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Show Grlffo Gets Religion. "Dowling's" burned out on TimeB square the other night, and those who for years had occupied rooms above the famous old billiard hall werf forced to run for their lives In what r raiment they happened to be wearing I at that nocturnal moment. Among J them was Kid Griffo, who was at one time a fighter and is today the best , piano player between midnight and one o'cfock in ali uptown music hall. "I did a nut trick," Griffo Is quoted as saying. "I took two nights of stairs in two jumps, wi' the fire bitin' at me. If I'd been left at the post you coulda buried me in a fryin' pan." "And what did you get?" asked his friend. "On them stairs," said Mr. Griffo, "I gets a pair of singed hands and religion." |