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...George Gobel Show (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Guest: Lola Albright...
...about 1917, Modigliani's drawing reaches a consistently high standard of draftsmanship. With a few swift and caressing strokes, as in Lola, Modigliani can evoke a lovely girl, sitting at her ease, looking alertly at the viewer. Drawn in the last year of the artist's short, wantonly bohemian life, A Young Man is especially enjoyable for its intricately balanced composition and its artful, linear suggestion of facial volumes...
...Oliver Backstage (Dot LP), Singer-Arranger Oliver converses on Whatever Lola Wants, Seventy-Six Trombones, Grant Avenue, with the air of a man rocking a hammock. The familiar exercises have rarely had more infectious grace...
...Lola has behind her countless different jobs-radio actress, stenographer, switchboard operator, photographic model. She says that she never really wanted to pay the price that Hollywood demands for stardom ("You become everybody's personal property''), but by 1946 she was there, like a thousand others, sitting around on sets, earning little more than the right to join the extras union. She finally landed a meaty role in Champion, with Kirk Douglas and Ruth Roman. The picture, says Lola, "set up Kirk and Ruth. Afterwards. I couldn't get a job. I went to New York...
...Hold at Last. By 1949 Lola was back in Hollywood, still waiting for recognition. She suffered from insomnia, and she was beginning to pick up a reputation as an oddball. "I always liked to do kookie things," she insists, but now, with two unsuccessful marriages and years of unimportant roles behind her, she feels as if she is taking hold. Peter Gunn gave her steady work (though she still lives on vitamin shots and fights insomnia), and the chance to sing gave her a new career. Today, when she walks her dog around her modest Encino home, lonely Lola...