European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The perfect fool photographs by Nina Leen after forty six years in show business. De Wynn is still getting laughs with his Gadget and nonsense e d Wynn one of the oldest living veterans of the entertainment world made a comeback last month in new York City. Antics of the sixty two year old comedian and his goofy inventions like the Corn on the cob Cater right that rings a Bell at the end of each Row outlandish hats and take offs on grand opera have been delighting vaudeville radio movie and theater audiences of and on during the last forty six years. Now he has taken a. Try at another Branch of show business night clubs. Six nights a week he enchants sophist rated cafe clients who probably remember seeing him As simple Simon or the perfect fool when their mothers used to take them to saturday Mati nees. Wynn s voice still cracks As he tells his audiences tonight the show is going to be different just As he did every sunday evening when he conducted a radio show is the fire chief which incidentally resulted in his being made honorable fire chief in Over fifty cities in the states. He still putters around the stage rolling and unrolling carpets demonstrating his fantastically useless gadgets and draping bolts of cloth Over Long legged chorus girls just As he did in his last Broadway production boys and girls together in 1941. Former soldiers of both world wars might remember the shows he put on in army Camps for them or at least they remember and can hum a few of the More than one Hundred songs both words and music he has written. Though the new Breezie comics depend on fast delivery and punch lines to make their audiences laugh Wynn persists in has old fashioned to std for results ridiculousness. The same nonsense that got laughs when Wynn  touring the Keith vaudeville circuit at the beginning of the Century still draws the Hearty response it always did. Wynn also was one of the first comedians to make fun of his sponsor s commercials fifteen years ago. In a business that has its ups and Downs. Wynn it seems is particularly buoyant. Coffee cooler releases hot liquid by Means of lever into Saucer with out spilling a drop on Tablecloth. Dunkers and Gravy toppers can keep fingers clean with this Plati num Chain thimble contraption. Sponge Bracelet for those who eat asparagus with fingers keeps the butter from going up sleeve. Crumb Catcher keeps Cracker bits � from falling on carpet also makes a Fine accessory for in bed eaters. To Grapefruit guard can be pulled Down when eating so juice won t squirt on glasses or in the eyes. Nevei Cril lighter does t need fluid or flints. Arrow jumps out and Points to Man with matches. Limit Ger odor is kept from cheese Lover s nostrils by nose guard which attaches to any Fork. Eight hour Candle will Wake by gig igniting the ear fellow who sleeps a through his alarm clock s ring a weekend. March 1j,