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Since BBC is an old hand at television, London has become the Paris of TV fashions, and at least one of its graduates, Bea Lillie, has credited wardrobe know-how for her chic and youthful image on U.S. sets. But New York has picked up a few tricks, too, in recent months. Examples...
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...make yourself up. Now a fellow with nice soft hands comes along and does it for you." Ella Logan was not too enthusiastic: "People tell me I didn't look bad. But usually, all the girls end up looking like Wallace Beery." The exception was 50-year-old Bea Lillie, who appeared on the television screen to be both young and beautiful. Miss Lillie's delicate moral reservation about television: "Isn't it going to cause a lot of drinking in the home...
They left the Academy, set up housekeeping in an abandoned box car on the south coast of England, rehearsed 14 to 16 hours a day. They found their vows hard to keep: to eat, all four played for a while in the orchestra of a Bea Lillie revue; and once for eight weeks two of them fiddled for the sound tracks of the first English talkies...
...years, six nights a week, she has done it without pay. She finds payment enough in "the chance to use every ounce of creative energy that I have." That energy bubbles through about 50 musical skits (written by Turnabout's Forman Brown); in some of them Elsa rivals Bea Lillie at her best...