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Today, not surprisingly, Hollywood contains the two astrologers best known for their "personal work." Carroll Righter, 62, has numbered among his clients such notables as Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Tyrone Power, Peter Lawford, Marlene Dietrich, Dick Powell, Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, and Maria Montez (a prize exhibit because she was warned in 1951 that the first week of September, an adverse time in her chart, would bring her danger from water, and drowned in her bathtub on Sept. 7). Righter's rival is veteran Stargazer Blanca Holmes, who boasts her own long list of big names, including the late...
...MARLENE DIETRICH'S ABC (189 pp.)-Marlene Dietrich-Doubleday...
Another show business dowager being heard from currently in print is Marlene Dietrich. Having gracefully graduated from showing her figure in public to the role of public figure (as a glamorous grandmother and crony of the late Ernest Hemingway), Dietrich tries to cash in on both images in Marlene Dietrich's ABC. As a result, the book is a kind of uneasy cross between Poor Richard's Almanack and a Lorelei's Advice to the Lovelorn...
Posters showing her legs were once banned from the Paris metro-too tantalizing to straphangers-so when unfading Marlene Dietrich, 57, turned up to show her classic calves for real, the Olympia music hall bulged with appreciative Frenchmen. With the old seductiveness, she caressed 18 songs a night, but drew the heartiest oo-la-las when, turned out in top hat, tails-and bare legs-she did a few coltish kicks. A grateful management held her over an extra week, and grateful admirers despoiled acres of rose gardens to pay her floral tribute...
Hollywood Special (ABC, 8:30-10:30 p.m.). Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton in Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution...