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...written in prose of an inspired spasticity, daily gives her 22,800,000 readers the illusion that they have been behind the sets, the bushes and deep into some of Hollywood's better bed-&-bathrooms. This eminence Columnist Hopper shares (reluctantly) with her rival in revelation, Hearstian Columnist Louella ("Lollipop") Parsons, fat, fiftyish, and fatuous, whose syndicated column reaches some 30,000,000 readers...
...knows she is, and she glories in it. Hedda once suggested on the air that interested listeners might design and send her some nice new hats. She received 65,000-none quite the equal of her latest, by Artist Chaliapin (see COVER). Louella Parsons never had it like that...
Dinner (9:30 p.m.) is only rarely a banquet these days; sometimes there are only W. R. and Marion Davies. Oftener a few regulars show up, like Columnist Louella Parsons, Princess Conchita Sepulveda Pignatelli, society writer of the Los Angeles Examiner. Their host eats heartily (favorite delicacies: cracked crab, pheasant or duck just barely heated), and keeps the table talk on a high plane. Risque stories are out; Hearst recently reprimanded a woman guest who cut loose with a mild "damn." Every night the inevitable movie begins at 11, and bedtime...
...party, danced with Lana Turner. Burbled Lolly Parsons: "[Lana has] known Frank for a long time, but. . . says: 'I am not in love with Frank and he is not in love with me. I have never in my life broken up a home.' " Then, said Louella, Lana wept. At week's end, Frankie was reported cooling off at California's Palm Springs...
Cinemactor Franchot Tone's wife, Jean, publicly pondered a separation. Cozy quote from Jean, by great-hearted Gossipiste Louella Parsons: "It's jealousy. Jealousy is a disease. . . . I can't bear the thought of separating from Franchot, because I love...