Show Stripper Rented Typewriter and Bought Paper gaper So So She's Authoring Mystery Novel N I t 1 z r b F A j t A tx e ep r p II x r Gypsy Rose Lee authoress sits at the typewriter in the dressing room of Gypsy Rose Lee No I strip artist looking over the latest chapter of her murder mystery yarn and pondering Whodunit By TOM WOLF NEW YORK NEA B Biffs eye kicked me under the table Gypsy Rose Ros Lee burlesques burlesque's prima trippa accidentally blurted out this terse sentence in the middle of her act one night last fall Had they known it those who heard this slip might have glimpsed a facet of the statuesque statuesque statuesque statu statu- esque which she has never revealed to her side ramp-side public The truth of the matter Is that Miss Lee had just thought of a phrase she wanted for for a book she was writing Yes Gypsy Rose Lee has completed completed completed com com- a word mystery The String G-String Murder Case tobe to tobe tobe be published this fall by Simon Schuster It all began one day about a year ago when a syndicated writer asked Gypsy to be guest author of ot his column I 1 rented a typewriter for a month she recalls and bought 25 carbons and a huge stack of paper And AndI I went to work Well darling everyone's darling to Gypsy I had always thought that writing writing writing writ writ- ing wasn't my business I didn't know from it But darling I batted out that column in half an hour and then Im I'm stuck with a typewriter for a month and lots lotsof lotsof lotsof of paper So I thought I might just as well write something Lethal Weapon She conceived the idea of a murder mystery against a burlesque burlesque burlesque bur bur- lesque background background-a a background which few people know as well as she She started off by having her murderer strangle a couple of people with a string G-string and but that would be giving the plot away Miss Lees Lee's words piled up She typed her manuscript single- single spaced without punctuation or r capitals She kept sending the publisher new chapters and corrections corrections corrections cor cor- cor- cor for old ones as she toured the country in her act Id drop a few clues here and there Gypsy continued and then send in a chapter Then Id I'd get a wire back The chapter is wonderful Where in the devil does it belong So Id I'd have to figure out where to put it Miss Lee gets positively explosive explosive explosive sive when anyone asks if she really reany did all an the writing herself She crosses her heart that she did Stuck With Habit Before her book appears this I fall faU Gypsy is going on tour Gypsy Gyps has been a trouper of one sort or another for 25 of her 28 years Born plain Louise Hovick in Se Seattle Seattle Seattle Se- Se attle Wash she started as as as' asa a dancer when she was 3 went into vaudeville When vaudeville hit the skids she broke into burlesque in 1931 because someone thought she looked like Ann Corio then top Since then Gypsy has become Americas America's best known and highest paid burlesque artis ar ar- ar artist t. t 91 |