Evening star. [volume], August 14, 1947, Page B-14, Image 43

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After Dark
When a Girl Has a Problem,
a Man of Honor Must Act Now
By HARRY MacARTHUR.
The housing shortage has been re
sponsible for its share of troubles,
all right, but it also has been re
sponsible for as pretty a tale of le
beau gdste as ever you heard.
For a number of years there was a
bachelor about town who was eyed
covetously by one girl and another
when he paused for awhile in this or
that night club. He was a confirmed
bachelor, but the lassies never gave
up hope and each was sure she would
find the chink in the armor. Married
couples plied him with unwed female
relatives, the women because women
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are romantic and the men because
men are Jealous of bachelors.
No assault ever was successful,
though. He sailed blissfully on
through his bachelorhood, blithely
unaware that any serious attempt
ever was made to remove him from
it. His day came, however. It came
the day the girl he was seeing most
regularly at the time admitted that
she had a problem. She owned a
house and she wanted to live in it.
The trouble was that she couldn't
evict then current tenants because
she was single and not a family in
need of housing.
Well, there was nothing a man of
honor could do. Our hero could only
live by his code. He braced his
shoulders and married the girl. Be
ing half of a family then, she moved
into her house. Her husband often
gets up early at his apartment, we
understand, to go over and have
breakfast with her.
* * * *
Manager Bill Sheehan of the
Hamilton Hotel left a Rainbow
Room table the other night as the
others around it were starting din
ner. Half an hour later he was back,
looking cheerful.
“You look happy," some one told
him.
"Yep," he said. "Been having some
excitement around here. We Just
had a fire in one of the rooms on
the mezzanine. One of the bell boys
was too efficient, though. He had
It out before I could get up there ”
It reminded some one at the table
of the time Matt Windsor, the ami
able accordionist, was embarking on
one of his night club ventures by
opening the Volga Boatnupi, at No.
1 Thomas Circle. Being a man to
whom publicity is the plasma of life,
Matt invited every newspaperman
he could corral to his opening.
Night club reporters, accustomed
to such affairs, were joined on this
occasion by sports reporters, police
reporters, drama critics, political
columnists, photographers,/city edi
tors and possbily a few copy boys.
(There weren't any copy girls, then.)
They sat at Matt's tables, ordered
his top-grade sirloin steaks, washed
them down with his finest wines,
then rolled his rarest liqueurs on
their tongues as they enjoyed the
entertainment he provided.
After a lengthy absence, Matt ap
peared. His hair was mussed ahd
his face and once gleaming shirt
front were blackened with soot and
smoke.
“This is a fine thing!" he shouted
to a table laden with newspaper
people. “Here’s a legitimate news
story that would get the name of
this place on every front page in
town and you guys don’t do any
thing about it.”
“Stop sounding like an excitable
Russian, Matt,” said a friend. "What
is your trouble?”
“Trouble?” said Mr. W. "Trouble
enough. Fire wagons from all over
town have been screaming around
here. We’ve just had a two-alarm
fire in the kitchen and you fellows
don’t even notice it!”
“Oh, I did notice a couple of fire
men going through here carrying a
hose,” a sportswriter mused. “But I
don't get to these places very often
and I didn’t want to appear gauche
and point them out.”
* * * *
“See,” Mr. Sheehan was told. “You
mised a chance for publicity by not
telling us about your fire sooner.
Think of the headlines—'Bell Boy
Hero Saves Thousands in Fire at
Hamilton.’ ”
“In the first place,” said Mr. Shee
han, “it couldn’t possibly be thous
ands. You haven’t heard about the
hotel business these days, maybe.
We have rooms to rent, now. In the
second place, I’m not concerned over
the publicity, but over the insurance.
Maybe the insurance company won’t
admit there was a fire if I didn’t
have to turn in an alarm. Maybe
I should turn in an alarm now, just
to get it on the record.”
Told he'd better start another fire
before doing that, he decided against
it.
* * * *
Sue Milroy, the Madrillon's singer,
was on the telephone just now,
transacting some mysterious busi
ness with another part of the office.
We told her we had this much space
left, if she'd like to get her name in
the paper, but she couldn’t think of
a thing to say. The weather’s too
hot.
Purcell L. Smith Files
Suit for Divorce Here
Purcell L. Smith, whose residence
was given as the Metropolitan
Club, yesterday afternoon brought
suit for divorce from Mrs. Elizabeth
W. Smith of the Wardman Park
Hotel. 0
The petition, filed through At
torney Justin L. Edgerton, asks for
divorce on grounds of voluntary
separation. The suit said the couple
was married in Evanston, 111., in
March, 1929. It said they discon
tinued living as husband and wife
after a quarrel irf 1942, but that
they continued to maintain a home
because of their children.
In February of this year, how
ever, the petition said, the husband
moved because of "tension and
strife.”
The suit said he has been paying
Mrs. Smith for maintenance of her
self Ind three children, whose ages
are 17, 15 and 13.
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