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...Maine Chance" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Musicomedienne Beatrice Lillie, 59, mused on her own stint in the rise-at-7:30, lights-out-at-10:30 Elizabeth Arden camp: "Miss Separate Table, that was me. Everyone else was dieting. I was trying to put on some weight." Then with gusto Bea recalled: "One night some of us-and I won't say which-sneaked out the window, past the guards and rushed into Phoenix. There was a loud bar there and a very real cowboy. It was wonderful. He didn't know who I was. and all I know...
...Boone's Chevy Showroom: Some new 1958 cars got in the way on Singer Pat Boone's show, where Guest Bea Lillie was introduced as "the imitable." Bea showed plenty of mileage for an older model: she poked her thimble nose through big fluttering fans, slipped off the piano a time or two, tripped over her long chiffon scarf. With limp, well-scrubbed adoration, Pat said: "You sure deserve the reputation you have," to which worldly-wise Bea replied: "Thanks-I think." Before she got hopelessly boxed in a square dance, Comedienne Lillie, 59, and Singer Boone...
...richole, which he also staged. "I sound like a sick walrus when I'm in good voice," he says. Within a matter of months he also bested Mike Wallace on Night Beat, played the bean peddler in TV's Jack and the Beanstalk, made some records with Bea Lillie, played all the parts in a recording of Alice in Wonderland, recorded Peter and the Wolf with the Philadelphia Orchestra, did several benefits and filled various speaking engagements. "I simply drift around like flotsam and jetsam," he says with creaks and squeaks in his voice, his sad, pale eyes...
These goings-on carry the girls to the unstoppered hell of arty cocktail parties and the drawing-room purgatories of upper-caste Britons living beyond their unearned incomes. The book's brittle, so-weary-of-it-all lament, which only a Bea Lillie could salvage, too often turns the glint of champagne sparkle into ginger-beer fizz.. But Author Manning has an unerring wit that probably comes unforced to a contributor to Punch, and she sees to it, at novel's end, that each of the doves has been properly plucked...
...ransacked the U.S. and Europe for funnymen; Victor Borge, Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis all made their TV debuts on the Sullivan program. Spectaculars? Ed is convinced that the basic idea came from such Toast of the Town biographies as those of Oscar Hammerstein II, Bea Lillie, Cole Porter and Walt Disney. Sullivan boasts that his show was the first to 1) have a permanent chorus line, 2) originate outside Manhattan, 3) introduce celebrities from the audience...