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...same perfunctory way, Fade Out-Fade In gives walk-on-and-off bits of business to actors who play characters recognizable as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple and Bojangles Robinson, the Busby Berkeley chorines, Boris Karloff, Tarzan, Jean Harlow, the Marx Brothers, Garbo, Mae West, and Louella Parsons. Meanwhile, the main show goes down for the long, long count of boredom...
...girls' svelte, springy figures attest, they watch their diets, eat healthier food, and probably take more exercise than any other women in the world. Louella Ballerino, a swimsuit designer for California's Rose Marie Reid, finds that German girls today tend to be skinnier of hip than young Americans and Italians. This "generation of fashion models," as one approving editor calls it, averages 5 ft. 6 in. in the 14-25 age bracket, one inch taller than other European girls, and it boasts unbeatable vital statistics...
...Fourth Annual Edition of More Trash from Mad? Mad or not, he sued. In a section headed "Sing Along with Mad" appeared parodies of numerous popular songs, including some of Berlin's best-known hits. A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody had been transmogrified into Louella Schwartz Describes Her Malady, and The Girl That I Marry into: The horse that I'm betting will have to be A sprinter that wins with consistency...
...look behind you, Louella," Mrs. Henry Wallace warned Mrs. Everett Dirksen. "Someone's wearing the same dress you are." Mrs. Dirksen turned, saw a guest wearing the same pink and white flowered gown and said in mock indignation, "I want my money back...
...entente cordiale did not last, of course-as Hedda makes abundantly clear in a newly released confessional. The Whole Truth and Nothing But (Doubleday, $4.95), which is Hedda's answer to Lolly's Tell It to Louella (TIME, Nov. 24, 1961). Nothing really wrong with Louella, says Hedda, except that she mangles her facts, plays favorites, and through her husband, Dr. Harry ("Docky-Wocky") Martin, used to wangle reports of the results of rabbit tests on the stars' pregnancies, so that Lolly sometimes knew of their delicate condition before the poor girls themselves. Maybe, Hedda hints, Louella...