No Aquacade Nudity, Says Miss Holm; Likes Harvard Men, Wants to See Them

"I want you to understand there's no nudity in our show; we're not running anything like that Rand woman's ranch. We've got 156 beautiful Aquagals here, and they all wear something," Eleanor ("Aquabelle") Holm said in an interview on the opening day of the World's Fair.

"They're athletic, too," she said proudly. "I taught them to swim myself."

Seated in her private dressing room behind the scenes of the giant amphitheatre where her husband Billy Rose daily wows Fair audiences with his Aquacade, the shapely backstroker turned repturously to the subject of Harvard boys.

Harvard Boys "Wonderful"

"Harvard boys? Well, I only know a few, but I think they're wonderful; I really love them. They're nothing like those dull Yale men we used to see gaping open-mouthed at us at the Casa Manana in New York every night.

"Now I want you to tell all the Harvard boys to come to our show, and I want them all to come backstage and see me."

She glided out of her dressing room into the bustle of a rehearsal. Behind the stage a group of half-clad mermaids were clustered about Johnny Weismuller who had condescended to lot them admire his great chest.

Billy Rose, the little man with elephantiasis of the imagination, was showing little interest in the former Mr. Lupe Velez' chest expansion.

"That's terrible," he bellowed at a girl who was disrobing in front of him. "I want tight-fitting, flesh-colored bathing suits not that junk!"

Billy Rose was not the only little man at the show. Encountered while he was resting between rounds of dedicating buildings, Mayor Fiorelio La Guardla said, "The Hasty Pudding Show? I got a great kick out of secing myself in that. I've been trying to copy that actor's laugh ever since."