Mary Wynne & her São Paulo night-club column at Estadão

We don't know with certainty when US citizen Mary Wynne started as a journalist at daily 'O Estado de São Paulo' for she began her role working 'behind the scenes'. We presume she was first given the task of assembling a list of the best restaurants and night-clubs in town and publish it among the cinema & theatre ads section at the last pages of the newspaper. 

A column called 'Bares Boites Restaurantes' was first published on 6 June 1954. From a nameless strip it soon started being signed by Mary. Eventually it became highly personalized changing its name to 'Mary go-round'.

Mary Wynne as a young lady in the 1920s.

15 January 1955 - Mary turns her 'list-column' into some sort of 'gossip column' in which she tells the latest news about show business. She comments about weekly illustrated magazine Manchete's article about the Oasis night-club with photos showing Russo do Pandeiro (Antonio Cardoso Martins *4 Feb 1913 +16 May 1985) doing what he did best: play his tambourine. Russo performed with Carmen Miranda in the US. 

Mary's short notes at the bottom of her column on the Sunday 'Estadão' on 27 February 1955. Soon, she would write much more than 3 selected notices. 

Peters Sisters with their highly-polished act in a Dutch club visited São Paulo in 1955.

6 March 1955 (Sunday) - Ms Wynne writes about US trio Peters Sisters who had been  touring Brazil having performed on TV Paulista, Channel 5 and done stints at both Lord and Oasis night-clubs. 

6 June 1954 - This was Mary Wynne's very first Sunday column at 'OESP'. It contained the names of 8 night-clubs and 7 restaurants) around town. 

15 January 1955 - By January 1955, Mary Wynne had increased her restaurant & night-club list from 15 in mid-1954 to 21, besides adding 7 places from Rio de Janeiro. Business was booming! 

3rd April 1955 - Mary mentions US pianist Freddy Feld for the 1st time. Mary & Feld would become fast friends until his tragic death in Rio. Fred Feld  was born Friederick Wilhelm Feldman on 8 April 1914, in Iowa, USA and passed away on 9 November 1970, in Rio de Janeiro, aged 56. He is most remembered as a nightclub pianist celebrity in São Paulo and Rio during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Unfortunate murder victim of a violent homophobic crime. His zodiac sign was Aries.

Mary Wynne dancing with a Gaucho probably before she moved to Brazil in 1929. Judging by the whip Mary has around her arm it could've been part of an act.

Mary Winne's Portrait of a Clown, she painted circa 1961.