Show I s r Sc Little Known Stories About Well-Known Well People His Bis contemporaries thought Teddy Teddy Teddy Ted Ted- dy Roosevelt was conceited They told this one on him That Teddy died and went to heaven where he discovered the famed lamed choir had been disbanded He told St. St Peter it should be reorganized and that he Teddy would conduct Very well said The Old Fellow How many tenors should we ha have ve Teddy suggested ten million tenors tenors tenors ten ten- ors as many baritones etc How many bass singers asked St. St Peter pencil poised Ill sing bass Oh said Teddy at the former I Czarist Palace in Yalta brings to mind the yarn told about Teddy I Roosevelt's world tour While in Stockholm he lived at the royal pal pal- Stick Big was ace When Mr asked by a newsman how he liked the sensation of living in a palace Teddy snapped I dont don't like them You cant can't ring a bell and complain about the room One of the staff offered his rests resignation resignation res res- ts ignation to the executive editor of the old New York World He De e. e explained that he was going to start his own little paper Id like some advice from you said th the reporter on how you think I ought to run it iL Youve come to the wrong person said the exec Ask one of f our indignant l ers When President Roosevelt was Governor of New York a film salesman salesman salesman sales sales- man named Moe Schenck he worked out of Albany was introduced introduced introduced intro intro- to him The other day Moe was in the White House to see one of the secretaries about a film As he came out of the office came along Well Mr Roosevelt How are you Moe you old gun what gun what are you doing in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Moe explained his mission briefly and started to go said Good Goodluck Goodluck Goodluck luck Moe Dont Don't be such a strang strang- er Come see me sometime Mr President Moe intoned Im a very busy man At a social event which Thomas Thom Thom- as Edison attended reluctantly at his bis wife's urging urging the the inventor inventor tor finally escaped his admirers ers to sit in a corner A friend noticed that he kept looking at athis athis athis his watch and drawing closer he be heard Edison sigh deeply and murmur If H there were only a dog here The home of Beethoven in Bonn has been converted into a memorial I IJ museum In one of the rooms roped tk J off from curious hands is the piano upon which Beethoven composed most of his famous music A very snooty girl visited the shrine with a party of American tourists She looked at the piano with awe and asked the guard if she might play just a few notes on it She sat down and played a few bars of the Moonlight Moonlight Moonlight Moon Moon- light Sonata As she left she re remarked remarked remarked re- re marked to the attendant I uI suppose suppose suppose sup sup- pose all the great pianists who have come here at one time or another have played on it The guard replied No uNo miss not at all was wa's was here several several several sev sev- eral years ago but said he wasn't worthy to touch it At a dinner party Bea Lillie Lady Peel in private life was wearing the family pearls A feline meowed What lovely pearls Bea Are they genuine Of course you can always tell by biting them Here let me see Gladly said Lady Peel proffering proffering proffering prof prof- fering her jewels But remember Duchess you cant can't tell real pearls with false teeth One of the important Washington Washing Washing- 4 i ton newspapers once reported on an its front page a mild indisposition indisposition indisposition in in- disposition of President Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt with President Kept to His Rooms by Coed heard of it and requested several copies which he shows to visiting diplomatic bigwigs in It t their moments of relaxation This is how one of the worlds world's classics classics clas clas- f was written Nathaniel Hawthorne Hawthorne Hawthorne Haw Haw- thorne worked as as a bookkeeper One day he was fired and came home 0 depressed depress a. a But his wife She told him that she had secretly saved money from household expenses so i. i that he could one day afford to write the book he was planning That is how Hawthorne wrote The uThe Scarlet Letter y t. t Its It's supposed to have happened at President Roosevelt's inaugural re- re A midwest plumbing manufacturer manufacturer manufacturer man man- who had supported the Demo campaign fund brought his teen-age teen daug daughter ter to the luncheon The young lady had been coached for weeks on correct etiquette in company of all these big people Everything Ev Ev- went well until she was introduced introduced in in- f to She curtsied slightly slight slight- ly iy and they said with great deference deference deference defer defer- ence This is a great honor Mr President Ive I've heard father speak i of you many times I |