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A question few men
than men ?
would dare answer is better left to the girls,
and few girls are better
qualified than the one
who answers it here!
BY MAGGI McNELLIS
Ernie Byfield, who was an official of the hotel and host to all the famous people who made the Pump Room their Chicago headquarters, asked me why I didn't take up singing as a paying proposition. It sounded like a fine idea, so I did. Just that easily I had a career, all because a man suggested what I hadn't the wit to think of for myself. I was re-christened Maggi (from Marge) by Gertrude Lawrence, and there I was, singing my head off and having a wonderful time.
After the Pump Room I sang at the Drake
and the Blackstone in Chicago, and then I gave
it all up to come to New York. I hadn't thought
about continuing as a singer until one day I
1 happened to be talking to an agent who asked
1 if I hadn't been a singer in Chicago, and why
didn't I sing in New York. I told him I hadn't
come to New York for that reason but that it
was an idea. Shortly after that, thanks to my
friend the agent (male) , I was singing at Arm
1 ando's on 55th Street. And the next thing I
' knew Armando had introduced Clyde and me.
(Clyde always reminds Armando that he'll
never forgive him for it either — to keep me on my toes, I presume.)
At the risk of being obvious, I'd like to remind you that men make wonderful husbands and, in fact, are completely indispensable as such. From that indisputable point let's go on to some others on which you can, if you want, argue with me.
No one has to agree, but I do think men use their heads in conjunction with their hearts when they decide on a prospective wife — much more so than women do in picking the men with whom they presumably are going to spend the rest of their lives. Perhaps they aren't as concerned about position and background in New York, where most everyone loses his or her identity, but in the smaller towns a man who wants to get ahead does consider whether the little woman of his choice is going to be acceptable to his family (Continued on page 80)
Leave It To The Girls, with Maggi McNellis, is telecast Sun., 7 P.M. EST, NBC-TV. Sponsored by Regents.
Maggi referees the Sunday battle-of-the-sexes panel
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