| Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Two Stories of the Futures of Two People-A Girl Worried About a Man Did Not By BILLY ROSE Here are two both The first is as mean as a thumb in the eve- the as heartening as a The mean one is about a Philadelphia industrialist on one of his frequent business trips to New made the acquaintance of a young lady whose good looks were only surpassed by her Despite the fact that he was the tycoon began to see a lot of the and it wasn't long before he had set her up in a Madison avenue apartment and was forking over a week to cover After a couple of cozy and clandestine the girl said to him one something ever happens to I'll be left without a Don't you think you ought to do something about securing my am said Billy Rose the me a few days to work it The next time he called on the he handed her half a million dollars worth of 3 per cent railroad will yield you an Income of 15 thousand a he three months as the coupons come clip them and I'll cash them in for and you can use the money for notice I haven't put your name on the that's because the transfer of so large a sum would come to the attention of the board of directors and cause a lot of if anything happens to you can write your name in and sell the whole lot at any brokerage The girl thanked and the pair continued seeing each other until the tycoon keeled over in his Philadelphia office a couple of years later with an attack of coronary When his lady friend read the obituary in the she wrote her name on the bonds and took them to the brokerage The broker examined the a little he railroad went out of existence almost 30 years The girl picked up the worthless paper and walked dirty she he gave me was the same three hundred a AND NOW let me take the thumb out of your eye and show you the Some years an Iowa garage-man went bankrupt and decided to make a fresh start in another He scraped together a little loaded his wife and kids into a beat-up Chevrolet and headed for the jalopy broke down outside of Tucson and the cost of getting it fixed cleaned him To get a little eating he set out to canvass the garages in town for a Job but quickly found the supply of local labor was greater than the demand because of its was filled with tuberculosis a good many of whom were At the last garage on bis he repeated his hard-luck story and got the standard but as be started to walk out he was stopped by one of the you need a job as bad as you he can have I'm pretty sure I can fix it with the you need the job said the man from saved enough to last me for six said the the doctor who's treating me for TB says that's all I figure to |
