| Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STRICT Wise Boys Learn Impossible Sometimes Can Happen By BILLY ROSE Last night at Lindy's a bunch of us were discussing for want of a better I'll call the inevitability of the most improbable yarn I ever said Deems the one about a missionary named Renault who was captured In 1948 by a tribe of cannibals In French Equatorial to a report in the tiles out at the just as they 1 were about to roast him over a the mis- ary Ml to his knees and asked H 1 the to have I l mercy on his ser- Km And I when the canni- fail bal chief heard J 1 the he un- k tied him and told him to go about bis lt wasn't the prayer that did the trick it seems that six months they had cooked and eaten another gent named Renault and he had turned out to be tough and KNOW AN equally I piped one about the clerk In who was handed five thousand dol lars to buy insurance for a bridge that was under The fellow had never stolen a nickel In his but this was temptation he couldn't stand off what In the nam of the five Broth ers could happer to a misdeed to thi clerk went to Reno and blew in the whole five grand on a of and the night before he was due to start the Mayor of Tacoma phoned and wanted to know about the It seemed that the bridge the famous Galloping of the news-reels had come apart at the seams and fallen the www that tops them all Is the one about Charles said Eug ne Burr who writes the theatre pieces for 1 said actor who used to play opposite Lily Langtry back in last century When he was he bough himself a farm on Prince Edward island In the Gulf of St. Lawrence and quit the stage for what he thought was A few years Forbes-Robertson made him a very attractive offer to play in a touring production of and and while Coghlan hated to leave the he couldn't afford to turn the offer In one season earn enough to be able to live comfortably the rest of his his neighbors came down to the boat to see him the actor assured them come heaven or high he'd return when his tour was And he did but it took both heaven and high and In that to arrange got into the act shortly after the tour started in Galveston be suffered a heart attack and and was buried in a cemetery not far from the The high water came a year September H. when a tidal wave hit drowned six thousand people and washed away a good part of including most of the coffins in the months after the a fisherman on Edward Island went down to the beach one morning to his and found a coffin which had washed up on the It was a brass plate with the name the with an assist from the Gulf had made good bis promise to |
