Show LIGI Rys M A LUR j of NEW YO YORK RIK there are no more charitable persons than those found in the theatrical profession they work six nights and a couple of matinees mati matin nees cesa a week and yet there Is scarcely an actor or actress who ever refuses to appear in ili a sunday night benefit and in new york these benefits are frequent most workers would be far less cheerful about giving up their day off it Is said that th the ambition of a british Is to die on the hunting field general march plays a lot of tennis and when a friend suggested it was pretty vigorous exercise he said he know any better mannar manner in which it a retired general could dl die e t than ban on the tennis court it seems to me that someone once wrote a book entitled generals die in bed the billy were dining at the village nut club with leroy ward marls marie de sylva and others as their guests the waster master of ceremonies pointed out celebrities who were present and asked each one to 16 stand up among others he introduced edmund lowe lillian and mrs seeman who formerly was phyllls phyllis haver when he had bad finished mr seeman rose he said he did not wish the dine diners rs to leave without meeting the i other members of his pa party arty 0 1 I am here to get the reflected glory when my wife Is introduced he hb said but I 1 dont want to take any advantage of buddy de silva this Is his wife stand up marle sport ward any wives of record but when he gets one I 1 want her to know that he be was not slighted this evening stand up sport one by one mr seeman beeman introduced his guests some of them take kindly to his efforts in their behalf but he says the world is full of ingratitude A man who came to the united states from abroad when he was eleven years old and settled in a small town was talking the other ether day of the history of depression the panic of 1895 helped me considerably he said 1 I was about twenty six and had worked tor for abood many years to save 1000 that was my entire capital I 1 decided to open a dry goods store when along came the panic well the man who owned the building where I 1 wished to open my store offered me three months rent free my boarding house gave me six months credit on my promise to pay I 1 could stretch my 1000 a long way in the purchase of goods I 1 opened the store with a total pay roll of 12 per week for or a couple of assistants who ordinarily would have cost me double that the hu business sIness prospered from the first I 1 figure said the man who now lg Is the wealthiest citizen of his town tant panic put me on my feet al A spanish music publisher says sas that his largest sales in spain consist of american jazz music he ele says that little else to Is played in the dafes and theaters 0 bell Zyndle syndicate ate service |