Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-18

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and said she
would buy
some.
6 n c
called the box
office at the 1a&I1llI1llIlIl
Nationai and MR.. PiChhniSS
found the ticket seller 10 be
quite a conversational gent. A
gent, / might add, in every
sense Of the word.
How old would the winners
be? Oh, fairly young. she said.
All right, he'd suggest seats
pretty well down toward the
'footlights. And. had she ever
been TO a burleSque show? No?
Well, she should see one. lie
was sure she'd enjoy it.
Casting around for an excuse,
Mrs. T. said oh, no. she wouldn't
want 20 20. because she would
he jealous of the girls on the
stage.
THAT'S all right" said the
Gent. "You come right along
down, and IL you look like any
thing at all, well put You right
up there i'm the chorus line. III
YOU look like anything at ALL"
Next afternoon she went down
for the tickets Can you imag-
ine?" she told us afterward.
"All those men going into the
burlesque show, at 2 o'clock in
the afternoon, Some of them
whistled at me, too. And the
same man in the box office was
there. He was 45-ish, with a
CLINT an his eye, and remembered
the phone call. and still wanted
me to see a show. But ] didn't.
Only when Twas leaving he said,
Remember what / said on the
telephone! Meant every word
of it,"
Mrs. T. still hasn't been to the
burlesque, but she tells the story
with such Zest that we suspect
that no lady, no matter how
ladylike, isn't secretly fiattered
If the Gent in the boxoffice
thinks she's got what il takes
10 get in the chorus.
ROWING: The officers of the
Essex Scottish across the. river
In Windsor are quite set up over
their latest acquisition. Val Clare
invited ms up for a drink, and
showed us the documents, pic
lures and souvenirs In the off,
GERS mess.
ANY British organization n, of
course, much more devoted to
Its traditions than we are, and
that's why they were SO glad To
regain possession of n pair Of
magnificent bronze candelabra
which are connected with tho
regiment.
Fifty years ago the candelabra
were presented to one OF the
retiring commanding officers. He
took them home, and they dis
appeared eventually. He's been
dead many years.
The manner Of finding the
candelabra was what struck
everybody as n coincidence. The
Red Cross was collecting scrap
metal TO he used for war pur-
poses, and candelabra were rec
ognized, rescued and turned over
20 Col. Alan &. Prince, v. d.,
A. ID. C., just before they would
have been shipped of to smell
ter somewhere.
Day before yesterday they
were put back I'm the room where
the trophies are kept. On the
wall next to the plaque which
has had a light burning over 1t
night and day ever since the
1918 Armistice.
JIMMY McCLAIN has just
been in town-Jimmy McClain
being the DIR. 1. O." of the
radio. He was here TO arrange
for his return appearance at the
Fox T'heater, starting at the end
OF this month.
He was here six weeks last
year, and gives us word that
Detroit rates well above average
in giving the correct answers
Detroit got 81 per cent, and the
national average is only 81.
Boston is at the top with rs.
Birmingham. Ala. pretty well
up with Il. and Dallas at the
bottom with 81. which botherS
DR.. /. O.. because Dallas is his
home town.
Detroit also has three winners
Of the "thought-twister' prizes,
\ g.bich is very good. only % hav-
ing~gon II in the country in
; three and a half years. Seattle's
the only other city with three
winners.
If you want tostry a thought
twister on your friends, here's
"A sample he gave US:
Lets dance a jig" said the
wolf 10 the pig.
Lets don't dance a jig, wolf"
10 him said the pig.
II you Gan repeat AZ right
after hearing il once, you're one
person in several thousand.
NOTES: First replies indicate
n lot OF interest In writing and
producing n show for the USO