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Show Lights of New York move, due to the fact that the quarters quar-ters donated to the club were rented, nobody felt worse about it than Louise Carver Duthie. Louise had been brought into the dinner club by an actor who recognized her as another member of the unemployed. George Duthie, the actor who is in charge of the pantry stock, put the rescuer to work as a bus boy arid struck by her wistful glance, adopted Louise, even giving her his last name. So for some time past Louise has been living in the storeroom, absorbing an atmosphere atmos-phere of drama and canned goods, and getting a general stage education. Any time that a New York producer has a milk fed role for a black and white kitten, she will be ready. . 1933. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. There was a crooner In New York long before any of the recent crop but he didn't use a microphone or a megaphone. As a matter of fact, when I first heard him do his stuff, the radio was not very well known. It was just one of those new fangled miracles of science. The only property prop-erty the crooner of whom I am speaking used was a straight-backed chair. He used to tip that against the wall, almost close bis eyes, and then do his stuff. Usually he might be found in The Players and, if he felt in the mood to entertain, although I think he entertained himself as well as others, there was always a group around him. When he wished, he could sing loud and true, in a full Irish voice, but it was best when he threw his head back, lowered his lashes on his cheeks, and crooned sad songs in that sort of husky, heart-searching whisper. They tell me that Joe Kerrigan Kerri-gan is in Hollywood now and doing well. He should, because he is a fine actor; but I'd like to hear him singing sing-ing those songs to himself again. There are a lot of good newspaper men who are out of jobs in New York today, but one of them got a break. He knew a judge who appointed him receiver for a restaurant, which had failed. When the newspaper man took charge, he couldn't understand the failure, as the place appeared to be doing a good business. He was used to digging up stories, so he set himself him-self to digging up the trouble. He found that most of the employees we're making all the money. Dining room and kitchen force each had its method of graft. The new manager got new help, put In a different system, and created what looks like a permanent job for himself. The dignity of a young army officer was seriously injured when he climbed recently to the top of a Fifth avenue bus. As he made his way forward in the aisle, a near-sighted old lady took Mm for the conductor and han led him her dime. One of the men who sell flowers from a wagon decided to try another locality, but the horse had other ideas, propped itself and refused to move. After trying vainly to reason with the balky animal, the owner decided to give it time to change its mind and stepped into an adjacent store to buy some tobacco. A policeman came along, followed the man inside, and threatened him with arrest. "You left your horse unhitched and it might run away and hurt somebody," he said. The man explained and wnnt out with the officer to prove that he was telling the truth. When last seen the two of them had made no impression on the liorse. Like David larum's famous animal, it demonstrated that It would stand without hitching. When in Florida last winter, I was told that the authorities were having considerable trouble with vandals and tramps who broke Into closed houses. Recently I was told of a man who had a method of insuring a Long Island shore bungalow against depredations, tlis system was to leave a five-dollar Tjill on a table with n note, which asked anyone breaking in to take the money and leave the place undisturbed. undis-turbed. In at least one instance, it worked. When the actor's dinner club had to |