| Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Uncle Charlie's Luck Is Bandit Crosses Him Up By BILLY ROSE Last Friday night on the way home from his weekly pinochle my Uncle Charlie was held up a few blocks from his home on Allen Street and a wallet containing was taken from him This strangely has made my Aunt Frieda very and with your leave and I'd like to tell vou why J To begin to hear my uncle tell Frieda i crazy like a fox about most but when it comes to fortune telling and allied she's crazy like a of in Charlie's own words drives him to destruction particularly when my aunt shells out good money for such charms and amulets as lucky horse-tail hairs and of string with seven magic I can t i once heard him tell a distinct twenty century type like you could a around with such f Frieda an- Il was M good enough by my ot h e r Is good enough by why didn't you marry your Billy Rose when I look at that's who I'm thinking I o o a THE MATTER CAME to a crisis last Friday when Charlie arrived home from the shop and Frieda asked him for 10 last week I am giving you 10 he you a down payment on a catalogue I am not Frieda sassed I am purchasing from a certain Gypsy a brass fish with the sign from which is absolute guar- to make a party wealthy and also Charlie examined the brass me it looks like a tin he is living this the back of a start on Suffolk and I am trust-MM laid I when Feitel-ton was the Gypsy told her to sew up the stuffed derma with black thread for a boy and white thread a and when she used the you saw what happened occasional takes suid my uncle a boy comes in the world without black thread in the stuffed The upshot of the argument was a decision to put the magical fish to a practical and when Char-he went that night for his weekly Pinochle the good-luck charm was his If he lost it was agree i Frieda would stop patronizing Gypsy establishments-if he made a he was to have more faith in her AS IT turned my uncle won ten dollars added to the three he started out gave him a take-home total of Reluctant to face gloating he took a roundabout way A few doors from a drugstore on Rivington a hoodlum step ped out of an alley and stuck him you the said Charlie genuine alligator said trie hold-up I'll bust in your said my uncle When Charlie got Frieda was considerably by the story of the and was forced to admit that the brass gee gaw was a But the next she gave my uncle the horse laugh when the mailman dropped off a small parcel with the wallet in its contents There was also an unsigned Mister When I see you got the fish of I decide to send everything back I have dealings with such fishes before and don't no part of when I count up the money I find 13 dollars i know when I'm said my account of the brass everything is turning out said my to ma it still from |
