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Show U J t : lsfcsk J Little Known Stories About If ell-Known People: His contemporaries thought Teddy Ted-dy Roosevelt was conceited. They told this one on him. That Teddy died and went to heaven where he discovered the famed choir had been disbanded. He told St. Peter it should be reorganized and that he, Teddy, would conduct. "Very well," said The Old Fellow. "How many tenors should we have?" Teddy suggested ten million tenors, ten-ors, as many baritones, etc. "How many bass singers?" asked St. Peter, pencil poised. "Oh," said Teddy, "I'll sing bass." FDR's guesting at the former Czarist Palace in Yalta brings to mind the yarn told about Teddy Roosevelt's world tour. . . . While in Stockholm he lived at the royal palace. pal-ace. When "Mr. Big-Stick" was asked by a newsman how he liked the sensation of living in a palace, Teddy snapped: "I don't like them. You can't ring a bell and complain about the room!" One of the staff offered his resignation res-ignation to the executive editor of the old New York World. He explained that he pas going to start his own little country newspaper. news-paper. "I'd like some advice from you," said the reporter, "on how you think I ought to run it." "You've come to the wrong person," said the exec. "Ask one of our indignant subscribers." When President Roosevelt was Governor of New York a film salesman sales-man named Moe Schenck (he worked out of Albany) was introduced intro-duced 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 FDR came along. "Well!" well'd Mr. Roosevelt. "How are you, Moe, you old sunuva-gun sunuva-gun what are you doing in Washington?" Wash-ington?" Moe explained his mission briefly and started to go. FDR said: "Good luck, Moe. Don't be such a stranger. strang-er. Come see me sometime." "Mr. President," Moe intoned, "I'm a very busy man." At a social event which Thomas Thom-as Edison attended reluctantly at his wife's urging the inventor inven-tor finally escaped his admirers admir-ers to sit in a corner. A friend noticed that he kept looking at his watch and; drawing closer, he heard Edison sigh deeply and murmur: "If there were only a dog here." The home of Beethoven in Bonn has been converted into a memorial museum. In one of the rooms, roped 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 Moon-light Sonata. As she left she remarked re-marked to the attendant: "T Klin. pose all the great pianists who have come here at one time or another have played on it." The guard replied: "No, miss, not at all. Paderewski was here several 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, vou pan tell by biting them. Here, let me see." "Gladly," said Lady Peel, proffering prof-fering her jewels. "But remember. Duchess, you can't tell real pearls with false teeth." One of the important Washington Washing-ton newspapers once reported (on its front page) a mild indisposition in-disposition of President Roosevelt Roose-velt with: "President Kept to His Rooms by Coed." FDR heard of it and requested several copies, which he shows to visiting diplomatic bigwigs in their moments of relaxation. This is how one of the world's classics clas-sics was written: Nathaniel Hawthorne Haw-thorne worked as a bookkeeper. One day he was fired and came home depressed. But his wife wasn't. She told him that she had secretly saved money from household expenses so that he could one day afford to write the book he was planning That is how Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter." It's supposed to have happened at President Roosevelt's inauS cept on. A midwest plumbing manufacturer man-ufacturer who had supported toe Demo campaign fund brought his en-age daughter to the luncheon The young lady had been coached tor weeks on correct etiquette in company of all these big people. Ev erything went well until she was in-reduced in-reduced to FDR. She curtsied sliR ncaend"They S3ia WUh great dc'-ence dc'-ence This is a great honor, Mr President. I've heard father peak of you many times." |
