Word: louella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood's Louella Parsons (Hearst): "When I'm writing movies I think of nothing else. And when I'm writing politics I'd much rather not let any other subject intrude. But the minute any of the convention bigwigs hear my name, they start asking me questions about their screen favorites...
...York Post's Earl Wilson: "Us columnists find we are small potatoes here, and that goes for even the great Louella Parsons of Hollywood. People here actually say, 'Who IS Louella Parsons...
...knew his small towns, with their "Four-Flush Drummers from Chicago and St. Louis, smoking Horrid Cigars and talking about the Percentages of the League Teams." Before World War I thousands quoted the fable of the two sisters, upright Louella whose "Features did not seem to know the value of Team Work" and Mae, "short on Intelligence but long on Shape." Louella worked in a hat factory, and every Saturday night the-boss "crowded three dollars on her." Beautiful Mae married a wheat speculator, moved into a Sarcophagus on the Boulevard, hired Louella for $5 as Assistant Cook. (Moral: Industry...
...Some others, past & present: Mary Pickford, Fanchon Royer, Louella Parsons' daughter Harriet...
Despite this income and prospering Dr. Martin's, the Martins are nearly always broke. Reasons: 1) their intense love of a good time, 2) Louella's fabulous extravagance, 3) her fabulous generosity. The legends about her Christmas harvests are, like many of those told about her, one-sided and often untrue. All gifts in Hollywood are likely to be on the sunny side of munificence, and Louella invariably spends more on gifts than the value she receives. It is the same with parties. Louella and her husband love them and give them often. Sometimes the Martins entertain...