Show lights by bv L L L LS Sr EVENSON turtle tale in the rear of the players club which was once the I 1 home of the great actor edwin booth down by gramercy park la is a small courtyard one tree and a fountain in the bowl ot of which dwelt a little turtle an english author residing temporarily at the club noted the interest ot of the members in the turtle going to fulton fish market he bought a slightly larger turtle marked exactly the same and put it in the fountain in place of the little one he continued to do I 1 this at regular intervals until the once miniature turtle was of considerable sid erable size excitement in the club over the turtles growth was such that members did a lot of reading upon the subject of turtles then the prankster who had kept the succession of turtles in h his is room began to slowly replace them with the result that by degrees the big turtle shrank into its original size further my informant mayeth not precise the seven year old son of a professor of physics at princeton is of course accustomed to listening bening to discussions involving terms associated with the subject his father teaches recently th the 2 uncle of the lad took him f fishing all went well and they had a fine time until they ran into a swarm of gnats the insects attacked the boy so fiercely that soon he was screaming with pain unable to aid him the uncle took the howling youngster home and suggested that he immediately plunge into a hot bath the boy obeyed for some time the crying continued then it eased oft off to an occasional sob when the sobs ceased the uncle greatly relieved went to the door of the bath room and inquired as to how his nephew was feeling back came the reply on a scale of im 10 per cent better luck A young woman who hailed a taxi tax in midtown asked the driver if he could change a 50 bill which was all the money she had with her naturally the driver could not the girl then asked him to take her to a street dress shop since she was known there and was sure she could obtain change the driver let the girl out at the shop and drove on a little way to a parking space hardly had he stopped than the girl ran from the shop and informed him that she had lost her 50 the driver searched ched the cab then walked back to where the girl had got out there in a little wind eddy a piece of green paper was being whirled about how many pedestrians dest rians had passed that 50 bill without seeing it is of course impossible to compute its needless to add that the girl was overjoyed jat at recovering her money and the taxi driver do badly either teacher reports one of our hollywood scouts on her many overseas jaunts frances langford has been treated royally by every general she has met including eisenhower patton and doolittle however on her recent south se seas as trip she was nearly floored by the reception given her by supposedly austere gen robert L eichel berger once commandant of west point miss langford Lang tord first met gen Elch eichelberger elberger at gen douglas mac arthurs headquarters and gen eichelberger insisted that she go to dinner with him that night during the meal he amazed her by the way he sprinkled his bis conversation with liberal bits of show bus business slang general asked frances how did you learn so much aut about show business 1 I guess you might call ma marjorie rambeau my tutor replied the general ashes my sister in law lan |