Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET wise boys learn impossible sometimes Some tima can canh happen appen by BILLY ROSE lost last night at landys a bunch of us were discussing what for want of a better term ill call the inevitability of the impossible the most improbable yarn I 1 ever heard said deems taylor is the one about a missionary named renault who was captured in 1948 by A a tribe triba of canni balsin french equatorial Equator fal africa to a report the lies files out at the UN just as they were about to roast him over a ire kebob style the missionary teh fell to his knees and caked the lord to havo have me mercy rcy on hl hla i servant renault and when the cannibal chief heard board the name I 1 he untied hint him a and nd told old him to go about all his business no it t the prayer that did the tha trickie kIt seems seema that six months before they had cooked and eaten another gent named renault and he had turned out to be ba tough h and tasteless teless 1 1 I aej KNOW AN equally a t tory ory 1 I 1 I piped up the one about the clerk in tacoma washington who was handed banded five thousand dol alar lars to buy bur insurance for or a bridge that wa was u under del construction the fellow ha had d never a nickel in his life but this was one temptation he stand off what in the name of the five broth i ers could happen to a bridge suiting SuitS ns to thought lbs clerk went wen to reno and blew in me aholt liv s grand fraud on a couple ol of gh and d shoo 01 fht a tilsit alors bo bf was due dm to st start 40 vach ack the mayor major ol of tacoma phoned and ami wanted to know about the f jt Is seemed thai mal abo bridgit fhe famous camou gerale ol of the aws reels had corns come apart at I 1 seams and allin into sho g sors ors 11 THE BELIEVE IT oll NOT that tops them all la Is the one about charles coghlan said Eli eugene geile burr who iwate the theatre pieces for playbill J i charier who I 1 asked coghlan larf sold said burr ue the actor who used to play opposite lily langtry back in i th last century when he was SO 60 he bought hirn a form farm on prince edward island in the guu gulf of st lawrence and quit the stage for what he thought though was good izod A few years later however forbes him avery a very ery attractive offer to play Mer cutlo 1 1 in a touring production ot of romeo and juliet and while coghlan i hated to havethe ka lea isla island fid he afford to turn the offer down in one season an hed earn enough to beable be able to live comfortably the rest of his life when his neighbors came down to the boat to see himoff him off the actor assured them that come heaven or high water hed return when his tour was enda ended and he did bai but it tool took both heaven and high water and in n that thai order to io arrange it heaven got into the be act shortly slier after the ab far ur started aa f heart attack and died ond end woj was hurled buried sin a d cemetery ebery POO fiot far ar from the met sit sea the high iafet iam fame a year later september 8 1900 whets when a tidal wave hit hi galveston drol drowned vald so six ix thousand people and washed dway away a good food part parit of ibs waterfront include including 1 9 molt most of 01 the h coffins in the aft cere n 8 iry iffy some months after the disaster a fisherman on prince edward island went down to lo the beach one morning mornin if to inspect his nets and found a coffin which had washed up on the ahe sands on it was a brass plate with the name charles lanthe actor with en an assist from the gulf stream had made good bis his promise to fe return ww ya T |