The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-30
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, Jan. 30.-Broadway has just heard the last of l'affaire Mile. Eleanor Powell. If you sew Broadway Melody of leS0," you will recall the Powell girl as the personality kid who danced off with the film. Until Q week ago, she had been the shining satellite of the Rialto's hit tune show, "At Home Abroad" along with Beatrice Liliie. Then 1t was announced one evening that Miss Powell was on the sick -iist; that she could not appear; that she was to be removed, nerve- shattered, to Q sanitorium in Crestwood. That was when the ruckus began, reverberating in public prints and by grapevine route, through Times Square.
 First there was the doctors de lemma. Miss Powell's doctor wanted the world to know that Miss Powell was on the brink oi 6 nervous breakdown and that she was in need of rest and quiet, But the Shuberts who own At Home Abroad" couldn't believe 1t. So dubious were they that they sent their own physician along to Miss Poweli's bedside. The patient he said, was not in grave danger: the Lady with the rythmic Tap- Tap.Tap, he diagnosed, was just tired-and, he intimated, the show could safely have her back the following Monday night. The war waged for c morning about the medical reports and then new suspicious rose.
 Much Ado About Nothing
 Miss Powel, the wags said, was dissa tisfed with her billing in At Home Abroad" discontented with her colleagues, disgusted with Bea- trice Lillie, Ethel Walters and the other stars. There were tales of backstage jealousies, backstage spata and one of these narratives found It's way into the theatrical columns. Broadway's elders shook their shaggy heads and siaoaned about the usually ebullient Eleanor's swelled head; adding what Q pity 1t was that the young lady had gone, all but unknown, to Holly wood and returned Q squawking, squeaking prirna donna.
 Well. Miss Powell who is lovely to look at and Q sight to watch when she is dancing, wrote finis to this from her sick-bed, the other afternoon. To the Shuberts Beatrice Lillie, Ethel Waters and everybody else in "At Home Abroad" she addressed wordy telegrams, describing her adora- ton for all of them and cancelline all r,ifncrs to the contrary. And as added proof of the blissful se- renity that exists backstage, of the musical show, "Bea" .Lillie, as she IS known to those who don't cal her Lady Peel, took the sick Flea nor's place in Q coast-to-coast broadcast. + V.
 Thus settled down another Broadway tempest in teapot.
 She Likes Movies
 HI, there, Brother Paul Harri- sonl Inform those picture people that their greatest movie fan ir New York is Mrs. William Just Elliott, and that she is equally fond of all of them. Mrs. Elliott, a Man. haitian resident, first became undis- puted champion movie fan of this town when she saw -Four Horse men" back. in the silent days, fifteen times. No taIlEie has even induced her to break that record. At any rate, Mrs. Elliott has never vel missed an opening screen perform ance at the Radio City Music hall since the place opened in 1882 and she gets around to the other films daily.
 Mrs. Elliott pledges her allegi- ance to the Radio City Music Hall for excellent reasons. She's been such a steady customer that the manager now lets her in for the preyiew of the show in the morn. ing. # she likes 1t, she pays ur l ct the box ofElce and stays ail day lOtherwise. No Sale.
 NO star, incidentally. has ever been asked to send AGrs. Elliott s photo or autograph. She collecti them but always applies to the film cosnpany for them because ske is opposed to bothering the stars who. she believes, are sufa- clently annoyed.
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