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...Actress de Banzie and a hard-drinking, hard-bargaining Estelle Winwood-who is blackmailing her-are speaking of murder that Speaking of Murder comes most happily to life. With her high-styled eeriness, her split-second vagueness, Actress Winwood could impose a sense of drawing-room comedy on a Laundromat, and does it all the better in a library. Though not a thriller, Speaking of Murder, as Broadway's only example of the type, should provide relief to those who crave a thriller until an actual thriller comes along...
...going to do." He thinks a Broadway column should be "entertaining, give people a laugh." To do so, he serves his readers a dry Manhattan-four-parts fun to one-part reporting. Now a balding 48, Sylvester covers a bright-light beat that ranges from the East Side Chinese Laundromat called "Helpee Selfee" to the West Side gypsy who advertises "all fortunes guaranteed," from the Bowery tattoo parlor which offers "personalized monograms" to the swank Sutton Place apartment building which prohibits "beggars, baby carriages, bicycles or foreign cars in the lobby." The freshness of Sylvester's approach stems from...
...laundromat machines at the Graduate Center will receive an official "baptism" this afternoon, when-students will be given free laundry soap and free service...
...Hildegarde, were finding Elsa a little on the puzzling side. Following a polished dance team, she came coyly onstage looking, as she calls it, a little "tatty" in an artfully simple dress, her red curls all over her head. Her first song, about a blooming romance in a laundromat, was delivered in a saucy, off-key voice something like a boy soprano's. Then Elsa climbed on top of the grand piano to pitch a mildly off-color number called The Janitor's Boy. The audience liked some of Elsa's pitches, but they were a little...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, West-tinghouse Electric Corp. treated the press to cocktails, Florida pineapple, breast of chicken on Virginia ham, baked Alaska. As a savory, it brought in 1) its postwar appliance models and 2) a brand new president. Most impressive among the new products was a "laundromat" which automatically fills itself, washes clothes, rinses and drys them, empties, then cleans itself...