The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-18
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 New York.-Manhattan mean derinEs: One of the first things Barbara Hutton and her Prince Mdivani did when they came to town was attend the sassy revue called GAS Thousands Cheer" in which their romance is satirized. Clifton webb and Marilyn Miller. who impersonate them, were nerv- | ous about the uncomplimentary slxit--until they received a nice lit- tie note from the Woolworth heir ess.
 With fan dances in night clubs all the way from Harlem to Green wich Village, and in all degrees of daring, there now has been con- cocted a play called "The Fan Dancer," which may star Sally
 People who remember the ur- l bane Jimmy Walkers residence | they go to visit Mayor-elect La Guardia and his wife up at their modest apartment at One Hun dred and Ninth street. The fur nishings are comfortable, but old | fashioned, and it's Fiorello him. self who bustles around with the tea and sandwiches. Says it's a good enough establishment, and | that he doesn't intend to move .. Meanwhile Joseph Mckee, who also ran, is by way of becoming New York's Forgotten Man. At tended the Horse Show the other night, sat in a front box, and was not even recognized by one in a T I AG kA1 Avu
  Actor Businessman
 If show business goes bad, Will liam Gaxton,a star of Let lem Eat Cake" has a perfume business to his wife used, so last year he bought the formula in Paris and opened a New York factory And with the contract bridge busi- ness being what it is, four promi- nent eastern players are going into a show. David Burnstine, Mich ael T. Gottlieb, Oswald Jacoby and Howard Schenken comprise a team of four who'll tour the coun- 1 try meeting all corners. The audi ences will hear the bidding, am | plified by loud speakers, and will see the play by means of a new projection device.
 Rumors persists that Jimmy
 Walker is to become the
 American representative of a
 group of foreign wine con Veterans of BurIesque
 The recent paragraph about the old-time burlesque queen who sells newspapers at night on Broadway has brought some in formation about three other vet erans of the gay-way. The eldest is Mother Films, who is 95, snowy, haired and spryer than you could imagine. She was a burlesque queen, too, and was known as Annie Hart in the days when such shows were the equivalent of modern musical comedy.
 Mother Films is loyal to her old calling, though, and still
 visits backstage at the burly- que houses. Likes to tell the
 performers how she used to
 sing: 'I've often been a.
 bridesmaid, but long to be
 a bride = with a wreath of
 orange blossoms and my
 Chosen at my side. ."
 Then there's Lettte Ford, S6, who used to appear with Edwin Booth a half-century and more ago. Her family, by the way, owned the Ford theater in Wash ington where Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, brother of Edwin. She still acts now and then, but mostly poses for com mercial photographers. Hers is the face of one of those sweet old ladies you often see in the ads. She's an avid theater and movie fan, and refuses to go to bed be- fore midnight. ..
 Lizzie Mccall is shy about her age. but admits having played with Booth, Lawrence Barrett, an- other great Shakespearean, the late Edward Sothern, and James O'Neill, father of Eugene. She hasn't a role right now, but plans to stay with the stage for many years to come.