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...Epsom Downs on June 4. Rita planned to start work on a new film by the end of the year. Back at the party, Rita sank down next to the old Aga Khan. "Too much caviar, Rita," he murmured, "too much caviar." International News Service's starry-eyed Louella Parsons heaved a final sigh. The groom, she reported, "wearying but still buoyant, dropped on one knee and, with old-world gallantry, kissed her [Rita's] slipper...
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS (1,831 pp.)-John Bartlett-12th Edition Revised & Enlarged by Christopher Morley & Louella D. Everett-Little, Brown...
...years since Boston's John Bartlett first tried to show "the obligations our language owes to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " In 1937, when Editors Christopher Morley and Louella D. Everett put Bartlett's eleventh edition together, they went far beyond the founder's original scheme. They tried "to seize also some of the Mindhold Words . . . which the world hardly yet knows it has absorbed." Consequently, a large proportion of their "Familiar Quotations" were totally unfamiliar to most people, but their Bartlett was not only a useful...
...Angeles, Charlie Chaplin, who will be 60 in April, and fourth wife Oona, 23, were expecting their third child this spring, according to Gossipist Louella Parsons. That would make Charlie's fifth (not counting Joan Berry's daughter, whom he supports but denies...
...Louella meant Antonio (see FOREIGN NEWS...