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Marion makes Topper follow his wife to the French Riviera. There, appearing and disappearing with clocklike regularity, she plays tricks with Topper's headgear (see cut), cheats at roulette, removes a pair of bathing trunks from Mrs. Topper's gigolo, and in a climactic scene disappears from a ballroom floor, leaving Topper to dance a sudden solo...
...York" (1927) discussed the problems of her married life with 51-year-old Comedian Ed Wynn. Highlights: She is recuperating from one of "all sorts of breakdowns" she says she has suffered since she married Wynn 14 months ago; she is forced to hire a $20-a-night gigolo to take her out because "everybody's afraid to dance with me on account of my husband." Explained Miss Mierse: "Ed's elderly and I'm young. It's making a wreck out of me. I'm losing weight awfully...
...rooms. In one the minimum bet is 5 francs (about a quarter); in the other 500 francs. Last night in the 500 franc room were seated at one table a King, two Counts, a Boston deb, the bar tender from my hotel, one of Madame Blouse's girls, a gigolo and four old women showing the Count how much money they had. Royalty and the old women did the betting: the gigolo tried to explain things for the deb; Madame Blouse's girl kept dropping things; and I giggled my only ten francs in my pocket...
Like its rival, Sketch, the Toiler combined fiction and fun in its Christmas annual. Both magazines had colored centre spreads, Tatter's by Comic Artist Henry Mayo Bateman, who contributed "The Gigolo Who Refused to Dance"; Sketch's by the late Sporting Artist Cecil Aldin who drew a Dickensian "Christmas Coach Crossing Marlborough Downs." With art lovers, Sketch went one up by giving away a colored insert of "Ballet" by Dame Laura Knight, A. R. A. The London Sphere's Christmas annual featured the Victoria & Albert Museum's wax "Nativity," while the Illustrated London News...
...crowd back, the two fought through one of the brilliant finishes for which the Maryland Hunt Cup is famed. When it was over, Hotspur II was still leading, by less than half a length. Fifteen lengths behind, the two other finishers straggled home-Mrs. Vadim Makaroff's Gigolo and Benjamin Leslie Behr's Outlaw...