Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Beggar Has New Angle Can You Spare a Teddy By BILLY ROSE There's a beggar in New York with a new sales you spare the price of a teddy bear for my sick little It so happens that this panhandler hasn't got a sick little but that doesn't mean you have to turn him down if you meet up with His story Is hearts-and-flowers and I'll tell it to you as it was told to me the other night by Charlie the Broadway press agent few days before said was standing In front of a toy shop on Fifth Avenue when a seedy-looking guy tapped me on the arm and asked if I could spare the of a teddy When I told him to quit his kid- l j he explained v. he wanted it for his V fl sick little ard 1 that if I didn't think he was on the ML u p a n d u p he'd write his name and address on a piece Roi ot paper and I could have It filled with the old Easter spirit I walked the shop and picked out a five-dollar but when I handed the slip to the girl who waited on me she gave me a funny look and said I was the third person that afternoon who'd ordered one sent to that SMELLED LIKE a good human Interest nd so I had her wrap up the toy and set out to de liver it It was a flat In a walk-up tenement in the near Tenth and the door was opened by a woman who looked as if she could use a little you got th teddy you I been getting two or three every afternoon for the last she you run into it turned was her husband and he had been missing for several Things hadn't been going well with them for quite some and when his unemployment insurance ran out last March the going got real to make things still their three-year-old had sick and the doctors at the clinic couldn't seem to do much for TEDDY BEAR angle had come about this Shortly after Peggy became she asked for a teddy bear and kept talking about it all the Tim said he thought it would do her more good than all the but what with the room rent and they Just couldn't afford to buy A month ago he walked out of the and ever since teddy bears had been arriving at the rate of two or three a all those I said to the daughter must be a happy little too late to do any she died two days before her father And the teddy beats probably have helped anyhow she bad I told her I couldn't understand why j man was mooching teddy bears for a dead the woman said she was afraid Tim had cracked He was never one to accept reality ara in his fuzzy condition he probably still thought the kid was I saM have you been doing with the teddy woman told me she had gotten to know the doctors at the pretty and when her husband disappeared they had found her a job at the hospital as cleaning There are a lot kids in the charity ward where I she they get u big kick out of those teddy |