The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-07
In New York

New York, March 7--The blurred bulletin merely said: Mary Nolan has been added to the current floor show at the queens Terrace, Wood- side."
 Now the Queens Terrace is an obscure, owlish cabaret of the noisy type and Woodside is, figuratively, Q million miles from Broadway. And Mary Nolan is g stage and screen star of whom the late Floren2 zieg- field once said: "She is the most beautiful blonde I ever glorified." Mary Nolan also shone among Hol- iywood's satellites, accumulated Q fortune as well as fame around the world. Which is why 1t might have made a fine sob story at the time she joined the Queens Terrace fioorshow at Woodside.
 But the fact is that 1t didn't. For Mary Nolan has been celebrated in comeback" stories often during the past few years and sympathetic tears were shed each time she pro. cured @ job on the fringes of New York. Then, the novelty of her valiant efforts to come back dis appeared even in the dispatches of her publicit. Now, he can only say modestly and succinctly, Mary Nolan has been added to the floor show of :"
 Roundabout Orbit
 And yet no young lady so pul- chritudinous, with the good fortune to skyrocket to the top and the mis- fortune to nosedive to the bottom, has displayed such determined zeal as Mary Nolan to redeem her luck and her career. At the age of thirty, she has already slipped sweet suc- cess, tasted failures bitter tea and embarked upon 6 new life
 At 18, she won ziegfeld's accolade for beautiful wofrlanhood. But gar- ish stories in the papers about her further glorifcation in the "Follies." She went to Germany, pushed her way to stardom in the cinema. And by devious route, came to Hollywood where she became an international- ly-known screen siren. (Remember Shanghai Lady" or Might Patrol" She starred, among many others, in those two).
 But jinx chased, haunted and dogged her footsteps until she was back to the bottom of the ladder she had ascended, two steps ct a time. She is reputed to have lost vast sums in the market crash as well as her movie contract. And by her own admission, her spirit.
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 Quetly-although 1t was too late for fanfare-she departed the gold coast, vanished for a while and re- appeared two years ago in Q Long Island cabaret as Q blues" singer. Singing is not regularly in her line, but she got by with renditions from dialogue in her motion picturse. Such lines as these were fitted into lyrics: T wanted your arms around me to shelter me from the rain" Or "But now I'm back where you found me, out in the cold again."
 The crowd, Q table d'hote crowd in New York suburb, took her song to be autobiographical and heaved a sad, philosophical sigh. And over in a corner one night, Mary Nolan said to an interview CT: T don't like night clubs, but have to live. I'm not @ singer, but have to make a living"
 Since then, the platinum blonde actress who wants to start afresh has been making public appearances in the outlying night clubs that she doesn't like, singing although she is not a professional songstress. And making living. Her publicist says that she is refreshed in mind and health; that she is waiting for Q Broadway spy or a Hollywood scout to catch the act and sign her up.