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DAILY NEWS. "MONDAY, "APRIL 31967 i A Bust in Burlesque Strike? Anne Howe! It is exactly 41 days since the BIG show business strike began and yet all you can read about in the papers is that Jackie Gleason is a rerun, that Ed Sullivan isn't live anymore and that Love of Life is off the air until further notice. i JoeCmidu II II gm J3 6M i I I KrX AJ days each week so she can dance exotically for the tired old men and lively young men who uncomplainingly pay $3.50 a head to see her act. She Ignores Pickets Every time Miss Howe comes to work, the pickets shout "Scab, stab" at her. But Miss Howe, (NEWS foto by Judd Mehlman) Pickets inarch outside Gayety Theatre at 12th St.

and Second Ave. true to her conscience, just ig- This is a shame, because if the BIG show biz strike deserves anything, it is coverage! The labor dispute involves Manhattan's only burlesque theatre. The strikers have their headquarters in a two-table, 20-cent-a-slice pizza joint on 12th St. and Second Ave. Next door, within easy picketing distance, is the Gayety Theatre, which houses, according to the newspaper ads, "New York's only illuminated runway." Cast of Characters Heading the bill with Minnie the Mermaid, Jodie Baby, Miss Hong Kong, Honey North and Christie, "queen the topless," is Anne Howe, the possessor of many charms, not the least of which is a 48-inch bosom.

But to the members of the American Guild of Variety Artists, whose shoe leather is being sacrificed on the Gayety's sidewalk. Miss Howe is as beloved as Chet Huntley is to the outside the NBC studios. Thi3 is because of Miss Howe's conscience. It is permitting her to cross the picket line seven nores them and tosses her head and her chest in the air. According to Perry Watkins, an AGVA official, theatre owner Leroy Griffith is responsible for the labor dispute.

According to Lisa Holliday, who manages the theatre, the union is at fault. In any case, both sides are farther apart than Huntley and Brink-ley, and the picketing continues outside while the "adult entertainment" goes on within. It is quite a show. The other night, just before the start of the stage show. Miss emcee appeared.

He welcomed everybody to the place and was about to start selling the special 50-cent burlesque special offer a chocolate bar and tiny picture viewer when a racket started from the street. The shouting, barely audible, interrupted the emcee for only an instant. They were: "Scab, scab." Miss Howe had arrived for the 3 P.M. show and was being greeted by the pickets. The disturbanca did not affect the sale of the chocolate bars.

offstage, a record player was giving out with Chopin's "Polonaise." Ernest grabbed his blue cop's hat and escorted the 41 paying guests to their seats. They turned out to be a bunch of slightly woozy volunteer firemen, who, according to Miss Holliday, come in from the suburbs once a year for a theatre party. She told the just-awake Ernest to "make sure that there's only 41 of them. That's all that paid." Just as they were settling down for a couple of hours of entertainment, the film ended and the Holliday yelled to Mike, the uniformed guard with the inch-wide sideburns that reached to his jaw bone. "Where is Ernest? What do you mean 'he's sleeping'? Wake him up.

We have a party of 41." Sure enough, Ernest, another uniformed guard, was asleep in a rear seat, unmindful of the screen presentation. Volunteer Firemen This silent epic showed a naked lady with dirty feet wrestling with a pillow while somewhere Former Beauty Queen a Mrs. Poc Looks Fit as Me Waits Foci A Trial's Start Today By THEO WILSON Staff Correspondent of The News Naples, April 2 My last glimpse of Dr. Carl Coppolino was on a bleak December morning last year in Freehold, N.J., when he was hustled from the Monmouth County jail into a waiting car for his return trip, under guard, to Florida. It was Dec.

16, the morning tffV J) after a New Jersey jury found the 34-year-old author and former anesthesiologist innocent a charge of murdering a neighbor, retired Lt. Col. William Farber, husband of Coppolino's former mistress and chief accuser, Marge Farber. Coppolino then was skinny, drawn and pale after months of living behind bars. As soon as he arrived in Florida he was set free in $15,000 bond, and today, when he arrived here from Sarasota for his second murder trial, he looked like a different man.

The trial starts tomorrow. He was bronzed, he was back to his normal weight of 165 (he had gone down to 125 pounds at one time during his imprisonment )and in shorts and a sports jacket today, he appeared relaxed and affable as he lunched at the Golfing Buccaneer, a resort motel that advertises itself as being "planned for people who enjoyed elegant comfort in an atmosphere of complete relaxation." Daughter With Him With Coppolino were one of his daughters, Monica, 9, and Heidi, 19, the elder daughter of divorcee Mary Gibson, whom he married in Sarasota in 1965, about a month after the death of his first wife, Carmela. He is now to be tried for murder in Carmela's death. Mary and her younger daughter, Claire, 15, drove the 108 miles here from Sarasota later. Lisa, 4, Coppolino's younger child by Carmela, was at home.

By order of presiding Judge Lynn N. Silvertooth, reporters Sue Ann Downey, 22, Miss U.S.A. of 1963, was married to Richard Olsen, in Columbus, Ohio, yesterday. Olsen, a former judge, is engaged in law practice in Miami. -iwCk Dr.

Carl Coppolino In Sarasota for second trial Lynn Weds Behind the Scenes By FRANK MAZZA Taking time out from her starring chores in Broadway's "Black Comedy," blonde Lynn Redgrave, 23, who soared to film fame in "Georgy Girl," was married in a super-secret ceremony yesterday to actor John Clark, 34, who was divorced from his first wife onlv two weeks atro. 8 The Ethical Culture ceremony are barred from conversations with Coppolino and everybody else in the case, but Coppolino recognized a group of out-of-state reporters and waved and smiled. The Golfing Buccaneer, where defense attorney F. Lee Bailey and his investigators also are staying, is on the Tamiami Trial, or Route 41, about four miles from the Collier County court house, where Coppolino will be tried. Heart Attacks, Says Defense Carmela Coppolino, according to the defense, died of a heart attack.

Prosecutor Frank Schaub, who has moved from Sarasota County with the trial on a change of venue, inteds to prove Carmela was killed by Coppolino with an injection of succinylcholine, a relaxant used by anesthesiologists. The trial will be conducted in a modern three-story building in the spacious five-year-old Collier County government complex, where covered walkways connect four glass-and-concrete buildings. Spectators have been warned that seating space will be limited, and they will be seated on a first-come-first-served basis. More than 30 reporters are accredited and 103 seats are available. and his wife, Gail, daughter of Lena Horne.

It was Lynn's first marriage. Clark was divorced two weeks ago from Canadian actress Kay Hawtreys. He was born in London and is a naturalized American who has lived in New York for seven years. Until recently, he was in the cast of the off-Broadway play, "MacBird." Picture on page 1) Lady Rachel Redgrave and her sister, Vanessa, now a noted stage and screen actress. The only missing member of the Redgrave acting family was Lynn's brother, Corin, also an actor.

Lynn wore a long-sleeved, mini-skirted white silk dress. She carried a bouquet of daisies and had a wreath of daisies in her long hair. Her attendant was her sister. There was no best man. The other guest3 were Clark's mother, Mrs.

John Clark; Lumet took place at 2 P.M. in the living room of director Sidney Lumet's town house at 1380 Lexington near E. 91st St. Only six guests attended. A champagne reception followed for some 20 friends of the newly-weds, who announced their engagement only last Friday.

Looking on as the couple exchanged vows were Lynn's parents Sir Michael Redgrave and.