Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET ibsen she said va confide with me everything by BILLY ROSE I 1 recently read a magazine map azine piece entitled wrong with modern marriage in which the author opened opined that the divorce rate would drop like an over overripe ripe apple it if the average wife showed more interest in her husbands business and hobbles hobbies well debbe so but you cant prove it by my unc uncle ae charlie and my aunt frieda charlie and frieda are e a couple of oldsters who have been ifil living ngin in a four room flat on the east side almost as long as magazines have been printing articles entitled wrong with modern marriage ever since their nuptials had atlease at least one argument a day and when they stop scrapping when ill start worrying about them I 1 remember an evening back in the days when I 1 was knee high to the allen alien street curbstone when aunt frieda came home from the movies with an airoff air of unwavering nobility charlie she said tensely how Is business at the shop good bad or fair to the iho middle middie eh 11 answered my uncle 1 eh aeh I 1 A hasten to translate means that things I 1 being what they are if a man breaks even he can consider himself a billy rose runaway success en eh pen Js is no answer said frieda I 1 1 I am sick nick of 0 living in adoll a dolls house shouse 1 11 I 1 see said cold charlie 1 tonight in the nickelodeon was wa showing nazimova in A dolls house by hemle ibsen ibsen asen said frieda you cant push me out of your sotir life confide in me everything come thick or thin this ill confide sold AU Ch Char drUs lif when I 1 I 1 corns come home irom from th shop im tired out aliks a dog bad brough I 1 live through 17 rough ahoi day without it should rep repeat on me like however with my aunt frieda like eke columbus there was no turn ing back she kept picking away until charlie itemized the days doings everything very thing from punch in to pun punch lout out p BUT THAT WAS only the begin ning tho the payoff came a few weeks later when charlie was fixing to attend tend his weekly pinochle session 1 I wa want nt you should teach mi me ho how to play 01 said Frieda Pinoch let said charlie al ways you are saying pinochle Is for loafers and no goods 1 I aint saying different sold said frieda but pinochle Is your passion and I 1 dont want it should take my place in your life now my uncle was a broadminded man when women began to bob their hair his comment was they want to ventilate thelt their necks so lets let them but pinochle well that was another matter nevertheless ho he knew better than to balthis balk his wife outright and as he explained the game to frieda all the while thinking bitterly of the coffeehouse session he was missing a plot began to hatch in his head 1 next evening he ha was home early with a bag of wool and knitting needles frieda he said how you make maka a cable stitch half an hour later he was in the kitchen tasting the soup it needs a pinch paprika he said youre giving me ma point outs how to make soup chos teaching A woman cooks and shops a husband should similar cook and shop shoo how much you pay for cabbage tive five cents abbad a head at on avenue A Is tour four c cents 10 I 1 0 0 FRIEDA DROPPED a handful fiand fulk of cutlery in tha sink 1 I Is six blocks away 11 so what the exercise will do you good thai saturday night flight chaffis ahm lh persuaded a couple of his cronies to io come over for is a linoz pinochle ses sei siou and W put pul up with his cifes ae plains at 12 frieda said 1 I cant cans keep my eyes apart alay maybe s you could play three handed what kind tin pinochle ochle player stops top so early said charlis charlie deall anil and at as 3 am frieda was dealing ahem as if they wore wan bricks sunday charlie put on his best tie today I 1 go with you to see theda bara hebald he said sald Is not necessary to go with said frieda 1 I got a date with the ladies where you go I 1 go said charlie i k frieda afraid charlie would laugh at thedas amatory exercises and humiliate hum her in front of her friends pulled down the flag marriage Is not simple a ball and chain she said you go your way and ill go to Loews charlie moved in for the kill no more sch moose about the shop if no more cable allt stitches ches 11 no more pinochle it if no more tasting the soup you got an agreement said my uncle and been fighting happl ly ever since |