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iStose ee Is IXlext TesrgeS Of Mayor's With the Shot By David Charnay and Warren Hall. WAAC (GOES AWOL TO DO A STRIP ACT Des Moines, Dec. 4 (). The WAACs had a new problem on their hands today what to do with a former chorus girl who went AWOL and turned up as a strip-teaser Gypsy Rose Lee, who graduated from burlesque about the same time as Margie Hart and from the same Minsky alma mater, got the nod from Mayor LaGuardia yesterday as the next target in his campaign to wash the faces of Broadway shows and put a little soap in their mouths. Hi CO a Pi 'A Burlesque of Burlesque' 1 1 v---" 1 V-rv I B3Sr 53.

in a Des Moines theatre. The WAAC press relations office identified her as Kathryn Doris Gregory of Fort Worth, Texas, a curvaceous 22-year-old brunette who claims extensive experience in George White's scandals and also work for Earl Caroll. Officers of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps training school at Fort Des Moines, declining to speculate on the outcome, said "her You may not believe it, but you're looking at a WAAC. She's Kathryn Gregory and she wanted to do a strip-tease. case has not been disposed of." (WAACs usually are confined to quarters pending any disciplinary action.) Post officials confirmed today that the glamour girl billed as Amber d'Georg of Hollywood, who charmed a Thanksgiving audience at the Casino Theater with her WAAC absent without leave.

Manager "Shocked." Military police, who had been on the lookout for the missing auxiliary (private), discovered her after the matinee and, with a WAAC officer, waited until she had donned street garb and took her back to the post. I had no idea she was a WAAC, said Pete DeCenzie. theater manager. "I was shocked to death when I found out." She was just a girl who had no understanding of her said Col. J.

A. Hoag. post commandant, "the matter will be handled inside our group. The girl record showed her to be the wife of Forrest Gregory of Tyler. Texas.

She claimed to have been captain of 22 chorus girls for the Scandals for a year and a half and to have I i Hizzoner didn mention Gypsy by name. He didn't even mention "Star and Garter," in wh'ch she is one half the title and takes off the other. But he managed to make it very clear, just the same, that this $4.40 hit musical was scheduled to mnk-p a lot of chancres, or follow "Wine, Women and Song" into Broadway history. The Mayor's attitude was disclosed while he was announcing that he had ordered License Commissioner Paul Moss to revoke the license of the Ambassador Theatre. That theatre housed ine, until its producers were convicted Thursday of permitting an indecent performance.

Mayor Explains Towers. Explaining that the license commissioner has the power to close a theatre for a year if a performance there is declared indecent by the courts, the Mayor added: "The owners are the Shuberts, vho have a pretty good reputation." Then he told what he called an 'intt resting story" about a producer who has been writing to Moss asking a ruling on his play. "Mr. Moss told him it was his wn responsibility," LaGuardia went on. "Later, Mr.

Moss told him that his play was dirty. Now he'll have to use some soap and disinfectant if he wants to stay in business. He asked for it and now he's pot it. I think he was trying to build up a case." Wouldn't Name the Show. When the Mayor declined to name the show, The News called the four! shows that, together with ''Wine, ttc," have been listed by the Catholic Theatre Movement as "wholly objectionable." These were the responses: Star and Garter (via Michael Todd, its producer): "Yes.

I wrote two letters to Commissioner Moss asking him to define what he considered objectionable in a show. "Undoubtedly the Mayor is referring to me, but I don't know why. 1 want to cooperate, but I want to Tilay according to the rules. Every thing in this show and all actors have appeared in other iritimate shows, and met with its criticism. Wants Them to See It.

''This show was staged by Has-rsard Short, who directed "The Great Waltz" and "The American Way" and who caters to the best tastes of the American people. Once more I am going to ask Mayor LaGuardia and Commissioner Moses to see my show and discuss with me anything they think ought to come out." Strip For Action (with Jack Toohey speaking for Oscar Seilin. 111 Elnora lyes. Gypsy Rose Lee and Audrey Westphal (1. to as they appear in "Star and Garter." Execute Shyer of 3 in Gas Cell He Helped Build San Quentin.

Dec. 4 (U.R). Alfred Horace Wells, 32-year-old San Bernardino hunchback, was executed today for the murder of three persons who interefered with his illicit love affair. He died in the gas chamber he helped to install several years ago while serving a term for robbery. worked for Earl Carroll since 19'it-'.

She listed her occupation as a blues and professional singer and adagio and ballroom dancer. She reported here Nov. 3 and went AWOL Nov. 26, the post report said, and returned Nov. 28 rijrht after the matinee.

Violet Wells dino, because they had broken up his common-law relationship with his pretty half-sister Violet Wells, 18. the producer) "We don't think we're going to be affected. There isn't one obscene bit in the show, which merely happens to be a legitimate play about burlesque. We defy anyone to find one objectionable line." 'What's In a By Jupiter (Forrest Haring speaking for Producer Dwight Deere Wiman, now a director of entertainment for the Red Cross overeases): "We'd be gald to take anvthing out of the show that might be considered risque, hut we don't know where to begin. There's no strip tease, no bad words, no questionable gestures, but merely a couple of kisses.

Since when are stage kisses taboo? "This is the musical version of (P). The Government today cream curtailed about 20 '( in about V't of the amount of butter produced last December. Officials said they consider ice cream a food and not a luxury and that there is no disposition to stop its manufacture. They added that it might not be as plentiful as formerly and the new fruit flavors might replace more of the chocolate and other flavors made scarce by the war. 1 the play "Warrior's which starred Katharine Hepburn on Broadway in 1932 and was played, in one act, as far back as 1921." Native Son (Vincent McKnight talking for Harry Brandt, who took the show over from Orson Welles, its original producer): "Calling this show objectionable is a naive and unwarranted attempt to sup- press a stage production that l.

.1 LI lea oi me p. oo.ems largest minority group. If there are some who would like to drive 'Native Son' from Broadway, it would be well if they addressed themselves toward solving' the problems that the play depicts. The producers, the managers and the authors of 'Native' are prepared and willing to defend and support the current Broadway production with their full strength and resources." Margie Feels Better. "Wine, Women and Song's" Margie, who vowed she was "going back to the farm and raise pigs," seemed to be undergoing a change of heart yesterday.

Her manager admitted she hoped to get into vaudeville at five grand a week, no less with all her clothes on, "but form-fitting, if you know what I mean." Walter Greaza, national administrator of the American Guild of Variety Artists, disclosed yesterday that the cast of 31 would get two weeks pay from a bond paid for by the Shuberts. "But they withdrew from the show almost four weeks ago," he added. And Mow It's Ice Cream Must Eat Rationally a prayer, wells en- tered the death chamber at 10:02 A. M. He closed his eyes, inhaled the lethal fumes and was pronounced dead at 10: 12' 2 A.

M. Wells shot to death his half-brother, Raymond Wells, 24; Raymond's wife, Jean, 19, and Mrs. Well's young friend, Rose Destree, 17 on May 17, 1941. He killed them at Cajon near San Bernar- Alfred Horace Wells Washington, D. Dec.

4 ordered the manufacture of ice December and January The War Production Board directed manufacturers and restaurants to produce only 60r, of their October output. Because less ice cream is made in the colder months cf December and January, however, the cut will amount to only about 2CKf below the normal production. The order is designed to save enough butter fat to make pounds of butter in December,.