Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-22

MIR. PICKERING cause he hac
learned not 10 expect much.
1t happened, though, that in
the city where these two
waits lived, one Of the thea
ters gave a free show each
Christmas time, and the chill
dren from the various insti-
tutions were taken there IN
busloads.
= The little boy always
watched the faces of the
people he saw, because he
might, just might, see his
brother somewhere.
SO long as this Is lust a
story that we're making up
as we go along. we might as
well pretend that IN the crowd
in the lobby the waif sees the
face for which he always
searches. He sees his brother!
He begins TO cry. Somebody
sees the tears and asks:
"Whats the matter, sonny"
Z Sonny says:
That's my brother over
there, and I wish l could sit
p with him. We're from differ
ent erphanages. but wish We
could sit together, just for the
show" -'-'
So that's the waits Christ
mas present, because they let
hun sit with his brother.
- But that's not all Well
pretend that when the people
f.. realized how much ne missed
his brother. they arranged 10
let the iTrrte boys spend
Christmas together.
And such a little thing as
that made them happy. Made
them happier than you ever
know. Because | guess that's
the best Christmas present
YOU can have. 10 be With
someone you love.
II you've read this column
very often in the past. you've
probably guessed that this
isn't n rnade-up story. It's
true.
II happened at the Palms
state Theater Just year ago,
and l picked today 10 tell
about IL because today IL the
date of this years Christmas
show at the Palms State.
Mrs. y. -. Sutherland Of the
Federated Women's Clubs, and
Alice Gorham of United De-
troit Theaters, persuaded the
theater TO start giving the
shows about five years ago.
At II o'clock this morning
you'll see n fleet Of buses UNI
loading about a thousand
youngsters, and there'll he an
other housand tomorrow.
Somewhere among all those
\ kids suppose there will he
another Christmas story. At
, least. I'm enough Of senti-
mentalist TO hope that things
like that keep on happening
In this city of ours.
WARNING: Just so some
body else doesn't catch you
off guard. here's the pun that
Walter Stevenson overheard
on a bus about the Indian
named S ortCake When
Shortcake died Squaw-Bury-
ShortCake. Your supposed
10 die laughing
NIGHT NOTES: I didn't
know till now that Giles
kavsnagh wrote the words 10
IVY Michigan" the states Of
fetal song. And that Eddie
schultz did the arranging,
and man named O'Reilly
wrote the music.
lin fact. I still think that
the music was lifted from MY
Maryland" and I don't know
where they lifted II from he
fore that Anyway, kavanagh
saw Schultz at the Club
Royale where Eddie plays
piano for Skeeter Palmer, and
promised TO have n copy Of
the song sent to schultz who
never has had printed copy
of his own arrangement of the
song.
Just 70 keep the record
-lear-the boobs who insulted
Joe Reichman az the Book
Casino were the dancers who
used 10 be at the Statlcr Ter
race Room, They aren't there
any longer because Enric
Madriguera fired them when
he heard what had happened.
n Allen Drew'S gag:
"My girls so homely that
when she gets drunk-the
snakes see her."
There's lift in watching
PegleG Bates dance at the
Club Congo. not so much be-
cause of the novelty of seeing
a man with a peg leg dance,
but because he had the cour-
age 10 whip such a handicap.
He lost his left leg in an auto
accident when he was l.. II
took him eight years 10 learn
TO dance we'll enough 10 earn
anything as an entertainer.
And he's amazing now.