| Show lights of new york to TRUMBULL as by WALTER A well known new york newspaper woman who lived on perry street owns a cat by the name of mollie perry street Is a a homelike neighborhood and mollie roamed at large known and liked by all frequently she would go out walking in the evening and return escorted by two or three gentlemen friends but recently the newspaper woman and her family moved uptown not only that but they moved to a fifteenth floor apartment where there was a doorman and elevator boys in uniform the old carefree care free atmosphere mo sphere was left behind mollie moped the new surroundings did not suit her at all there were none of her race with whom to exchange gossiping she had bad risen fifteen floors above her former admirers but once a flirt always a flirt the other day mollies Mol Mo lles Illes mistress found her perched on the sill of the open living ro room om window five stories below in another window sat a large gentleman cat singing to mollie in a throaty yowl a perfect troubadour mollie was giving him one of those looks for the first time since occupying her new quarters she appeared to be contented again many of those now prominent in the theatrical and moving picture world did other things before taking up their arese prese present at occupations amock new york p producers ro dubers tor for example george cohan was once a boy violinist sam harris before he managed terry mcgovern ran a laundry morris guest was a ticket speculator bill brady was a manager of pugilists winchell smith the playwright was a grain salesman at al wood was in the spectacle business charles Dil ham was a hotel clerk and a boxer joe and nick schenck were druggists the captain of bellboys in a big florida hotel has aspirations as a dramatist his name Is henry trueheart which would appear to be a good name for his bis hero at any rate every time john golden goes south henry has new ideas for a play he tells them all to mr got golden who it henry ever writes the play undoubtedly should be his producer one of the extremely few inhabitants of andros that island of the western bahamas where fla still are found in large flocks Is percy cavall a perfect type of the gentleman of fortune he has been all over the world but came originally from australla australia his brother tom cavill was a swimming champion and Is credited with being the originator of the australian crawl stroke they tell me it was known originally as the cavill stroke dark clark griffith owner of the washington baseball club told me that sam west of rule texas not only was his best outfielder but one of the best he had ever seen texas appears to be a state which turns out good outfielders witness tor for instance mr trio speaker As a matter of fact texas appears to turn out major league players for all positions there Is rogers hornsby from winters gus mancuso f from rom galveston george watkins from palestine art whitney from san antonio lloyd brown from beeville pat caraway from gordon tex carleton from comanche sam gray from van alstine Alst lne fred marberry from streetman and several more tex tes rickard always used to take pleasure in recounting to me the number of athletes texas had produced 0 1032 19 3 bell ell syndicate service |
