Show lights of newyork new york by L L STEVENSON A big man is john J sheeny prin principal cipa I 1 keeper absing at sing sing prison who has been in the service of the hes 6 feet 2 state for 25 years inches tall and weighs pounds his hands are in keeping with his size and weight they have been compared to hams also to pile drivers As principal keeper shee hys duties are equivalent to those of chief of police of a small city but tic no police chief in a city small or large has to handle a population equivalent in toughness to that faich constitutes Shee hys I 1 s domain in those 25 years of service he has come into exceedingly close contact with more than criminals varying from petty thieves to men so desperate that they would stop at nothing bothin g 1 in all those years ears and with all tho those se associations he has never had to use a weapon perhaps the size of his fists has had something to do with that one of the duties of the principal keeper known through the prison as PK or dep is to start condemned men to the electric chair hates that task since he hates electrocutions yet he has traveled that last mile with more than persons held to be a worlds record but while leading men to their death is bad leading women along that short grim journey is is even worse yet that too is is a part of the duties of sing sings principal keeper in the last quarter of a century has walked the way of death with four women mrs ruth snyder mrs anna antonio mrs eva coo and mrs mar marv creighton the four had taken hj human lives nevertheless the giant flinched at the task the law said was his but went through with it turning to a more cheerful topic there is is roy moulton managing director of the hotel piccadilly who is is the unofficial postmaster of just about all the radio musicians of the country each week he receives hundreds of letters addressed in care of roy moulton and each one of these letters reaches its proper destination it started back in 1929 when mr moulton was manager of another new york hotel dan gold mt carmel pa a friend wrote that hat he would like to get in touch with a certain sox sax player and en closed a letter for himas moulton mo knows the whereabouts of hundreds of musicians the letter reached its destination destina ion the next day A broad way ltv columnist picked up P the e story and thus moulton became the musi ceans postmaster musicians having made their entrance there is kay kyser who has a record unique for these days of ot constant re shuffling of bandsmen bandsman bands men and singers half of his tion ion has been with him since kolege his col days davs and one of them sully mason KJ singer has been with him im 11 years e A having been the first m man hired by kyser his arranger george geo ee duning is another nal ards with almost as many years to hs his is credit he has done all kays kave arranging for five years previous to that he played a trumpet in the orchestra 4 0 next comes lucille manners who has discovered an autograph seeker who is willing to indulge in a bit of bribery to obtain a flock of signa lures of celebrities without personal contact the autograph hunter is a harlem la undress and her proposition was to do miss manners laundry free in exchange for five signa tures weekly of stage scree n and ra dio stars now billy house corpulent come dian who is also a song writer unable to play any musical instrument he writes his lyrics then de aises vises a tune to go with them by sass beating out a rhythm on a table top s and singing the words he repeats the tune until he S has memorized a it all the songs and verses he uses ses in his show are original and I 1 started with ws sing sing and end UP singing 0 bell service |