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...West's 38-24-38. "I like 'em tight, girls," growled Mae, and was soon jammed into costumes in which she could not "lie, bend or sit." So that West could relax a bit between takes, a board was set up for her to lean against. Marlene Dietrich, arriving for a fitting, "quickly peels down, revealing the most beautiful French lingerie I've ever seen, all white, just a touch of lace...
...vehicles for this sort of "scientific advertising," Supersalesman Culligan is making the most of NBC's "hotline" service for handling fast-breaking news. NBC's Stardust series will dot the broadcasting day with brief appearances by big show-business names-Marlene Dietrich, Bob Hope, George Gobel. Analysis Stardust is a projected series that will put top newsmen among the other stars. The Image series (audio documentaries) will be an ambitious collection of documentaries starting with Image: Russia, a 1½-hour-a-night, month-long study of the Soviet Union, "authenticated" by Hearst Columnist Bob Considine...
...help quiet his preperformance jitters and tune up his musical perception, German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau packs his luggage with a few tested literary tranquilizers: some volumes of poetry, selected detective stories, classics such as Crime and Punishment. As he wound up his third U.S. tour last week on the West Coast, nobody thought to ask him whether he was stoking his emotional fires on Donne or Dostoevsky or Dashiell Hammett. What mattered was that he was in top vocal form, and that meant that he was giving his audiences the most moving performances of German lieder to be heard...
With her "vignettes on life and love" now sprinkled over NBC's weekend Monitor, Marlene Dietrich has become radio's newest lovelornist. Meeting newsmen in Manhattan, she offered some samples of her new specialty, e.g., Marlene, who was married at 19, thinks today's "teenagers should not marry because they don't have enough experience." She also explained that she has steadily rebuffed all approaches from TV because "overexposure in any way is bad." Why does she keep going back to Las Vegas? "Money [$30,000 a week]." How does she manage to go on looking...
...thousand city limits with its ubiquitous weekend potpourri Monitor, with on-the-spot newscasts that are signaled by bells ringing coast to coast on its "hot line," with appeals to advertisers to switch from the "Top 40" tunes to NBC's "Top 40" personalities, e.g., Groucho Marx, Marlene Dietrich. NBC's pitch in ads: "If you sell white buckskin shoes and bubble gum, by all means use a jukebox station...