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...Decco into six album, and even later than that is the days of "Knock Me A Kiss, and Mama, Mama Blues"; but now he's building up a reputation for having the biggest little comedy band in the country. And no matter how pleasant Deoley Wilson at the Mayfair and Arthur Fielder at the Pops may make "As Time Goes By," they don't play jazz...
...nation's wine stocks are also depleted. Last week the auction of a late Mayfair hostess' cellar brought these smacking prices: German white wines, $240 per dozen bottles; four bottles of Cointreau, $136, and seven of orange Curagao, $160; Chateau Pichon-Longueville claret, $26 a bottle. A solid Briton knows his after-dinner ports as well as he knows Royal Navy battleships. But in the auction last week, nameless brands of port brought $88 a dozen...
Variety called them the Lady (Kay Francis), the Sweater Girl (Carole Landis), the Hoofer (Mitzi Mayfair) and the Hoyden (Martha Raye). They got together last fall as a pickup team, only slightly acquainted with each other, for a tour of fighting fronts. Last week their "captain," Miss Francis, was home with the liveliest trouper's tale of the war. The four actresses had traveled 37,500 miles, had left the memory of their perfume in camps on three continents, won the praise of General Dwight Eisenhower and established themselves as sweethearts of the A.E.F...
Their show was a fast, 58-minute routine: Miss Francis told stories; Miss Landis sang (one of her numbers: Strip Polka) ; Miss Raye clowned and Miss Mayfair danced, winding up her act by cutting a rug with a soldier and then carrying him offstage like a sack of meal. When they learned that their audiences hungered for the scent of perfume, the girls conserved their small supply by wearing it only at performances...
...when Cinemablonde Carole Landis married U.S. Army Air Forces Captain Thomas C. Wallace in a little church off Piccadilly Circus. For her third marriage the 24-year-old bride wore an inviting package of white satin and tulle, carried white orchids and carnations. Maid of honor was Dancer Mitzi Mayfair. The church crawled with reporters and photographers, who bustled down the aisle after the happy couple, went to work from prominent positions along the altar rails. The groom mumbled his lines, but the bride was in good voice. Afterwards on the church steps flash bulbs started popping again, and photogenic...