| Show i Gypsy Rose Lee Says Says' Bosses i Are Boys She Loves Most S Walter WInchell Is on vacation during the month of or Au August lie He will have a guest columnist rea relace replace re- re a place lace him each day The Winchell column will wilt be back as usual I September 1 The ht Men I Love Love Love- By GYPSY GaTSY ROSE LEE Dear Walter a- a Meditating l on the men I love a I find most of them have been the gentlemen for whom I worked When I think of the Bosses I led feel a sharp twinge of nostalgia and a deep realization that these are the boys who helped me get along arid and who paid the salary First there was Sid Grauman at the the California theater My sister June and I appeared in The Blue BlueBIrd Bird my mother was the Good Fairy of the piece This dates my advent into show busine busi busl- ness ne I seem to dimly remember it was the year ear of the Dempsey Dempsey- Carpentier fight Of course my mother carried Inc me on v Hal ilal Roach was was my next He was making two-reel two comedies with Harold Lloyd Llod and Bebe Dan Dan- I wont won't mention my hand hand- some salary for my fIrstS first effort effort- Miss Daniels the star was under contract for tor 45 a week Mother still carried me on Alex h had d the Gypsy on the payroll for a long time then Sam Michaels took me inc under his wing Billy saw me mc working in Newark in an act with six girls He offered a contract contract contract con con- tract and nd took the girls at in increased increased increased in- in creased salaries He wanted me for his Republic theater be a showplace for you he Ite told me inc I doubted this but enough that's what it turned out Flo saw me and offered me mc a principals principal's role in Hot Cha I worked in scenes but since I had a chorus girls girl's rating with Equity I couldn't appear in inthe inthe Inthe the finale This was a heart- heart breaker Billy nilly Rose hired me for his Casino de do Paree Farce There was early friction because I refused to work in the tableaux Billy wouldn't believe it it You who've been arrested twice wont won't pose nude he said I wasn't exactly nude I said I had my red bows glued I on on and I was getting more mone Ah ha ha said Billy so your modesty is monetary l' l Lee Shubert and Harry Kaufman Kaufman Kaufman Kauf Kauf- man gave me my first real break In n Follies of 1937 Daryl Zanuck was my next boss On my arrival in Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood he showed me a stack of letters all protesting my appearance in pictures and suggesting suggesting suggesting sug sug- sugI I gesting that there were more de deserving deserving deserving de- de serving movie aspirants They must not have realized that it took ook me 19 years to get there there there-I I thought bought I was perfectly deserving I Anyway my name became Louise Hovick lovick for the duration though I Will Hays who insisted on the I change continued and continues I Ito to o call me Gypsy Rose Lee Now I am working for Mike Todd odd Todd who has Streets of Paris Gay New Orleans and Dancing Campus at the Fair and who produced produced pro pro- Hot Mikado last year I am a a. worlds world's fair fan though doing three and four shows a day takes akes me inc back to working hard-working I burlesque days What did I do doon I Ion on ott my first day off I visited all the he girls on the Midway I saw Zorina Rosita Royce Legs Under the Sea Why Do and Frozen rozen Alive In my next free I moment I want to see little Betty Garrett do her lower-berth lower striptease striptease strip- strip tease ease in Railroads on Parade That sounds like a novelty When hen Sally Rand opened in town own the other day I had a ringside ringside ringside ring ring- side table Guess we all like a ausman's busman's usman's holiday because Ive I've caught glimpses of Ann Corio Margie Hart Georgia Southern and Muriel Page in the audience at Streets of Paris Pans And so the Men I Love have been een my bosses I also love a fellow who once a long time ago said Orchids to Gypsy Rose Lee and her nudist colony That's when I first felt I might go places That's when I first started keeping keep keep- I ing ng a scrapbook Copyright 1940 Daily Mirror |
