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Show By L. L. STEVENSON Evidence: A stubby, stolid-faced Oriental sitting alone in a downtown-bound downtown-bound Broadway street car, caused considerable speculation among other oth-er passengers because of inability to determine whether he was a Chinese Chi-nese or a Jap. A little girl, who with a man, evidently her father, sitting a little farther back, was not at all interested in knowing whether he was friend or enemy since her attention was centered on a brightly colored toy balloon which she allowed al-lowed to fly here and there. Several Sev-eral times, her father, speaking in a low voice, warned her that she might be annoying those about her, but the child continued her play, with a loud pop. The Oriental not only all but jumped out of his seat but glared at fellow passengers who laughed. And so there was a general gen-eral opinion that he wasn't Chinese. Doing Ills Bit: Michael Calabreese if a taxlcab driver. His earnings average $25 a week with which he supports not only himself and his wife Tessie but also his two sons, Peter, nine years old, and Joseph, two. Six months ago, a passenger gave him a $5 bill in mistake for a one. When Calabreese discovered the error, he couldn't find the passenger pas-senger so he turned $4 over to the police. No claimants having appeared ap-peared in the time set by law, he went to headquarters and was given the money. He didn't take it home, however. A young woman was collecting col-lecting for the Red Cross and without with-out hesitation, Calabreese thrust the $4 into the box. He admitted to police officers he could have used the money, but to give it to the Red Cross seemed "the right thing to do." Repartee: Another Broadway trolley trol-ley incident concerns a very fussy woman in a hurry to get to her destination. des-tination. The car, proceeding along in the morning downtown rush, seemed to make just about the average aver-age speed which isn't fast or steady, but taking everything into consideration, consid-eration, is about the best that can be accomplished. The woman, instead in-stead of sitting quietly, kept picking pick-ing at the motorman and Anally, Just before getting off at Fifty-ninth street to take a crosstown car, accused ac-cused him of deliberately making her late to work. "I'm sorry, madam," returned the man at the control, "I can't do anything any-thing about it today, but if you come back tomorrow morning, I'll put wings on the car." Different: New York's first "blackout "black-out marriage" took place in the Venetian lounge of the Hotel Forrest. For-rest. Blackout curtains were Installed In-stalled and all lights were dimmed while air raid sirens were simulated simu-lated by turning the radio on full blast. It seems that the novel ceremony cere-mony was merely a whim of the bride, and the Hotel Forrest had been selected because she lives in Forest Hills. But there were no further fur-ther revelations to identity of bride, bridegroom and wedding guests so possibly it wasn't merely a publicity stunt. Faith Restored: Lotte Lchmann, soprano, was selling defense stamps in one of New York's large department depart-ment stores recently and in the crowd was a small, meek-looking woman who waited her turn to make a purchase very impatiently. Wnen she reached the table, her face flushed with excitement and she burst out, "Oh, Madame Lehmann, I'm so glad I heard your last concertit con-certit was such a worth-while experience." ex-perience." She paused a moment, then went on, "You know, I was beginning to get worried about you. Your concerts before were such disappointmentsbut dis-appointmentsbut your last one restored re-stored my faith in you." And that li Madame Lehmann'i current favorite story about herself. Canned: Police of Manhasset, L. I. rushed to a house in which neighbors neigh-bors the other afternoon heard sounds of a gun fight and struggle. The officers sirened their way to the front door, forced their way in and, to their amazement, found, instead in-stead of a raging battle, merely a peaceful family scene. It seems that Jay Jostyn and his wife had been listening to a recording of the radio program in which Jostyn plays the title role and the neighbors had mistaken mis-taken the canned revolver fire for the real thing. (BeU Syndicate WNU Servkt.) |