...any card, from the dainty hand of silent screen siren Carmel Myers, one of the era's more plausible vamps.Carmel Myers fun fact: she was a cousin of our beloved Broadway Lady Betty Comden!
And now is the time on the Café Muscato when we namedrop: I know this because Miss Comden told me so herself. We haven't always been stranded out here on the Indian Ocean, you know!
I used to see Betty (and Adolf & Phyllis out at the theater rather often). One of my favorite spottings was Betty & Adolf sitting with Al Hirschfeld on a bench in the lobby of the Martin Beck (now named for Hirschfeld). I was dying to speak to them but there was far too much theatrical legend wattage for the lowly likes of me to approach.
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