he went back down and untied the mattresses You done fine Pop said the fugitive taking a wad of bills bus out of his pocket Tell me when to stop countin Such money I 1 dont don't take said the old manYa man Ya 1 a kin have barf anything ya yo want said the gangster Make a wish Better Beller yet yel make three wishes wi like liken in them fairy stor stor- ics ies ies Well said the storekeeper I III hear in a couple weeks some guy from the West Side Is opening a candy store on the next block He lie aint gonna open said the hoodlum Keep The man who sells me my chocolate syrup all of a sudden he wants a 15 per cent mark markup Ill discuss It with him Chances are arc you'll get a reduction One more wish to go this go-this this time make It good all I can think of said excepting maybe you'd like to tell me how it felt when you was in hi the mattress THE TIlE GANGSTERS GANGSTER'S lips tight tight- ened Youre makin fun of ot me Pop he said and I dont don't like it I wanted to pay ya off oU nice and proper but since ya dont don't want it that way maybe I better try some- some thin else Ten minutes later as per phone Instructions from the hoodlum a n black car drove up and was pushed Into the back seat The car headed north and kept going until it parked near a wooden woodenbridge woodenbridge bridge somewhere in Westchester The driver took some chains from rom the thc luggage compartment put puta a heavy piece of scrap iron on theold the theold theold old mans man's middle and then lashed his legs to his chest so th the metal was wedged in between Throw Mm bim over when I 1 count three said lh the hoodlum One One Two Two I The old man braced himself and wondered who would mind th the store lh the next day dIZY Suddenly the gangster grinned He walked over and began to undo the chains Now you got your answer Pop he said how I felt when I was In the mattress |