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Coffee Dan's
• Ruby Adams — now "Mrs. Coffee Dan" — has a favorite song, "Laughing at Life." She sang it before a terrible accident occurred which crippled her for life; and she still sings it. Read of the romance of the gamest little sport in the world of radio and entertainment — Ruby Adams.
by
Cjaylord Wellington,
BUT a few short years ago the world paused and bowed at the feet of Ruby Adams, singer, vaudeville star and darling of the theatrical world. And then one night tragedy struck and the great Ruby Adams was the victim of a horrible prank of fate.
It was at a theatre in San Francisco — backstage. Ruby was waiting to go on when a three hundred pound sand bag fell from the rafters. Her back was broken.
But all that is old stuff. There is a new story in the life of Ruby Adams. A story of love and romance. The story of her marriage and the story of her success as a radio star. A success that makes her years on the stage a mere background. A success that has made of Ruby Adams one of the most beloved and admired artists of the ether.
• For months after the horror of that night in 'Frisco when a sand bag spoiled the hopes of a great career, Ruby lay on her back in a hospital. Then one day the doctor told her she would never walk again. A wheel
chair was ordered and the once famous stage star began to reconcile herself to the life of a recluse.
Ruby had a radio in her cosy apartment at the St. Francis. She would picture herself before the microphone and an infinite sadness would overcome her.
And then one day Mort Harris invited a few friends to listen in while he broadcast over KJBS. The party included Ruby Adams. It also included Coffee Dan — that is, Johnny Davis, the famous restauranteer. And right now would be a good time to put in a few words about Coffee Dan.
• Johnny Davis' father was the original Coffee Dan. He conducted a "coffee and sinker" place in one of the roughest districts of the old Barbary Coast. The great fire of 1906 wiped him out. But a few years later his son adopted the famous name and opened a cabaret in the theatrical district. It was a money maker from the go and soon became one of the most famous eating houses in the West.
It was in 1920 that Ruby and Coffee Dan first met. Dan started right by proposing at once. And for the next five years he was a regular suitor. But that, too, is an old story. Why all San Francisco, from the exclusive suburbs to the slums, knew about Dan and Ruby — knew that he was hopelessly in love with her and knew that she had time for nothing but her career as a singer and dancer.
And so they met at KJBS, after the years had passed and had left Ruby a hopeless cripple.
• Mort Harris went on. But first he introduced Ruby Adams to his listeners. She sat there in her wheelchair, the faint trace of a tear in her eye. It took Mort five minutes to prevail upon her to sing.
She sang, "Laughing at Life!"
Imagine that philosophy! Laughing at life — Ruby Adams, former stage beauty and queen of the cabaret
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