The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-03
HOLLYWOOD EXTRA


 who had hand in the daal stood sut for finger in the pie. Sam } Goldwyn was set to produce, Col. x Sill Wyler was ready to direct, Bob Sherwood was prepared to write it. < All profits were to go to the five star immortal's charities. But the fixers held out for percentage, so Ike junked the project in language that TNTd the transatlantic tele- phone .. It will be done, of course, some day. But right now it isn't safe to mention the matter to the 7 ETO boss man One of the &C., < qulsitive birds is Hollywood agent, who stood out for his 10 per cent, while he nobly offered to share with z. the other party. former movie man now in a Semi-official job. X Winfield R. Sheehan, the Buffalo boy who made good around the world, left all to his widow, Jeritza the ex-diva. The estate consists mostly of debts. The fortune < Shehan amassed had evaporated. His last picture, Captain Eddie" soon to be released, may yield a handsome return. Previews of the life of Eddie Rickenbacker won op- ' timistic verdicts from the sharp K shooters in the trade. But Sheehan had drawn rather heavily against < 1t The former head of the Fox picture empire, discovered of count less stars, shrewd anticipator of entertainment values, had chipped away millions since his retirement, when he sold out to Schenck and x Zanuck ....
 I first met Winnie Sheehan in 1906. I pulled off my honeymoon to cover the Thaw trial in New York for the Chicago American. z Between O. Henry (N. Y. World) and Irwin Cobb (N. Y. JournaD they seated me and the lad from the Buffalo News. We roomed up to- gether, on Sixth Ave, and deep in the night we used to take Evelyn Nesbit Thaw out for coffee and sandwiches at an hour when she wouldn't snarl traffic. O. Henry was so infatulated with her, he would sit all day and drink her in, egg-eyed. We took pity on the old genius and invited him ot join us < with her in the middle of the nights, { when she was the star of the hot lest newspaper copy of generations. Winnie, later, when William Fox N got stuck on him and elevated him N rapidly (after Sheehan had become secretary of the N. Y. police com- missioner starred Evelyn in a N silent. Or two. He rose to the apex of the industry. Fox, when he fell harbored grudge against Sheehan, claiming double-cross. Twasn't so. Sheehan was simply cagey enough to see Fox was washed up with the huge outfit, so he strung along with those who were taking over.
 Sheehan married Kay Laurel, one of Ziegfeld's glorified. She died. He @ hired and managed million beauts before he became enamored of Je- ritza, a woman of position and poise N They planned to establish at Inns ~ bruck, in her native Austria, the s biggest outdoor theater on earth, ano ss the two were to produce there along the Max Reinhardt lines. under \ stand they put considerable Ameri- can cash into the venture, before Hitler went haywire. That's all down the drain now, of course.
 Eva Tanguay turned 67 this week Those who knew the blonde IT. Don't Care" girl at her height can scarcely believe she ever could grow old. It is just as well that not many Of them can SC her now This tenipestuously temperamental tor nado, whose clutch on audiences was unique, is now blind; her gyrat- ing arms and those irresistible legs are useless, warped and troturec with arthritis. She lives, and has lived for a dozen years-thiS mad cap who threw away thousands a! though they were telephone slugs- E in a wooden shanty on side stree in Hollywood, on the largesse oi \ show people, most of whom scarcely knew her in the days of fame-fol Eva was a headstrong, independent uppity headliner. She would walk cut in the middle of starring en. gageemnt on some thin whim. (HoU she could use the salaries today she threw away thenD .. She is still fmperious-won't have that ano q won't tolerate this And she li still indulged by Sophie Tucker anc other soft-hearted troupers who are eager to help and sympathize.
 remember when Eva was star ring in musical show called Sam 4 bo." at the Great Northern in Chi cago. A superannuated multi-mil- S lionaire sugar king was following her around the country. He offered her fur coat and diamond ring Eva, always capricious-and always gcnerous-told the rich sucker she wouldn't accept unless he gave the ' same to every girl in her show ' There were "A in the chorus alone and in all I think there were more than thirty. He gave in and gave up Every girl in the company got sparkler and a sealskin (then re- garded as big time( benny was tipped to the yarn and pub lished it Two days later, his ~ family sent a keeper who led the sugar daddy away, muttering anC shaking his snowy head under .ts silk "stovepipe" The tragic Tanguay must have many mockine memories haunting her pathetic solitude .. wish someone would buy them.
 Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski is {
 new girl. The white-haired macs \ bridegroom of the 21-year ole
 heiress has transformed her int
 charming, subdued, sedate persor
 Not long ago, Gloria would
 storm into high-priced bars, he * scarlet toenails protruding iron
 loud wedgies. smoking through {
 cigarette holder as long as an al